What it means to be a Senior - EMx 257

Elixir Mix

In this episode of the Mix the panelists talk about Seniority. They lay out their own personal journeys towards getting a senior title and how they define seniority for themselves - especially how it goes beyond the ability to write code well.
Among other things they discuss:

• how to become fluent in reading and writing code
• how side projects are useful but not required to become a great developer
• how senior developers tend to approach problem solving and how to get better at that
• how interpersonal skills play at least an equal role as technical knowledge
• how specific tech know-how becomes less and less important the further developers climb the ladder - at least the managerial ladder
• how organizational structures cannot be ignored when building solutions

They close with some picks which they deem valuable for anybody who'd like to dig deeper into some of these ideas.
Links

• Are We Really Engineers? * Hillel Wayne
• Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
• Conway's law - Wikipedia
• Team Topologies
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook

Picks

• Adi- The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook
• Adi- Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
• Adi- God of War Ragnarök - PS5 Games | PlayStation
• Sascha- Specification by Example
• Sascha- Exercism
• Sascha- You Know Nothing ... or do you? - Sascha Wolf

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