Supporting Each Other - Growth for Juniors and Seniors

Talk given at Women Who Code Berlin on Jan 24, 2019
https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Berlin-Germany/events/257707009/

Transcript

1. Supporting Each Other
   Growth for Juniors and Seniors
   Lara Martín
   Android Developer
   @Lariki
   

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2. Hiring Devs
   

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3. High Demand
   

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4. “We want
   Seniors!”
   

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5. Why not
   Juniors?
   

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6. Everyone has
   been a Junior
   

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7. Juniors' first
   job
   

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8. Applying as a
   Junior
   

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9. Applying as a
   Junior
   

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10. Impostor
    Syndrome
    

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11. Fear...
    

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12. Juniors bring
    Great Things
    

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13. Fresh
    Motivation
    

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14. Fresh
    Knowledge
    

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15. Flexible
    Mindset
    

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16. Learning
    Mindset
    

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17. What
    Managers
    Expect
    

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18. Juniors Seniors
    Continuously learning
    Small tasks
    Ask questions
    Continuously learning
    Any tasks
    Ask questions
    

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19. Juniors Seniors
    Continuously learning
    Small tasks
    Ask questions
    Need guidance
    Don’t know all the
    processes
    Continuously learning
    Any tasks
    Ask questions
    Provide guidance
    Know all the processes
    

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20. Wins for
    seniors
    

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21. Mentoring
    Juniors
    

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22. Sharing your
    knowledge
    

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23. Communication
    

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24. Focus on a
    Single Topic
    

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25. Sketch Ideas
    

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26. Be Constructive
    

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27. Criticism in
    private
    Praise in public
    

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28. Tasks
    

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29. Environment
    

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30. Pair
    Programming
    

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31. For Juniors
    

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32. When to ask
    Questions
    

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33. I got
    stuck
    

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34. Rubber
    Duck
    Debugging
    

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35. Starting a task
    

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36. Copy-pasting
    

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37. Still not
    convinced
    to hire juniors?
    

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38. You will help
    juniors to progress
    in their careers
    

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39. You will learn
    

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40. There are no
    seniors without
    juniors
    

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41. Juniors will never
    forget their
    mentors
    

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42. I am grateful to
    many people
    

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43. Thank you
    @Lariki
    

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