Cohort-based Course
🔨 Nail the 5 key areas you need to get to the senior level
Cohort-based Course
🔨 Nail the 5 key areas you need to get to the senior level
Course overview
Course Outcomes
- Lead your projects without all the stress.
- Become an expert on your team so others look up to you.
- Get your manager to want to advocate for your promotion.
- Mentor others to level up your team.
- Bonus module: Level up your coding skills to write senior-level code.
Course Syllabus
Leading projects
- How to write design docs that influence change.
- How to master the art of estimates so you never miss (and handle when you do).
- How to communicate so others will listen.
- Templates: Technical design doc templates, 1-pager template, Project leadership checklist.
- Exercises: Get feedback on your design doc, Break down an ambiguous problem statement into an estimate.
Become an expert on your team
- How to become known as an expert on your team.
- How to bring new ideas and tech to the team.
- How to stay up to date in your ownership area.
- Templates: Become an expert template.
- Exercises: Find out your expertise area, build a plan for becoming known as the expert.
Get your manager to want to advocate for you
- Understanding your manager better and aligning your goals.
- Maximize your chances of being promoted.
- Know how to frame your promotion so your manager wants to promote you.
- Templates: Growth plan template, performance review template, 1:1 template
- Exercises: Live performance review feedback, actionable plan to build a better relationship with your manager.
Mentor others on your team
- Good vs. bad mentorship.
- How to find people to mentor.
- How to level up your team.
- Templates: 1:1 template, growth plan template, mentorship checklist.
- Exercises: Live mentoring & feedback, find out who to mentor.
Senior-level code (Bonus module)
- Mid-level vs. Senior code.
- Senior-level coding mindset.
- Getting your code approved instantly.
- Exercises: Give live feedback on why one piece of code is better or worse.
- Bonus resources: Personally curated books and videos to get even more.
Format
- Highly interactive presentations and demos.
- Office hours for more direct time and personalized answers.
- Templates to take with you to reference in your day-to-day.
Sessions are recorded and always accessible.
01
You're a mid-level software engineer and want a step-by-step walkthrough of what you need to get to Senior Engineer.
02
You're a senior software engineer and want to hone your skills with live, interactive sessions and templates to help you grow even further.
03
You're a junior software engineer and you want to get ahead in your career with everything you need to know to get to Senior Engineer.
Learn how to lead projects like a senior, estimate effectively, and manage stakeholder relationships.
We'll do this by breaking down an ambiguous problem statement, turning it into a design doc, and going through our project leadership checklist.
Learn how to become seen as an expert within your team, leading to tons of opportunities for growth and promotion.
We'll do this by finding out the best area for you to be an expert in, then building a plan for you to start becoming known as the expert on your team.
Learn how to build trust with your manager and make them want to advocate for your promotion to senior.
We'll do this by aligning you and your manager's goals, then building a growth plan and performance review doc that makes it easy for your manager to advocate for you.
Learn how to find mentees within your company and how to make them love your mentorship.
We'll do this by showing the different types of mentorship, which approaches work best, and how to mentor using that approach.
Learn the biggest differentiators that will get you writing code like a senior, allow you to ship faster, and get your code approved right away.
We'll do this by going through live code examples, discussing the decisions to make, what to think about, and sharing live feedback.
Mid-level to Senior for high-growth engineers
Week 1
Week 1
Dec 5—Dec 10
Events
Wed, Dec 6, 1:00 AM - 2:30 AM UTC
Wed, Dec 6, 2:30 AM - 3:30 AM UTC
Fri, Dec 8, 1:00 AM - 2:30 AM UTC
Fri, Dec 8, 2:30 AM - 3:30 AM UTC
Modules
Week 2
Week 2
Dec 11—Dec 17
Events
Wed, Dec 13, 1:00 AM - 2:30 AM UTC
Wed, Dec 13, 2:30 AM - 3:30 AM UTC
Fri, Dec 15, 1:00 AM - 2:30 AM UTC
Fri, Dec 15, 2:30 AM - 3:30 AM UTC
Modules
Week 3
Week 3
Dec 18—Dec 20
Events
Wed, Dec 20, 1:00 AM - 2:30 AM UTC
Wed, Dec 20, 2:30 AM - 3:30 AM UTC
Modules
Bonus module for those interested in senior-level coding practices
Matt Herwig
Weily Lang
Maroof Haque
Jian Kuang
Dean Wahle
Elena Giuli
Alex Chiou
Senior Software Engineer, Author of High Growth Engineer (25k+ readers)
Jordan loves seeing engineers grow and achieve their goals.
He's obsessed with personal growth and spends most of his time learning how to become a better engineer.
He's excited to be giving this course, which takes the most important lessons he's learned through his journey to Senior Engineer in just 2 years and passes them onto you.
5:00pm - 6:30pm PST
8:00pm - 9:30pm EST
6:30pm - 7:30pm PST
9:30pm - 10:30pm EST
If you have additional questions after the session, I'll stick around for an hour afterward to ensure you know how to move forward.
Sessions will be recorded
You'll receive a summary, recording, and templates to take with you.
5:00 pm - 6:30pm PST
8:00pm - 9:30pm EST
Office hours for 1 hour afterward.
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You'll walk away knowing exactly how to move forward in your career
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you