The Course Says Your Team Is Doing It Wrong
You come back from a two day course on service design full of energy. One slide is still in your head. Each service should own its own data, and ser…
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You Have Been Split Between Two Teams
The decision is announced as good news. Your skills are in demand, so from next month you will spend half your time on the payments team and half on…
You Have Been Asked to Represent Your Team at the Architecture Review
Your company has a fortnightly architecture review. Leads and senior engineers from every team, an hour on a call, proposals for anything that cross…
Your Mentee Wants You to Choose Between Two Offers
The message comes late on a Sunday. Two offers, both good, both expiring this week. A larger company with a calmer pace and a better salary. A small…
The Offer Comes With a Two Day Deadline
The call goes well. They want you. The written offer arrives that evening with a friendly sentence at the bottom. We would need your answer by Thurs…
You Have Already Forgotten Most of Last Month's Course
You finished the course. You took notes, you followed along, it all made sense at the time. Try this now, without looking anything up: explain the t…
Some Skills Your Current Job Will Never Give You
Every job teaches you a particular set of things, and it teaches them well. It also has a shape, and some experiences simply do not fit inside that…
The Part of the Job You Only See by Staying
The advice you hear most often is to move every couple of years, and there are good reasons behind it. There is also a category of learning that onl…
What an Interview Tests Is Quietly Changing
For about fifteen years, the way you proved you could do this job was to produce something. Write the function on the whiteboard. Take the exercise…
Most of the Questions Will Not Be About Code
If you mentor anyone for longer than a few months, the subject will drift. You start out talking about testing strategy and pull requests, and one T…
Go Back to the Thing You Learned Badly
There is something in your foundations that you learned badly, and you know exactly what it is. Maybe it was the week you were ill and covered the t…
Interview Once a Year Even When You Are Happy
You do not have to be unhappy to go and find out what you are worth. Once a year, take an interview. Not because you are leaving. Because the only w…
Say It Three Ways Until One Lands
You explained it clearly. They still did not get it. Your instinct in that moment is to say it again, slightly louder, with the same words. That alm…
The Best Thing You Can Give Is Your Time
When people think about mentoring, they imagine having brilliant answers. The perfect piece of advice at the perfect moment. I want to take that pre…