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All the resources you need to get to Senior Engineer and beyond
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# Path to Senior Engineer Handbook

This repo has all the resources you need to reach Senior Software Engineer!

## Table of contents

- [Newsletters](#newsletters)
- [Books](#books)
- [Courses](#courses)
- [Papers](#papers)
- [YouTube](#youtube)
- [Podcasts](#podcasts)
- [Communities](#communities)
- [LinkedIn](#linkedin)
- [Platforms](#platforms)
- [Other catalogs](#other-catalogs)

## Newsletters

### General software engineer growth

- [High Growth Engineer](https://read.highgrowthengineer.com/)
- [The Developing Dev](https://open.substack.com/pub/ryanlpeterman)
- [Level up software engineering](https://open.substack.com/pub/levelupsoftwareengineering)
- [Engineer’s Codex](https://open.substack.com/pub/engineercodex)
- [Coding Challenges](https://open.substack.com/pub/codingchallenges)
- [EcZachly Data Engineering Newsletter](https://open.substack.com/pub/eczachly)
- [Techlead Mentor](https://open.substack.com/pub/ravirajachar)
- [The Caring Techie](https://open.substack.com/pub/thecaringtechie)
- [Refactoring](https://open.substack.com/pub/refactoring)
- [Strategize Your Career](https://open.substack.com/pub/strategizeyourcareer)
- [Saiyan Growth Letter](https://open.substack.com/pub/tigerabrodi)
- [Software Design: Tidy First?](https://open.substack.com/pub/tidyfirst)
- [Dev Interrupted](https://open.substack.com/users/89759436-dev-interrupted)
- [Exaltitude Career Growth](https://www.exaltitude.io/newsletter)
- [A Life Engineered](https://newsletter.alifeengineered.com/)

### Staying up-to-date

- [The Pragmatic Engineer](https://open.substack.com/pub/pragmaticengineer)
- [TLDR](https://tldr.tech/)
- [Pointer.io](https://www.pointer.io/)
- [Changelog News](https://changelog.com/news)
- [Hungry Minds](https://hungryminds.dev/)

### Frameworks and smart thinking

- [Wes Kao's Newsletter](https://open.substack.com/pub/weskao)
- [Alex Brogan frameworks](https://www.alexbrogan.com/)

### System design

- [System Design Newsletter](https://open.substack.com/pub/systemdesignone)
- [Quastor](https://blog.quastor.org/)
- [ByteByteGo Newsletter](https://open.substack.com/pub/bytebytego)
- [Byte-Sized Design](https://open.substack.com/users/134878169-byte-sized-design?utm_source=mentions)
- [The Polymathic Engineer](https://open.substack.com/pub/francofernando)

### Reliability engineering

- [SRE Weekly](https://sreweekly.com/)
- [Platform Engineering Weekly](https://www.platformengineeringweekly.com/)
- [Alex Ewerlöf Notes/SRE](https://blog.alexewerlof.com/s/sre)

### Leadership

- [The Hybrid Hacker](https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridhacker)
- [Leading Developers](https://open.substack.com/pub/zaidesanton)
- [Engineering Leadership](https://open.substack.com/pub/gregorojstersek)
- [Addy Osmani](https://addyosmani.com/blog/) ([RSS Link](https://addyosmani.com/feed.xml))
- [Irrational Exuberance](https://lethain.com/newsletter/)
- [Leadership Letters](https://www.leadership-letters.com)

### Web-dev specific

- [TLDR Web Dev](https://tldr.tech/webdev)
- [Frontend Focus](https://frontendfocus.substack.com/)
- [Frontend Engineering](https://frontendengineering.substack.com/)
- [Smashing Magazine](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-smashing-newsletter/)
- [Kent C Dodds](https://kentcdodds.com/blog)
- [Josh Comeau](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/tutorials/) ([RSS Link](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/rss.xml))
- [Friday Front-end](https://fridayfrontend.curated.co/)
- [CSS Weekly](https://css-weekly.com/)
- [Bytes.dev](https://bytes.dev/)

