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Career Growth Speed, Deconstructed

Carlos Arguelles
Geek Culture
Published in
10 min readApr 10, 2022

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My managers mattered

Compensation mattered

Long hours* didn’t matter

Sponsorship and Freedom mattered

Role models matter

Sometimes, everything just lines up

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Carlos Arguelles
Carlos Arguelles

Written by Carlos Arguelles

Hi! I'm a Senior Principal Engineer (L8) at Amazon. In the last 26 years, I've worked at Google and Microsoft as well.

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