| Title | : | The Software Developer's Career Handbook |
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| ISBN | : | 1098116631 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781098116637 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 431 |
| Publication | : | Published August 9, 2023 |
With more than 40 stand-alone stories, Lopp walks through a complete job lifecycle, starting with the interview and ending with the realization that it might be time to move on. You'll learn how to handle baffling circumstances in your job, understand what you want from your career, and discover how to thrive in your workplace.
Learn how to navigate areas of your job that don't involve writing codeIdentify how the aspects you enjoy will affect your next career stepsBuild and maintain key relationships and interactions within your communityMake choices that will help you have a "deliberate career"Recognize what's important to your manager and work on things that matter
The Software Developer's Career Handbook Reviews
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Between 3 and 4 stars. This is a mixed bag as you would expect from compilation of blog posts.
The book stands on a very solid ground and is very prescriptive when it comes to more junior stuff: how to get through interviews, how to do presentations, how to assess your current position, how to demo to senior people. The part one is really-really good. It's years of experience being reflected an distilled into pretty concise recipes. While reading it I was constantly thinking "wow. this is as good as Elegant Puzzle!"
But then the "handbook" degrades into descriptive world view of the author and aspirational essays. There isn't much of continuity or tight coherency between chapters, so it is more like a buffet. I wish chapters had 2-3 sentence worth of summary up front.
Overall it's a good sample of a world view of the IT veteran. It's a bit raw, a bit edgy and 85% honest. -
This is another book from Rands, not the first one I've read.
Overall, to really enjoy an author's writing, you have to get used to it. Usually, his books are an array of articles from his blog, edited and reviewed so it looks like a book. Stories from life and experience. I've enjoyed 'Managing Humans' books.
This one is a bit too upsetting for me. A few stories were interesting, but the others didn't really apply anyhow to engineering. I'm a software dev and a bunch of advice was not applicable to me like there is for managers and how to understand the nerd, but not how to be a nerd.
Another thing I didn't like is that the format of the stories doesn't really share one common goal or core idea for the book. I don't really say what this book is about. About career? Yeah, a few stories were about that. Conversation with people or inside the company/team? Yeah, got a few of those as well. But I don't see how they are connected, what's the main idea. Therefore, only 2 out of five.