## Books

### Communication, writing, relationships

- [Crucial conversations](https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes-ebook/dp/B093Y3N433)
- [Smart Brevity](https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Brevity-Power-Saying-More-ebook/dp/B09TGMK8G6)
- [The Fine Art of Small Talk](https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Art-Small-Talk-Conversation-ebook/dp/B0BY2K9KL2)
- [92 ways to talk to anyone](https://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Anyone-Success-Relationships-ebook/dp/B000SEI4V0)
- [Connect: Building exceptional relationships with family, friends, and colleagues](https://www.amazon.com/Connect-Building-Exceptional-Relationships-Colleagues-ebook/dp/B0894279WZ)
- [What got you here won’t get you there](https://www.amazon.com/What-Here-There-Marshall-Goldsmith/dp/B09Z2YY2BX)
- [Communication for Engineers](https://www.amazon.com/Communication-Engineers-developers-communicators-productivity-ebook/dp/B08W8MJNF8)
- [Thanks for the Feedback](https://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-Well-ebook/dp/B00DMCV0XE)
- [Just Listen: Discover the secret to getting through to absolutely anyone](https://www.amazon.com/Just-Listen-Discover-Getting-Absolutely-ebook/dp/B00TRF2LJW)
- [Simply Said: Communicating better at work and beyond](https://www.amazon.com/Simply-Said-Communicating-Better-Beyond-ebook/dp/B01M7SGOHF)
- [Crucial influence](https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Influence-Third-Leadership-Behavior-ebook/dp/B0BNW8Y18Z)
- [Radical candor](https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Revised-Kick-Ass-Humanity-ebook/dp/B07P9LPXPT)
- [Engineering management for the rest of us](https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Management-Rest-Sarah-Drasner-ebook/dp/B0BGYVDX35)
- [Crucial accountability](https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Accountability-Resolving-Expectations-Commitments-ebook/dp/B00C4BDRW6)
- [It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences](https://www.amazon.com/Was-Best-Sentences-Worst-Crafting-ebook/dp/B0036S4AX6)
- [On writing well](https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-Classic-Guide-Nonfiction/dp/0060891548)
- [The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing](https://www.amazon.com/Insiders-Guide-Technical-Writing-ebook/dp/B09X2CHHB1)

### Storytelling

- [Storyworthy](https://www.amazon.com/Storyworthy-Engage-Persuade-through-Storytelling-ebook/dp/B07CV2PFYJ)

### Career growth and promotions

- [Omar Halabieh 90-day career blueprint](https://www.omarhalabieh.com/90-day-career-blueprint/)
- [Get Promoted](https://www.amazon.com/Get-Promoted-Really-Missing-Holding-ebook/dp/B09WGJVR4Z)
- [StaffEng.com – Stories of reaching Staff-plus engineering roles](https://staffeng.com/)

### Engineering

- [A philosophy of software design](https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Software-Design-2nd-ebook/dp/B09B8LFKQL)
- [Web scalability for startup engineers](https://www.amazon.com/Scalability-Startup-Engineers-Artur-Ejsmont/dp/0071843655)
- [Collection - Grady Booch, Software architecture/design books](https://handbookofsoftwarearchitecture.com/books/)

### Software engineer overall

- [Software Engineer's Guidebook](https://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineers-Guidebook-Navigating-positions/dp/908338182X)
- [Engineers Survival Guide](https://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Survival-Guide-Facebook-Microsoft/dp/B09MBZBGFK)
- [The Coding Career Handbook](https://learninpublic.org/)
- [Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219483)

### System design

- [Front End System Design Guidebook](https://www.greatfrontend.com/system-design)
- [Awesome Front End System Design](https://github.com/greatfrontend/awesome-front-end-system-design)
- [The System Design Primer](https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer)

### Leadership

- [The Manager’s Path](https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth-ebook/dp/B06XP3GJ7F)
- [Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track](https://www.amazon.com/Staff-Engineer-Leadership-beyond-management-ebook/dp/B08RMSHYGG)
- [The Staff Engineer’s Path](https://www.amazon.com/Staff-Engineers-Path-Individual-Contributors/dp/1098118731)
- [The Coaching Habit](https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Habit-Less-Change-Forever-ebook/dp/B01BUIBBZI)
- [The Advice Trap](https://www.amazon.com/Advice-Trap-Humble-Curious-Forever-ebook/dp/B083YZTW4B)
- [The making of a manager](https://www.amazon.com/Making-Manager-What-Everyone-Looks-ebook/dp/B079WNPRL2)
- [Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager: How to Be the Leader Your Development Team Need](https://www.amazon.com/Become-Effective-Software-Engineering-Manager/dp/1680507249)

