Early Career Advice

Career advice for young people and/or people early on in their career

by Kassen Qian and · updated 1mo ago

Advice I would give to a college freshman: These next four years, one of your main goals should be to figure out how not to have the rest of your life be a long series of soul-sapping jobs If you want to be happy after college, learn how to do one or multiple of these: • Run your own business doing something you love (eg massage, coaching, art di... See more
by Tyler Alterman
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Stuart Evans added 1mo ago
The Engineering Manager
by James Stanier
theengineeringmanager.com
Amit Cohen added 4mo ago
Career & Professional Development
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MargaretC added 5mo ago
The Data Team Playbook: 50+ Resources For High-Performing Data Teams
by SeattleDataGuy
seattledataguy.substack.com
Amit Cohen added 6mo ago
a great collection of resources
When I was at Google, my very first promotion from Eng 1 to Eng 2 got rejected after 2 years in the role. The feedback from the promo committee was “work on more impactful projects”. I was disappointed, but I also learned that “I’ll just do what I’m told and I’ll get promoted” is simply not true. I needed to rethink my approach.

The feedback from th... See more
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Amit Cohen added 6mo ago
Impact is so much more important than doing your job right. Based on a LinkedIn post by Irina Stanescu
Learning to be managed · Jose Antunes
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Jilber Najem added 6mo ago
Make decisions easy for busy people. You will rise fast in your career if busy people like working with you. Here’s a tip: when you have a problem to solve, come prepared with a suggested next step. If you have a question, phrase it in a way they can answer yes/no. If there are multiple options, lay them out and ask them to pick one. Try to avoid e

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alex added 7mo ago

How to Be Lucky¶

You make your own luck. There's a great experiment that I can't cite, but it has stuck in my mind since I was a child. They identified people as lucky and unlucky, and asked them to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. The unlucky people took a long time to count the photographs, while the lucky people took a very short ... See more