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Ridhi Singla
Ridhi Singla

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8 tips on how to quickly grow and get promoted at your job as a Software Engineer 🔥

1️⃣ Deliverable

Whatever you are assigned, do them properly and complete them on time.

If they are taking longer than the planned time, raise this point in your scrum to your team, your lead, and your manager.

Needless to say, Deliver quality results

2️⃣ Communication

Communicate your status, and your concerns effectively.

Also, communicate your solutions or present them in an effective manner to your team.

Communication skills are equally important when you are working in a team

3️⃣ 1 on 1

Have regular 1 on 1s with your manager.

Talk about your expectations and ask your manager for his expectations, support, or pointers for you to reach the next level.

Talk about your career goals ⛳️

4️⃣ Feedback

Always strive for feedback from your peers, your lead, and your manager.

Feedbacks are very important for your overall growth and you can use them to improve and also use feedback during discussions with your manager.

5️⃣ Learnings

Keep learning new things and improving yourself.

Share your learnings with the team to increase overall productivity and knowledge

If you solved any common issue, you can share that and in turn it will solve a lot of time of the whole team.

6️⃣ Help

Help others in the team or outside of the team.

If you are experienced, help your juniors to become better and mentor them.

Take help from your seniors to become better and help your seniors or manager to load off some work.

7️⃣ Hackathons

Participate in Hackathons or coding events.

They are a great way to showcase your skills and in the meantime, you build or work on something new.

It’s refreshing, you learn something new and your efforts are appreciated.

Winning is an added advantage.

8️⃣ Impact

Show your impact wrt your work, team, and any other things which have helped anyone.

Build trust and gain expertise

Have numbers ready with you and back your impact with numbers📈

Numbers don’t lie 🙂

In the end, do your best, learn and improve yourself.

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