How to Navigate a Reorg as a Senior Engineer
Reorgs are one of the most reliably destabilizing events in an engineer’s career — not because they are usually catastrophic, but because the uncertainty they create is difficult to think clearly through. You don’t know who your manager will be. You don’t know whether your team will stay together. You don’t know whether the project you’ve been leading for six months still matters. Most engineers respond to that uncertainty by waiting for clarity. The engineers who come out of reorgs in better shape are the ones who move toward clarity rather than waiting for it to arrive. ...