The Databricks Data Engineer

Why senior Databricks engineers write less code than mid-level ones

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Two engineers, same team, both five years in. Last quarter Mark shipped forty-seven pull requests across three pipelines. Sam shipped nine. On any dashboard, Mark wins by a mile. Sam got the staff offer. Mark got a kind note about continuing to demonstrate impact.

This isn't politics, and it isn't luck. It's a pattern that specifically catches the engineers who are best at shipping, because the…