Summary: <h2>Description</h2> <p>Brandon Hays and Pete Brooks join the Tech Done Right podcast to discuss career development. We'll discuss some career development questions like: What makes somebody a senior developer? How do you acquire senior developer skills? What can you do to prepare yourself for a lifetime career and ensure that you are properly valued? </p> <h2>Show Notes</h2> <ul> <li>Pete Brooks: Software Developer at <a href="http://www.tablexi.com/" rel="nofollow">Table XI</a>. Author of <a href="http://www.tablexi.com/developers/first-programming-job/" rel="nofollow">"How I landed my first programming job"</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://twitter.com/tehviking" rel="nofollow">Brandon Hays</a>: “My friend” and line-level developer at <a href="https://www.ojolabs.com/" rel="nofollow">OJO Labs</a> </li> </ul> <p>02:07 - Classifying Yourself as a Developer<br> - <a href="http://frontside.io/blog/2016/07/07/the-conjoined-triangles-of-senior-level-development.html" rel="nofollow">The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development (12 Traits Blog Post)</a> </p> <p>05:51 - Working Independently" “Throw a couple juniors at it!”</p> <p>09:19 - What does it meant to progress?<br> - <a href="http://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2016-the-long-strange-trip-of-a-senior-developer" rel="nofollow">Brandon Hays: The long strange trip as a software developer @ RubyConf 2016</a><br> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrLDU6u_-rY" rel="nofollow">Brandon Hays: Hacking Spacetime for a Successful Career @ RubyConf 2015</a><br> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor" rel="nofollow">Occam’s Razor</a></p> <p>13:43 - Quantifying Value and Talking About Money</p> <p>17:27 - The Cult of the New: The Approach to Technology and Breaking Into the Industry<br> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome" rel="nofollow">Impostor Syndrome</a></p> <p>22:54 - Learning New Things and Becoming Professionally Proficient; Levelling<br> - <a href="http://www.myescareer.com/explore-career-ladders/engineering/software-engineer.aspx" rel="nofollow">Software Engineer Career Ladder</a> </p> <p>32:04 - When do I need to move on? Where do I see myself going?</p> <p>34:20 - What should new developers be doing?</p> <p>Resources: </p> <p>Brandon:</p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engineer/" rel="nofollow">John Allspaw: On Being A Senior Engineer</a><br> </li> <li>Find and befriend a software developer with 25+ years of experience.</li> </ul> <p>Pete: Keep following your interests.</p><p>Special Guests: Brandon Hays and Pete Brooks .</p>
