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Ask HN: What is the ideal company size where I can grow as a developer?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the ideal company size where I can grow as a developer?

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> I asked people on reddit what was the best way to grow as a dev and become better Depends upon how you define better. For many people that means becoming more employable, such as hot trends using a tool or framework. For me becoming better means writing original software solving challenging original problems. After interviewing exhaustively over the past year the aspect that determines better is not so much company…

>Most people in software have no idea what leadership looks like, which makes evaluating for strong leadership all but impossible. what does it look like according to you?

As a CW2 in the army who is playing Major under unrealistic expectations leadership to me looks like trust and ownership. Let your people own their product and be unwavering in setting high expectations. Be firm. Don’t let whining and insecurity dictate your delivery.

Re: Ask HN: What is the ideal company size where I can grow as a developer?

#12

I think the question should not be about company size. Size does not matter here. For huge companies (thousands of Engineers) your growth opportunities are much more based on what your team does, how crucial it is to the wider Company, how it does, what other engineers are there, turnover, etc. than the actual size of the company. I work for a huge company and a lot of developers are stuck in dead-ends and will only…

that you, that is insightful, especially that last part. Never thought about that

Re: Ask HN: What is the ideal company size where I can grow as a developer?

#13

it depends how you want to grow. if you want to be really deep on one subject, a larger company will get you that more easily since teams tend to be more siloed and focused. if you want to learn a breadth of things, jump from data to backend to frontend to devops, a smaller company will be better. if you want to grow in training/mentorship/leadership abilities, high growth small company will give more opportunities b…

what should be the strategy early in my career?
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