Certainly not a career suicide. Sharpen the saw, build things you can showcase, and have a good story to tell when you want to get back to work next year. Enjoy the time off.
Add a "summary" section at the top summarizing 3-5 key accomplishments in your career quantifying them as much as possible. If you don't capture the readers attention with that, doesn't matter how many pages you have. That's your superbowl ad.
This post is as good as "new study finds cholesterol causes heart disease". We know that LinkedIn endorsements are only as good as the person looking at them. In the new UI, LinkedIn highlights endorsements from "people that are highly skilled at this", which, in my observations so far, is fairly reasonable. In my mind endorsements only matter when they come from people that I trust. I'll take highly skilled at this with a grain of salt, but that's a lot better than endorsements from random people. I don't know anyone that hires engineers based on endorsements.
It's not typical.. here's what you should expect from PM:
- Align with the CEO / business goals and prioritize accordingly. Every feature should map to a top level business theme you're trying to accomplish.
- They may not be involved in hiring, but they should provide clarity on the product side and inspire the team on company vision and how it positively impacts users and customers.
- As an engineer you can / should ask questions and hold them accountable.. "what are our filters for selecting features?", "why are we building this feature and how does it map to our business goals?", etc.
Great point. Every "feature" is a bet, based on the vision and values in the post. It can have 3 outcomes: worked perfectly as expected, worked in ways that we didn't expect, or just failed. So you lean from it and decide whether to keep it, tweak it, and remove it.
