Monday, November 21

Learning About Companies : Developer Tea

https://spec.fm/podcasts/developer-tea/50029
(Step-3a of the Developer Career Roadmap)

4:40 You as a developer, you have opportunity, the freedom to go and work and do anything that you want to do, with any company that you want to work with. That freedom is open to any developer.

Imposter syndrome.

The fact of the matter is everyone starts somewhere.

You need to be able to affirm yourself so you can put your energy into learning rather than worrying about what everyone else thinks.

The only people who reach those big goals are the people who have big goals to begin with.

10:40 The Developer career roadmap is about getting you into the workforce and create value. There are all different kinds of employers, companies.

Don't limit your vision. Consider the reality that everyone needs developers and new developers are needed on a regular basis for growing companies.

13:27
depends on your personal preferences or interests:
-work remote
-has a culture or in-office environment that may be valuable to you
-pay-structure
-location in the world
-whose work you believe in

Three types of models that hire developers:
1. Technology (Software) forward product company
ex. Facebook or a game development company
deeper expertise in a specific area

2. Non-technology(Non-software) forward product company
generalist maybe, smaller development team in comparison to the company.
iPhone app for a theme park, website.

3. Consultancy
have clients that bring their problems to you.
contract basis
provide expertise
it is like that your company will specialise in a few technologies and business categories.
you approach different types of problems with a similar toolset.
usually moderate sized teams.

This step is really about evaluating the type of work that you eventually want to be doing. This includes evaluating your own working style, your own personality, the types of things you enjoy doing.

These are the types of things you have to ask yourself and think about these different types of companies and start looking at real companies in the world that you'll be interested in working at.

Come up with a list of 5 maybe even 10 different options of companies that you would feel fulfilled working at, as best as you can tell from the outside looking in.
Its important to keep this list updated throughout your career.

Do some research and Understand the landscape of companies out there that are willing to hire developers.

You are gonna be learning for the rest of your career if you want to be a great developer.

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