June 2023
Beginner
403 pages
11h 38m
English
For the first few years of my developer career, I didn’t care too much about career-related stuff. I assumed that if I worked hard and delivered good work, the rewards would follow. At developer agencies, promotions were rare and career development was much more limited, but I didn’t feel like I missed out on anything while my title and level stayed the same at the first few places I worked.
It was when I moved to larger companies like JP Morgan and Microsoft that I noticed it’s not always those who work hardest or deliver the highest quality work, who are awarded the biggest bonuses and win prized promotions. When I became an engineering manager at Uber, I had a team of engineers who required ...
