Talking Points:

• The disadvantage that Juniors developers have
• Focus on the actual goal
• Take your career to the next level

Quotable Quotes:

• "Through mentorship programs and developer events that I run, I recognize that the biggest disadvantage that Juniors developers have is not technical expertise"
• "Tools, libraries, technologies, frameworks, languages, they all change so fast"
• "The disadvantage that Juniors devs have is that they don't know how more Senior engineers and managers think"
• "That's really what I hope [the how] these interviews have given you, a window into the minds of tech leads, hiring managers, and CTOs"
• "Over the previous something 60 episodes we've also covered some specific techniques you could put into practice to immediately be seen and treated as more senior by recruiters, hiring managers and teammates"
• "I also hope that if you've taken away nothing else is that your ability to code and create software is only valuable if you're using it to help others or make them more productive"
• "Look past your tools, your editor, your programming language, and whatever framework is popular by the time you are listening to this"
• "It should be the actual goal or result that needs to be achieved, that's what should've kept in your mind"
• "Often the best solution involves no code at all"
• "Thanks for listening, I hope you take your career to the next level, and let me know how it goes"

Notes:
David Guttman twitter

twitter.com/davidguttman

Junior to Senior Community
community.juniortosenior.io

Talking Points:

• Open-source contributions
• Working with workflows
• Promoting open-source projects
• Networking
• Founder’s mindset

Quotable Quotes:

• "Getting involved with open-source can definitely make your development more visible" - AP
• "A lot of the opportunities that I've had in my life often come down to networking, and open-source is no exception to that" – AP
  "I've always generally been a proponent of just being exposed to lots of different ways to thinking or ways of working, that makes you more adaptable" – AP
• "That was really kind of the start of it [open-source] for me, just having tools I was building and using myself" – AP
• "[Canonical advice for getting started on open-source] Find a smallish but still used project, use it, try to use it in something, figure out where the gaps are in either documentation or tests or examples […] and do a small (as small as you can) PR" – DG
• "[Another approach] Trying to do your own project and see what it's like to sort of packaging all up and trying to have like a very complete but again small project that checks all the boxes" – DG
• "Go talk to people, go ask" – AP
• "It doesn't matter how busy a person is if you very genuinely just ask [to connect with them]" – AP
• "Think about who may be the dream person that you’d want to go to for advice and then just try it" – AP
• "I think that just about everyone should care about the other parts of the business where you work" – AP

Notes:

Scarf

about.scarf.sh

Avi Press website

avi.press

Avi Press twitter

twitter.com/avi_press

Junior to Senior Community
community.juniortosenior.io

Talking Points:

• How to find balance to avoid burning out
• Finding your career goal as a developer
• How to help others and learn while having fun

Quotable Quotes:

• "You should be pushing yourself, you should be learning new things" [instead of relying on an employer] - DG
• "Choose projects that you find fun” [to make your leisure time, your learning time] – DG
• "I could use that knowledge [how to push myself the right way, how to find motivation..] in helping other people, making them grow as well" - JM
• "I think I need [to develop] the skills that a CTO, a founder has" [to level up] - JM
• "With power comes responsibility" - DG
• "I think that's my biggest fear, to be in the same place [without any advance] for a very long period of time, I mean time is very limited" - JM
• "My goal is to have some kind of positive impact [...] at least do something meaningful" - JM
• "The second you are dying, you could say like well I did something great in life, at least my life was useful" – JM
• "At the end of the day if you are not capable, you probably won't go too far with your mission, that's my main concern" - JM
• "I think open-source is an amazing place to start [to somehow collaborate with others and help, to learn, to clarify your route]" - JM
• "Leave the world a bit better than you found it" - JM
• "My motivation to start in tech was actually to tweak stuff" [on games] - JM
• "I remember those times [when learned to code as a child] with a smile on my face, it's like you're having so much fun and you're not being pressed by a timeline" - JM

Notes:

Jose Mendoza's website
josebmendozam.com
Jose Mendoza's twitter
twitter.com/JoseBMendozaM
Js.la
js.la
Junior to Senior Community
community.juniortosenior.io