Mike Brevoort - Platform Architect at Slack
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Talking Points:

  • Management and Individual Contributor roles
  • Career Awareness and Growth
  • Technology Acceleration
  • Transferability of skills between programming languages
  • Negative aspects of a generalist career path
  • Hirable aspects of an applicant

Quotable Quotes:

  • “It’s hard to be really serious about being good at [ either management or individual contributor ] and do each well.” - MB
  • “If you want to be a really great manager you really have to care about people. You have to invest your time with those people.” - MB
  • “Projecting where you want to be in 5 years … is enough for a perspective shift.” - MB
  • “If you are not deliberate [ about your career path ] it’s not going to happen.” - MB
  • “The knowledge and the things that [ flash developers ] did and their capabilities really translated into other technologies.” - DG
  • “We tend to overestimate these [ technological ] shifts; that we’ll be left behind.” - MB
  • “Everyone’s path is different, but there is a lot of commonalities and there is a lot that you gain from your experience over time.” - MB
  • “There are multiple skills or attributes of a person that are more important than the proficiency of the framework that you are using.” - MB
  • “The thing that separates a lot of engineers from others is just your drive and ability to adapt and solve problems.” - MB
  • “There’s no substitute for becoming deeply proficient in some technology.” - MB
  • “When it comes down to it, this isn’t a single-player game. You have to work with teams of people.” - MB

Notes:
Mike Brevoort's
Twitter
twitter.com/mbrevoort
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/mikebrevoort
GitHub
github.com/mbrevoort
Junior to Senior Community
community.juniortosenior.io

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