I think actually what being an IC across this past year has taught me, is that it actually just gave me a lot of skills that I don't think I would've gained if I was just managing throughout this year.

— Jenny Wen, Lenny's Podcast interview. Wen left a director role at Figma to return to IC design work at Anthropic.

Posted 9th March 2026 at 6:50 am

Recent articles