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
2. Hiring Devs
3. High Demand
4. “We want Seniors!”
5. Why not Juniors?
6. Everyone has been a Junior
7. Juniors' first job
8. Applying as a Junior
9. Applying as a Junior
10. Impostor Syndrome
11. Fear...
12. Juniors bring Great Things
13. Fresh Motivation
14. Fresh Knowledge
15. Flexible Mindset
16. Learning Mindset
17. What Managers Expect
18. Juniors Seniors Continuously learning Small tasks Ask questions Continuously learning Any tasks Ask questions
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
20. Wins for seniors
21. Mentoring Juniors
22. Sharing your knowledge
23. Communication
24. Focus on a Single Topic
25. Sketch Ideas
26. Be Constructive
27. Criticism in private Praise in public
28. Tasks
29. Environment
30. Pair Programming
31. For Juniors
32. When to ask Questions
33. I got stuck
34. Rubber Duck Debugging
35. Starting a task
36. Copy-pasting
37. Still not convinced to hire juniors?
38. You will help juniors to progress in their careers
39. You will learn
40. There are no seniors without juniors
41. Juniors will never forget their mentors
42. I am grateful to many people
43. Thank you @Lariki