Swizec Teller - Senior Software Engineer at Tia
Junior to Senior with David Guttman
English - September 27, 2021 16:00 - 40 minutes - 91.9 MBTechnology Business Careers technology javascript programming web development career Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Talking Points:
Difference between Senior and Junior engineerWays to gain experience quicklyCareer paths10x engineersSetting up the right mindsetQuotable Quotes:
"You can have one year of experience five times or you can actually have five years of experience" - ST"The more Junior somebody is, the more obsessed they are with their code following some sort of textbook perfection" - ST"The more Senior people tend to focus on is delivering value" - ST"The real art of engineering, specially in software, is how you respond to those evolving requirements, that's where most of the experience comes from" - ST"Going to a product-focused startup is a really good way to rapidly learn a lot of things" - ST"The actual titles aren't that important, they don't translate that well between different companies" - ST"At some point you become so good that writing the code yourself is a waste of your time" - ST"It doesn't matter how good of an engineer or a coder you are, a team of five people is always going to outcode you no matter what" - ST"Figuring out ways to get the same benefit without building the feature" - DG"Find people who have done that and talk to them" - ST"Having much more the consultant mindset rather than an employee mindset" - DG"If you are a developer, you have a superpower" - DGNotes:
Swizec's blog
Swizec's twitter
Senior mindset
So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
https://www.calnewport.com/books/so-good/
Junior to Senior Community
community.juniortosenior.io