Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 19 hours ago
In this panel, Rukmini Reddy(SVPE at Slack), Jeremy Rishel (CTO at Sofi) and Ian Nowland (ex-SVPE at Datadog) discuss their experiences and provide actionable advice on career advancement in the engineering field.
They elaborate their own process and philosophy about promotions, sharing real-life stories of successful promotions, and addressing key concepts like sustained impact, strategic alignment, continuous feedback and the power of constructive disagreement in leadership roles. The discussion concludes with them sharing practical advice for aspiring leaders to implement in the workplace.
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This talk was recorded at Elevate 2023, Plato's flagship engineering leadership conference hosted in San Francisco on Nov 7 and 8 2023.
In this panel, Rukmini Reddy(SVPE at Slack), Jeremy Rishel (CTO at Sofi) and Ian Nowland (ex-SVPE at Datadog) discuss their experiences and provide actionable advice on career advancement in the engineering field.
They elaborate their own process and philosophy about promotions, sharing real-life stories of successful promotions, and addressing key concepts like sustained impact, strategic alignment, continuous feedback and the power of constructive disagreement in leadership roles. The discussion concludes with them sharing practical advice for aspiring leaders to implement in the workplace.
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This talk was recorded at Elevate 2023, Plato's flagship engineering leadership conference hosted in San Francisco on Nov 7 and 8 2023.