### Persuasion and influence

- [Influence: The psychology of persuasion](https://www.amazon.com/Influence-New-Expanded-Psychology-Persuasion-ebook/dp/B08HZ57WYN)
- [Yes - 50 scientifically proven ways to be persuasive](https://www.amazon.com/Yes-Scientifically-Proven-Ways-Persuasive-ebook/dp/B001F51X64)

### Productivity

- [The productivity project](https://www.amazon.com/Productivity-Project-Accomplishing-Managing-Attention-ebook/dp/B00Z3G239W)
- [Make time](https://www.amazon.com/Make-Time-Focus-Matters-Every-ebook/dp/B078QSCM3V)

### User experience

- [Don’t make me think](https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515)
- [Refactoring UI](https://www.refactoringui.com/)

### Thinking smarter

- [Clear thinking](https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Thinking-Turning-Ordinary-Extraordinary-ebook/dp/B0BRMPJ8DR)
- [Thinking fast and slow](https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman-ebook/dp/B00555X8OA)
- [Super thinking: The big book of mental models](https://www.amazon.com/Super-Thinking-Book-Mental-Models-ebook/dp/B07P8J83WR)
- [The art of thinking clearly](https://www.amazon.com/Art-Thinking-Clearly-Rolf-Dobelli-ebook/dp/B00IZP6EVQ)
- [Thinking in systems](https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows-ebook/dp/B005VSRFEA)

## Courses

### Top courses

- [Mid-level to Senior Course by Jordan Cutler](https://maven.com/jordan-cutler/mid-level-to-senior?promoCode=PATHTOSENIORHANDBOOK)
- [Speedrun to Promotion by Steve Huynh](https://speedruntopromotion.com/)
- [Josh Comeau CSS course](https://css-for-js.dev/)
- [Josh Comeau React course](https://www.joyofreact.com/)
- [Kent C Dodds Epic React](https://epicreact.dev/)
- [Kent C Dodds Epic Web](https://www.epicweb.dev/)
- [Bob Ziroll Learn React for Free](https://scrimba.com/learn/learnreact)
- [Google Technical Writing](https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/overview)

### Recommended websites

- [Frontendmasters subscription](https://frontendmasters.com/)
- [Udemy courses](https://www.udemy.com/)
- [Educative subscription](https://www.educative.io/)
- [Pluralsight courses](https://www.pluralsight.com/)
- [Udacity courses](https://www.udacity.com/)
- [Coursera courses](https://www.coursera.org/)
- [LinkedIn Learning](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/)
- [Future Learn](https://www.futurelearn.com/subjects/it-and-computer-science-courses)
- [edX](https://www.edx.org/)
- [Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/)
- [GreatFrontEnd](https://www.greatfrontend.com/)
- [Scrimba interactive courses](https://scrimba.com)
- [KodeKloud](https://www.kodekloud.com)
- [Hyperskill](https://hyperskill.org/tracks)

## Papers

- [Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store](https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf)
- [MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf)
- [The Google File System](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf)
- [Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf)
- [Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi12/osdi12-final-16.pdf)
- [Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf)

## YouTube

### Broad news and opinions in tech

- [Theo - t3.gg](https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg)
- [Fireship](https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship)
- [ThePrimeTime / Primeagen](https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen)

### Senior+ soft skills

- [A Life Engineered - Steve Huynh](https://www.youtube.com/@ALifeEngineered)
- [Exaltitude Career Growth](https://www.youtube.com/@exaltitude)
- [LeadDev](https://www.youtube.com/@LeadDev/videos)
- [Lenny’s Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@LennysPodcast)
- [Charisma on Command](https://www.youtube.com/@Charismaoncommand)

### Frontend/CSS tips and tricks

- [Kevin Powell](https://www.youtube.com/@KevinPowell)
- [Web Dev Simplified](https://www.youtube.com/@WebDevSimplified)
- [Matt Pocock (Typescript)](https://www.youtube.com/@mattpocockuk)
- [Sam Selikoff](https://www.youtube.com/@samselikoff)

