Path to Staff Engineer

Turn Chaotic Reviews Into Clear Decisions

The write-then-meet framework for running great technical reviews

Jan 10 • Sidwyn Koh

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December 2025

Make Hard Choices Easy to Understand

Clarify tradeoffs with one simple trick

Dec 21, 2025 • Sidwyn Koh

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Mastering Communication (Part 1 of 4)

How to Deliver Value Every Time

Dec 13, 2025 • Sidwyn Koh

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November 2025

Growth Takes Time

What you can do today if your career stalls

Nov 29, 2025 • Sidwyn Koh

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The Art of Framing Discussions

How to make every discussion feel like progress

Nov 2, 2025 • Sidwyn Koh

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September 2025

Leveraging CARL Method in Behavioral Interviews

How to crush your next behavioral interview

Sep 20, 2025 • Sidwyn Koh and Austen McDonald

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An Engineer's Guide to Influence (Part Two)

Six concrete tips on how to turn your ideas into reality

Sep 13, 2025 • Sidwyn Koh

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An Engineer's Guide to Influence (Part One)

How to turn your ideas into reality – even without authority

Sep 6, 2025 • Sidwyn Koh

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August 2025

Playing The Long Game (Deb Liu, ex-Facebook VP & Ancestry CEO)

Lessons from six years without a promotion, raising three kids, and surviving cancer.

Aug 23, 2025 • Sidwyn Koh and Deb Liu

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Your STAR Method Is Broken (Principal Solutions Architect, AWS)

What great candidates do differently when interviewing

Aug 16, 2025 • Sidwyn Koh and Prasad Rao

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Project Prioritization Framework (What Should I Work On?)

A simple yet useful framework to rank projects

Aug 9, 2025 • Sidwyn Koh

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Work-Life Balance Accelerates Careers

Working less each week can accelerate your career. If you're smart about it.

Published on Molochinations • Aug 2, 2025