Stuff I wish someone told me about being an engineer

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1. Stuff  I  wish  someone  told  me   about  being  an  engineer   Jeffrey  Walter   Senior  Computer  Scien;st   Adobe  
2. Titles  are  bullshit.   •  Do  not  hang  your  iden;ty  on  your  ;tle   •  They  mean  a  lot  to  some  people  
3. Process  MaBers   •  Don’t  be  a  cowboy     •  Find  a  process  that  works  for  you   •  Follow  that  process  
4. Ask  for  help   •  No  one  expects  you  to  know  all  the  things  
5. Google  is  the  best  
6. They’re  gonna  find  me  out!   •  Imposter  syndrome  never  goes  away   •  It  does  get  beBer.  I  promise.  
7. You  are  not  hot  shit   •  The  all  knowing  neck-­‐beard  is  not  amused     •  You  can  be  that  neck-­‐beard    
8. Making  mistakes  is  not  a  requirement   •  Pair  programming   •  Code  reviews   •  Open  source  
9. It’s  easy,  right?  All  you  have  to  do  is…   •  NO!     •  What  is  the  problem  are  you  trying  to  solve?  
10. Problem  solving   •  Syntax  is  gravy     •  Whiteboard,  pseudo-­‐code,  rubber  duck,  toy   problems  
11. Constantly  self  evaluate   •  Stuck  in  a  rut    
12. PRIORITY  ALPHA  1!!!!   •  Not  everything  can  be  priority  1     •  Keep  a  task  list  
13. Technical  debt   •  Never  priori;zed     •  Do  it  anyway  
14. Past  you  is  an  idiot.   •  Ten  minutes  ago  you  is  an  idiot   •  1  month  ago  you  is  a  f-­‐ckin  crazy  person  
15. Sacred  cows  are  tasty   •  Rip  it  out!    
16. Es;ma;on  sucks.  You  suck.   •  Dunning-­‐Kruger  effect     •  BeBer  stories  ==  beBer  es;ma;on  
17. Passion   •  Horseshit!  
18. The  Hard  Stuff  
19. •  Follow  Sandy  Metz’s  rules     •  Test  all  the  things   •  DO  NOT  USE  EXCEPTIONS  FOR  FLOW  CONTROL     •  Learn  how  to  debug  
20. CS  fundamentals   •  Write  a  linked  list   •  Write  a  binary  search   •  Memory  structures   •  Pass  by  reference  vs  pass  by  value   •  Garbage  collec;on   •  SQL   •  Write  a  recursive  tree  traversal  
21. Programming  PaBerns   •  DRY   •  Bike  Shedding   •  SOLID   •  Dependency  Injec;on   •  Map/reduce   •  Memoiza;on   •  Null  object   •  Func;onal  Programming  
22. Architectural  PaBerns   •  SOA   •  Microservices   •  Load  balancing   •  High  Availability   •  Pub/Sub/Observer  
23. Stuff  you  think  you  know  already   •  Interviewing  sucks   •  The  liBle  stuff  maBers   •  Stupid  people  exist   •  Peter  principal   •  Office  Space   •  It’s  ok  to  work  for  Innotech    
24. Don’t  be  an  asshole   •  Tag,  you’re  it!       •  Misogyny/Racism/*ism  is  real      
25. Thanks!   •  Lehi  Developers  User  Group   •  Email:          jwalter@adobe.com   •  TwiBer:  @jwalter748   •  Slack:          LDUG.slack.com