Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)

2025-12-08 · 53 min · 16 entities

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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://developing.dev/
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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://developing.dev/p/instagram-senior-staff-eng-ic7-on
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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://youtu.be/OXJHfb_lZII
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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://threads.com/@marius.schulz
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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://developing.dev/
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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://threads.com/@ryanlpeterman
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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://developing.dev/p/instagram-senior-staff-eng-ic7-on
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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://mariusschulz.com/
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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://developing.dev/
references @Ryanlpeterman website

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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman
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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://developing.dev/p/instagram-senior-staff-eng-ic7-on
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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://threads.com/@marius.schulz
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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://mariusschulz.com/

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Link in episode "Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)": https://youtu.be/OXJHfb_lZII
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Marius Schulz grew to a Senior Staff Engineer (IC7) at Instagram by redefining expectations three times (once for each promotion). We talked through each promotion and how he did it. There were also interesting learnings from when his promotion got blocked once even though he greatly exceeded expectations. 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀: • Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/instagram-senior-staff-eng-ic7-on • YouTube: https://youtu.be/OXJHfb_lZII • Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀: 00:00 - Intro 00:55 - Choosing his specialty 02:29 - Greatly exceeding expectations with no promo 08:04 - Senior promo 15:30 - Staff promo 24:43 - Leverage and IC4/5/6 way of solving problems 29:51 - Senior staff promo 44:29 - Career planning past IC7 47:32 - Did IC7+ expectations scare him 49:49 - Advice for his younger self 52:29 - Outro 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusschulz/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/mariusschulz/ • Threads: https://www.threads.com/@marius.schulz • Personal Website: https://mariusschulz.com/ 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻: • Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/ • Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlpeterman • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman