Good Developer. Stuck Career.

Good Developer. Stuck Career.

You can be good at your job and still go nowhere.

In tech, promotions don’t stall because developers aren’t working hard enough. They stall because expectations change quietly, visibility becomes misunderstood, and no one explains what actually matters at the next level.

This book breaks down how promotions really work in software development, from junior to senior, into leadership, and beyond.

Inside, you’ll learn:

• Why performance eventually stops being enough
• The difference between acting at the next level and doing free work
• How expectations change as you move from junior to senior to lead
• How to talk about promotion without sounding entitled
• How to tell when patience has turned into wasted time
• When leaving is not failure, but the right move

This is not a hustle book.
It’s not a checklist.
And it won’t promise you a title.

It’s a clear, practical look at how tech careers actually work, written for developers who want clarity rather than corporate nonsense.

Format: PDF
Length: ~99 pages
Audience: Software developers, senior engineers, tech leads