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Hi, everyone, hope everyone is doing great.I will be short on this one. I have 5 YOE, 4 of these at my current company (not a FAANG, huge brazilian tech unicorn). Fortunatelly, I've always been good at problem solving in these years. Not saying that I'm amazing, not at all, I mean that I've always managed to reach to someone that could have been in similar situation, googled a lot, learned a new paradygm that could fix what I had to fix and so on...This semester I just got promoted to Staff SWE, kind of prematurelly, but I wouldn't say no to the challenge. Just like before, in my sub area at the company, I design business solutions along with Product Managers, help the trbie squads to improve code quality, review their code in a productive way that could help our area to grow etc.But sometimes, specially speaking to another staff engineers, they can easilly talk about very low level specifics like network problems, ssl, low level http, sql transaction scopes etc. I've been troubled by that before, I remember reading a lot of articles, feeling a little bit more comfortable with some concepts, however, as I don't apply it on daily basis, I just forget about it, at least at some level.How do people keep their knowledge on this level sharp? Should I really be worried about it?
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