I personally think this is too much time spent on doing something other than your craft. I became a senior engineer before newsletters or creators were cool, and I'm quite happy about that. We looked at hacker news every morning, answered some questions on Stackoverflow while learning something new, and then went on with our job. I'm sure I'd be struggling today. What are your thoughts on this?
I agree. Being aware of the trends is a must. It was decades ago and will continue to be. It's just that I feel this was much easier to do in the past.
On your second point(Focus on depth and not breadth), even though I love to believe that but I kind of not fully agree with what my experiences with Microsoft and Salesforce.
These days companies want us to know so many new things and technologies in SDLC (Ex: terraform- Infrastructure as a code, Kubenetes-config files, AWS cluster configurations etc) which are sometime not in the expertise scope of a regular software engineer who is SME in some other part of SDLC. Hence we have to focus on breadth with working knowledge and move on.
Oo nice new Github repo, Hemant and thank you so much for including me/High Growth Engineer in it as well!
Thanks Jordan 😃🙌🏼
I have the same experience. I’ve worked on k8s, docker etc but learned on a go-to basis.
I think core skills now for me are mostly non-technical that how I can lead and delegate better and remove blockers by effective communication.
I guess a T shaped approach is generally the best in which you know foundations of different techs but are deep dive into one
I personally think this is too much time spent on doing something other than your craft. I became a senior engineer before newsletters or creators were cool, and I'm quite happy about that. We looked at hacker news every morning, answered some questions on Stackoverflow while learning something new, and then went on with our job. I'm sure I'd be struggling today. What are your thoughts on this?
I think you’ll still be a great SWE if your foundations are strong.
A lot of strong SWEs just absolutely nail their job and get stuff done.
But, you gotta know how things are changing, where industry is trending if you want to do a business or innovate
I agree. Being aware of the trends is a must. It was decades ago and will continue to be. It's just that I feel this was much easier to do in the past.
Great article with core points covered very well.
On your second point(Focus on depth and not breadth), even though I love to believe that but I kind of not fully agree with what my experiences with Microsoft and Salesforce.
These days companies want us to know so many new things and technologies in SDLC (Ex: terraform- Infrastructure as a code, Kubenetes-config files, AWS cluster configurations etc) which are sometime not in the expertise scope of a regular software engineer who is SME in some other part of SDLC. Hence we have to focus on breadth with working knowledge and move on.
I would like to know your experience on this.