### Productivity, side income, and personal growth

- [Ali Abdaal](https://www.youtube.com/@aliabdaal)
- [Jeff Su](https://www.youtube.com/@JeffSu)
- [Thomas Frank](https://www.youtube.com/@Thomasfrank)
- [Matt D’Avella](https://www.youtube.com/@mattdavella)
- [Clark Kegley](https://www.youtube.com/@clarkkegley)

## Podcasts

- [Soft skills Podcast](https://softskills.audio/)
- [Staff Eng Podcast](https://podcast.staffeng.com/)
- [Frontend First Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@frontendfirst)
- [The Changelog Podcast](https://changelog.fm)
- [The Scrimba Podcast](https://scrimba.com/podcast/)
- [Developing Leadership](https://www.developingleadership.co/)
- [John Maxwell Leadership Podcast](https://johnmaxwellleadershippodcast.com/)

## Communities

- [Taro](https://www.jointaro.com/)
- [Exaltitude Engineering Leadership Community](https://www.exaltitude.io/)
- [Small Bets Community](https://dvassallo.gumroad.com/l/small-bets)
- [GreatFrontend](https://discord.gg/NDFx8f6P6B)
- [Theo - T3](https://discord.com/invite/xHdCpcPHRE)
- [Frontend Mentor](https://www.frontendmentor.io/)
- [Kent C. Dodds Discord Community](https://kentcdodds.com/discord)
- [Tiger Abrodi's Little Software Planet](https://littlesoftwareplanet.com/community)
- [Changelog Community](https://changelog.com/community)
- [Scrimba Discord Community](https://scrimba.com/community)
- [ladderly.io](https://ladderly.io/)
- [Rands Leadership Community (Slack)](https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/)

## LinkedIn

- [Jordan Cutler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordancutler1/)
- [Gregor Ojstersek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorojstersek/)
- [Gergely Orosz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gergelyorosz/)
- [Nicola Ballotta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolaballotta/)
- [Alex Chiou](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-chiou/)
- [Rahul Pandey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpandey1234/)
- [Caleb Mellas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebmellas/)
- [John Crickett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncrickett/)
- [Ryan Peterman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/)
- [Alex Xu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexxubyte/)
- [Zach Wilson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eczachly/)
- [Wes Kao](https://www.linkedin.com/in/weskao/)
- [Omar Halabieh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarhalabieh/)
- [Raviraj Achar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravirajachar/)
- [Irina Stanescu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/irinastanescu/)
- [Richard Donovan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-donovan/)
- [Luca Rossi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaronin/)
- [Anton Zaides](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-zaides/)
- [Neo Kim](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nk-systemdesign-one/)
- [Dallon Asnes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dallonasnes/)
- [Tiger Abrodi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiger-abrodi/)
- [Daniel Moka](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmoka/)
- [Mads Brodt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/madsbrodt/)
- [James Willett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/willettjames/)
- [Anemari Fiser](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anemari-fiser/)
- [Mike Thornton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/devdetails/)
- [Dariusz Sadowski](https://www.linkedin.com/in/darsadowski/)
- [Adrian Stanek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianstanek/)
- [Steven Syrek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-syrek/)
- [Doug Howard](https://www.linkedin.com/in/doughowardcoaching/)
- [Casey Dai](https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseydai/)
- [Petar Ivanov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/petarivanovv9/)
- [Alex Kliotzkin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-kliotzkin/)
- [Nordine Hadi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nordinehadi/)
- [Yangshun Tay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yangshun/)
- [David Anderson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scarletink/)
- [Alexandre Zajac](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-zajac/)
- [Jean Lee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanklee/)
- [Akash Mukherjee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akashmuk/)

## Platforms

### Interview prep

#### Coding
- [LeetCode](https://www.leetcode.com)
- [NeetCode](https://www.neetcode.io)
- [PyPup](https://www.pypup.com)
- [Codemia](https://codemia.io)

#### Mock interviews
- [Pramp](https://www.pramp.com)
- [Hello Interview](https://www.hellointerview.com)
- [Interviewing IO](https://www.interviewing.io)
- [IGotAnOffer](https://www.igotanoffer.com)
- [MeetAPro](https://www.meetapro.com)

## Other catalogs

- [Software Engineer's Library](https://kevinsmith.io/library/)
- [16x Engineer](https://16x.engineer/)