Supporting Each Other - Growth for Juniors and Seniors

Talk given at Droidcon London 2019
https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/14200-supporting-each-other-growth-for-juniors-and-seniors

Transcript

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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