One interesting heuristic for promoting engineers or making "more-senior" hires for me has been:
1. Curiosity and interest in new tech, so they are keeping abreast of developments and can think of modern best practices where useful.
2. Ability to ignore the new/sexy bits when it comes to implementation decisions, because the trade-off for stability/speed to implement is necessary in a growing company.
1. Curiosity and interest in new tech, so they are keeping abreast of developments and can think of modern best practices where useful.
2. Ability to ignore the new/sexy bits when it comes to implementation decisions, because the trade-off for stability/speed to implement is necessary in a growing company.