> Your job isn’t to complete tickets that fulfill a list of asks from your product manager. Your job is to build software that solves users problems.

Very important with this, is that not every work place sees your job as that, and you might get hired for the former while you believe it to be the latter. Navigating what is actually expected of you is probably good to try to figure out during the interview, or worst case scenario, on the first day as a new hire.

This is huge advice for people who want to climb a given career ladder.

The overwhelming majority of organizations will say they want you focused on real user problems, but actually want you to make your boss (and their boss) look good. This usually looks more like clearing tasks from a list than creating new goals.

At Google there are both kinds of teams.