So with the year (and the decade!) wrapping up, what are your goals for the coming year?
These can be your career goals, technical goals, personal goals, or even just a bucket-list item you plan on crossing off in 2020.
Go!
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Data structures and algorithms. I bombed pretty hard during an interview session at Microsoft last month.
It's great that I can build and design sites and applications, but I'm in the phase where the question becomes related to performance and scalability. And next year will be centered around that.
Congrats on getting an interview, that's an achievement on it's own! For what it's worth, interviews for senior and above tend towards system design and behavioral/situational questions rather than Leetcode.
Good luck!
From what I hear, just getting an interview with Microsoft means you must be pretty badass already! ;D
I'll start!
In tech goals, 2020 is the year of Kubernetes for me. I plan on getting more familiar with the eco-system, and maybe even start contributing to the project!
In career goals this is not an aggressive goal for me, but if I can find a job at a company that has all the pros of where I work now, but in addition to that is a remote-first company I'll be very happy :)
And in personal goals, I'm taking up Krav Maga and organizing a course at my synagogue for next year.
That's a cool goal, I'm curious though.
Do you plan on using Kubernetes on your day-to-day job? I've always internally debated picking up something new but whether I do is heavily dictated by whether I can reinforce the learning at my job.
There's a very strong possibility that I'll be using it in the near future at my current job, but even if not, k8s is a huge part of the ecosystem of what my company does (PaaS and IaaS) so learning more about it will definitely help me in my day-to-day.
I have three main goals:
Apart from that, I'd love to try out contracting. Only ever worked as an employee, need to step out of my comfort zone.
To be honest I haven't really got many goals for next year, since I never seem to be able to achieve them. I'm going to take things month by month, so in January I want to focus on:
And then if all goes well, adding more goals in February!
In tech goals I have these:
2020 is the year to improve my English skills .
Buena suerte!
Thanks!
Going to be focused on 3 key aspects.
That number one though 😍
That's something I constantly struggle with as well!
Switch careers.
Previous years I haven't been positive about my technical ability or my actual desires. Now at the end of 2019, for the first time I feel positive I've done the requisite book-learnin' and soul-searchin' to definitively answer both.
Well then, good luck! 🙌
A remote web developer job
The dream 😍
Finish up my school exams with great marks and then:
I know it's very long list but I hopefully want to finish doing them in 2020.
To do:
-Straight-up master Gatsby. I'm pretty comfortable with it, but I'm making 2020 the year I know this library and how to apply it in a given situation inside and out.
-Switch my job-searching strategy from sending out applications to whomever seems interesting and hiring to putting more weight into networking and targetting specific employees.
-Rebuilding momentum in terms of blogging and writing. 2020 will be the year that I get going on a series aimed at beginners that will explicitly tell them what to worry about and what not to worry about when learning software development (ie, learn this concept cold, look up the syntax for this thing as needed).
-Continue building my React knowledge, and start getting comfortable with the Apollo platform.
What NOT to do:
-Get distracted by shiny technologies (looking at you, Elixir) that are not in the React/Gatsby ecosystem. I wanted to show a certain amount of diversity, but all it's done is hurt my job search, and I want to narrow my focus and show more depth in the coming year. I will put a small amount of time into continuing to get good with Ruby on Rails, but that's the only non-JS allowance I'm making.
-Use tutorials or Udemy! This was a bad habit that I started to move away from in 2019, and it was clear that the extra effort from learning things the hard way was resulting in quicker mastery of concepts, even if it didn't feel like that. I have a React Native course that I will slowly finish up, and I will check out any Gatsby course by an A-list teacher (like Andrew Mead or Angela Yu), but this coming year will be largely tutorial free for me.
To quell that constant state of unease about how many gaps I have in my knowledge. I want to read more coding books instead of trying to learn strictly through application. Also to really understand why we use Frameworks like React/Vue when it's such an overengineered solution for 95% of projects.
I want to write more, both code and blog posts, and focus on building deeper and more long lasting habits rather than move from project to project (which is also fun, but I’m hoping to do something different in 2020!)
Be more strategic in approach towards getting projects.
Network more.
Build a personal brand.
Keep getting better at what you're doing right now.
Lots to learn. Learn to be humble.
Give back to the developer community in some way.. open source something, teach someone something, give a talk on emerging technologies, anything counts.
I don't have many concrete goals for 2020. But I do know that I want to become better at Object-Oriented Programming and unit testing.
Testing is a great skill to become better at! Good luck!