Completed
As a beginner, should you prioritize learning opportunities? What size companies should you go after?
Class Central Classrooms beta
YouTube videos curated by Class Central.
Classroom Contents
Career Progression in Tech: From Entry to Specialization - Tips and Insights
Automatically move to the next video in the Classroom when playback concludes
- 1 Angie's father thought she should familiarize herself with computers, so she took a C++ course. The rest is history!
- 2 What Angie loved about programming
- 3 Are developers missing out if they don't study computer science at university?
- 4 What makes a good teacher?
- 5 Break
- 6 Angie got his first role in tech through an internship
- 7 How Angie spent nine years at IBM
- 8 What are the advantages of changing jobs within the same company?
- 9 How does working at a huge corporation compare to working at smaller companies and startups, and why should you try a bit of both
- 10 What does career progression look like?
- 11 As a beginner, should you prioritize learning opportunities? What size companies should you go after?
- 12 Pay attention to the ratio of juniors vs. seniors
- 13 Software development is about much more than coding
- 14 How Angie discovered automation engineering and, subsequently, DevRel
- 15 There are gaps in the market for specializations
- 16 How to find a slight specialization within frontend
- 17 Quick-fire questions: Java, decentralized technologies, Sarah Drasner and Kelsey Hightower
- 18 Angie Jones has 27 patents! Here's how that happened.
- 19 What does a patent look like?
- 20 What's it like to invent patents within a big corporation like IBM?
- 21 Closing advice: Aside from technical competency, what else should new developers focus on?
