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The Software Engineer's Guidebook

Name: The Software Engineer's Guidebook
Author: Gergely Orosz
ISBN: 9789083381831

by Gergely Orosz

June 2023

Beginner

403 pages

11h 38m

English

Pragmatic Engineer BV

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CHAPTER 6

SWITCHING JOBS

It’s rare for a software engineer to work at the same company for their entire career. Even Satya Nadella, who became CEO of Microsoft in 2014 after joining the tech giant as a software engineer 22 years earlier in 1992, had an engineering job at Sun Microsystems before joining Microsoft.

So, what are sensible approaches for switching jobs, and knowing when to pull the trigger and take an opportunity elsewhere? We cover:

1. EXPLORING NEW OPPORTUNITIES

There are plenty of reasons to explore job opportunities, and they fall into a few categories. ...

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The Software Engineer's Guidebook

by Gergely Orosz

SWITCHING JOBS

1. EXPLORING NEW OPPORTUNITIES

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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