A status update is where you can showcase how well you manage ambiguity and is an important way to build trust with your team — Imagine this — they assign you a task to finish up this sprint. It is a task that requires you to push a new feature within a brand-new architecture you have never touched on. On the first day, you look through all the documentation on the Confluence page to get…

I am launching a newsletter — Path to Senior — to give software engineers more insights on navigating their careers in tech. — How I started my blogging journey? I began writing about my software engineer career in 2019 when I started working at Disney+, the streaming service for Disney, Hulu, and ESPN. I felt like I wasn’t growing the way I wanted to. It was my first time working in a fast-paced, high-tech environment. I was inexperienced with…

#2 Invite the Necessary People For Collaboration — A software developer lies at the heart of a company’s value delivery system. We need to produce ideas with tangible value and gather new requirements by asking valuable questions to the stakeholder. Translating everyone’s desires into implantable action points while avoiding conflicts is key to becoming a pro developer. Why Good Collaboration Helps you speed up Your Career?

Asking questions are 80% of the job as a software engineer — “School is about giving the right answers to questions. Life, in contrast, is mostly about asking the right questions, to begin with.” — Scott H. Young. Regarding coding, we spend 80% of our time asking questions and 20% executing the result. So, one of the skills many pro developers possess…

Ask Questions Before You Are Not Sure You Should Go Deep Into a Solution — Developers suck at estimation. When someone asks them, “How long does it take to investigate the bug or to solve X?” We often give them an optimistic estimation, “It will be a T-shirt size Medium.” However, we dive into the problem and realize that the problem is bigger than we…

Great engineers find ways to receive feedback as fast as possible. — Faster feedback loop leads to a rapid development process. The only way to know if your assumption is correct in building a product is to receive that feedback loop. So, getting your product or service released as soon as possible, even if it’s small, is both financially wise and educational…

“Like a fine wine, developers' skill sets are improving with time!” — The notion that software engineering is only for those under a certain age is outdated and untrue. I have heard this statement repeated repeatedly, but in observation, a developer’s value and potential for employment only increase with age and experience. Recently, my friend asked me if I see myself still…

If you want to build exponential wealth and skillsets, focus on long-term growth instead of TC. — I recently had a two-week break that had me reflect on my long-term goals and career. I felt very guilty that I couldn’t write articles for a month due to project deadlines. Work is more important than writing articles and building a personal brand because you abide by a contract…

Simplicity is underrated — Reusable code is a holy grail of programming. Software engineers are obsessed with creating utility libraries and functions that can reuse by all brand ranges of business applications. They argue all day over coffee about making their code more reusable and not reinventing it repeatedly. As they continue to evolve…