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Supporting Each Other - Growth for Juniors and Seniors

Supporting Each Other - Growth for Juniors and Seniors

Lara Martín

October 24, 2019
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  1. Supporting Each Other
    Growth for Juniors and Seniors
    Lara Martín
    Android Developer
    @Lariki #DroidconUK

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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. Impostor
    Syndrome

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  10. Fear...

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  11. Juniors bring
    Great Things

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  12. Fresh
    Motivation

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  13. Fresh
    Knowledge

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  14. Flexible
    Mindset

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  15. Learning
    Mindset

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  16. What
    Managers
    Expect

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  17. 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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  18. Wins for
    seniors

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  19. Mentoring
    Juniors

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  20. Sharing your
    knowledge

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  21. Communication

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  23. MVVM
    Repository pattern
    Use Cases
    Dependency Injection
    Rx
    Android Project

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  24. Focus on a
    Single Topic

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  25. Sketch Ideas

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  26. API client
    Service

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  27. API client
    Service
    Data

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  28. API client
    Service
    Data
    Repository
    UseCase
    Domain

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  29. API client
    Service
    Data
    Repository
    UseCase
    Domain
    Presentation
    Layout
    ViewModel
    Screen
    View
    Navigator

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  30. Be Constructive

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  31. Criticism in
    private
    Praise in public

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  32. Tasks

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  33. Environment

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  34. Pair
    Programming

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  35. For Juniors

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  36. When to ask
    Questions

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  37. I got
    stuck

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  38. Rubber
    Duck
    Debugging

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  39. Starting a task

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  40. Copy-pasting

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  41. I don’t
    know

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  42. I don’t
    know
    either

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  43. Still not
    convinced
    to hire juniors?

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  44. You will help
    juniors to progress
    in their careers

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  45. You will learn

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  46. There are no
    seniors without
    juniors

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  47. Juniors will never
    forget their
    mentors

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  48. I am grateful to
    many people

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  49. Thanks to
    Droidcon London!

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  50. @Lariki
    Thank
    you!
    !

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