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Building A Career In Tech As A Newbie

Gift Egwuenu on July 13, 2019

Originally posted on my blog Introduction The tech industry is ever evolving, what this means is the industry is growing rapidly and th...

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Warren Parad • Oct 6 '19

This article is awesome, and also highlights to the catch-22 of learning. You have to already know about dev.to and the community to get these insights. This is really a message senior engineers need to understand and help new juniors ho find their way.

They probably have never heard of stack overflow, or dev.to, or any of those awesome resources that you've been using. The first step is for you to share these fountains of knowledge so that they can grow quickly into the best engineers.

This is where "team" becomes really important. Having someone sit by themselves won't result in a success. You need a team working together to help educate and coach juniors. How to pull that new person into your process? How do you onboard? And even after they are "onboarded" how do you know they are being successful? Perhaps you are a great manager and team lead, and you have the perfect strategy for that, but likely everyone can use some help here. You need to find your tools to be helpful:

Alignment (How to make sure everyone knows what's happening in the business and the team, and why)
work tracking (What is currently being worked on, and what is the state)
overall team happiness and engagement (Do you know if someone feels unsupported in the team?)
feedback loops (How do you know when there is a problem, and get insight on how to fix it)

These are the most important.

You should have a tool that helps with each one of them, ideally you lean on the industry to support you in everyone's growth.

Carlos Caballero • Jul 13 '19

Good reflexion!

Thanks!

Patrick • Dec 6 '19

Appreciate your article.
I started an online video course just recently (September) and and wasn't as exciting as i thought so i thought i should read on the process on how to become a developer. Then and there i found that i needed a community, but without friends around me in the tech world i joined forloop and dev.io and still haven't attended any event till this day and i intend to soon. I really need an online community to interact with on this journey, moving alone is difficult for me. Help