The most effective engineers — the ones who have risen to become distinguished engineers and leaders at their companies — can produce 10 times the impact of other engineers, but they're not working 10 times the hours.

Key takeaways

• Analyze what is the most impactful thing you can do, and focus on doing it
• Tips on onboarding and investing in your team's longer-term growth
• Effective methods and best practice for improving on automation, measurement, iteration time and learning tools
• Costly mistakes effective engineers know to avoid and frameworks to improve your processes and use of time