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Vitor
Vitor

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How to grow up and be noticed on your job

Ownership

  • Always leave the code better than you found it
  • If it's easy to change, change it on the spot
  • If it's not in production, there's no reason to be afraid of making mistakes
  • Open issue if your problem is not simple
  • If it's in production, open an issue to discuss with the team how to solve

Learn in Public

  • Always use public channels (social media or public channels on Slack)
  • Make articles about the problems that you have been solving and about what you learned on your day
  • Ask for feedbacks

Omnipresence

  • Review as many PR's as you can
  • Ask why to everything
  • Participate in all discussions
  • Discuss with others area, like marketing or something else

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Adit Modi

Thank you for sharing, this is definitely helpful.

Give more value
Every employer wants their employees to contribute to the value of the company, so making a conscious effort to add value is one of the best ways grow on your job.

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Ravavyr

Never be afraid to make changes, even in production. Just be quick to undo what you did, and as long as you understand what you did, prod won't be down for long enough for anyone to notice.
[disclaimer: Don't do this on very high traffic sites, duh]

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Madza

Some awesome tips here 👍✨

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Abdelrhman Sayed El-Sadory

thanks for your post ❤❤
but what do u mean "If it's in production, open an issue to discuss later" ?
if the problem is in production period, should i insist to be solved in the same time or schedule it in future meeting ? 🙄🙄
thanks in advance 🌹🌹

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Vitor • Edited

Thanks!
What I mean with this line is something like "open a issue to discuss some point later with the team", like a forum.

But I understand your point, and makes sense. I'll change this sentence.
I was based on an ideally scenery when nothing danger or critical is merged.

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cricCode

Thank you for the article!
What should I be looking for while reviewing PR's? For most PR's the logic is something that takes quite some to understand and I don't think that should be the focus while reviewing PR's.

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Vitor

You should review every PR's as you can because this will make you to understand more the codebase. Like what is merged, how some dev think to solve some problem, looking for patterns.

All this tricks will help to do smart copy and paste sibelius.substack.com/p/smart-copy....

And after some time you will understand a lot about the business logic and how your codebase works.

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Vinicius Blazius Goulart

Great post!

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Vitor

Thanks!

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Gamerseo

The most important thing in work is commitment and acquiring knowledge on your own.

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Muhammad Saim Hashmi

These guidelines will surely help. Thanks for sharing.

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Dennis Persson

These are actually great notes. It doesn't have to be technical to be a valuable post.

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Ítalo Santana

Great points! Thanks for sharing.