Can You Reach Senior Databricks Engineer Without Ever Leading an Architecture Review?

Sam is four years into a Databricks role, up for senior this cycle. Merged pull requests on the ingestion layer. The nightly job he rescued at three in the morning when the orders table stopped landing. Then his manager asks for one call where the answer wasn't obvious, he framed it, and he lived with the result. Sam starts three different sentences. None of them finish.

The packet is full of work and empty of decisions. Sam thinks what he's missing is a chair at the architecture review table. It isn't.

In this episode:
- What the architecture review was ever supposed to prove, and why the…