Ask HN: How does one go from junior engineer to mid-level in less than a year?

#1

Post by rafikicoln » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 8:32 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: How does one go from junior engineer to mid-level in less than a year?

#2

Post by jareds » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 8:34 PM UTC

Switch jobs and move to a place that overlooks your actual experience and gives you a mid-level title.

Re: Ask HN: How does one go from junior engineer to mid-level in less than a year?

#3

Post by tmaly » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 8:36 PM UTC

You are going to really have to take a big picture approach to how you perform on each task.

Read Pragmatic Programmer and Clean Code.

Keep learning, and build your code so that it is easy to maintain and change.

Learn SOLID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID_(object-oriented_design)

Remember to never stop learning, do not get comfortable, keep pushing ahead.

Re: Ask HN: How does one go from junior engineer to mid-level in less than a year?

#4

Post by rafikicoln » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 10:36 PM UTC

jareds wrote: post #2

Switch jobs and move to a place that overlooks your actual experience and gives you a mid-level title.

I meant really earning it, as in, accelerating the learning needed to be at that level

Re: Ask HN: How does one go from junior engineer to mid-level in less than a year?

#5

Post by rafikicoln » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 10:40 PM UTC

tmaly wrote: post #3

You are going to really have to take a big picture approach to how you perform on each task. Read Pragmatic Programmer and Clean Code. Keep learning, and build your code so that it is easy to maintain and change. Learn SOLID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID_(object-oriented_design) Remember to never stop learning, do not get comfortable, keep pushing ahead.

Thanks!