From IC to CEO: Software Engineer Career Development

Level-up your software engineer career development through other professionals’ stories: meet Max Rudman, CEO of Prodly, who went from IC to CEO over the years and has even founded a startup of his own. He shares interesting details about his career development and gives valuable advice to people interested in a similar path.

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In this interview we're covering:

• Max’s career development
• Skills for software engineering career development
• Choosing between different opportunities 
• Is being CEO for everyone?
• Advice for aspiring managers
• Advice for aspiring founders
• Challenges of CEOs
• Legacy aims

Excerpt from the interview:

"Both in entrepreneurship and product management, you have to say no to a lot more things than you say yes to. How to decide between a yes and a no boils down to what you’re focusing on: what kind of customers you’re serving or what problems you’re trying to solve. Based on this, you can differentiate between opportunities and see what would make your solution stand out in the market. At the beginning of the founding journey, your resources are usually very limited, so you’ll have to be very picky about what you say yes to."

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