Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story) ย
Podcast: The Peterman PodPublished On: Mon Dec 08 2025
Description: 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.๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ธ๐:โข Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/instagram-senior-staff-eng-ic7-onโข YouTube: https://youtu.be/OXJHfb_lZIIโข Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835๐ง๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฝ๐:00:00 - Intro00:55 - Choosing his specialty02:29 - Greatly exceeding expectations with no promo08:04 - Senior promo15:30 - Staff promo24:43 - Leverage and IC4/5/6 way of solving problems29:51 - Senior staff promo44:29 - Career planning past IC747:32 - Did IC7+ expectations scare him49:49 - Advice for his younger self52:29 - Outro๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐:โข LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusschulz/โข X/Twitter: https://x.com/mariusschulz/โข Threads: https://www.threads.com/@marius.schulzโข Personal Website: https://mariusschulz.com/๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ป:โข Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/โข X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpetermanโข LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/โข Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpetermanโข Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlpetermanโข TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman
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