Career Abroad - How the best Technologists are conquering the World

Whether you have just started or you are already working in Tech for a couple of years, I’m pretty sure that you have asked yourself the following questions at some point:

* How does a successful career in tech look like? What are my career options?
* How can I advance my career and take it to the next level?
* How do I become valuable to my company? What separates the best performers from the average performers?
* How can I prepare myself to the upcoming changes in our industry?
* How can I market myself?
* How can I crack the interview process to the best companies?
* How do I negotiate my salary?
* How can I have more autonomy in my job? How can I work 100% remotely?
* How can I get a job abroad?

Back in 2009, I had the same questions, but I could not find the answer to most of them. There was not much out there in Portuguese back then. (Yes, I only got to learn English much later on.)

Today, living and working in New York City for the past 5 years, I would like to share the tips that I wished I had received 10+ years ago when I was starting my career in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

I'm currently writing a book that I plan to launch this year about Career Abroad in IT. For that, I'm interviewing a total of 50 Successful Technologists working on most important Tech Hubs around the world.

This talk will be a summary of my experience and the main lessons that I learned from those 50 professionals.

Transcript

1. THIAGO GHISI Engineering Director - NYC @thiagoghisi How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World CareeRAbroad
2. Hi!
 I’m Thiago! 200+
 Job Interviews 50 to 100
 Team members 5
 Got promoted 1
 book coming out
3. THIAGO GHISI Engineering Director— NYC How to live abroad being a software engineer CareeR Abroad
4. Tubarão, SC New York, NY
5. How does a Successful Career in Tech look like? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World
6. AGENDA Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World 1 2 3 4 Defining
 Success Skillset
 Framework Career
 Accelerators Q&A

7. AGENDA Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World 1 2 3 4 Defining
 Success Skillset
 Framework Career
 Accelerators Q&A

8. WHAt’s Success In the first place? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World
9. Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Martin Fowler Linus Torvalds Alberto Silveira Sandro Mancuso Matz Michael Lopp Paulo Caroli José Valim
10. John Resume - Example 1 • 10 pages resume • Same position • Same technologies • 15+ years of experience 2009 - Software Engineer Company A - 10+ years 2003 - Software Engineer Company B - 7 years 2000 - Software Engineer Company C - 2 years CAREER over time
11. PAUL Resume - Example 2 • Strong technical career progress • Transition to the management track • 15+ years of experience 2019 - Vice President of Engineering
 Company A - 2+ years 2017 - Senior Director of Engineering
 Company B - 2 years 2015 - Director of Engineering
 Company B - 2 years 2013 - Director of Engineering
 Company C - 2 years
 2011 - Technical Lead Company D - 2 years
 2009 - Technical Lead
 Company E - 3 years 2006 - Senior Software Engineer Company F - 3 years 2003 - Software Engineer Company G - 3 years CAREER over time
12. GEORGE Resume - Example 3 • Strong technical career progress • Transition to the management track • Transition back to tech track & growth • 15+ years of experience 2019 - Senior Software Engineer
 Company A - 3+ years 2016 - Principal Member of Tech Staff
 Company B - 2 years 2014 - Tech Lead Company B - 3 years 2011 - Engineering Manager
 Company C - 2 years
 2009 - Tech Lead / Architect Company D - 2 years
 2007 - Senior Java Consultant
 Company E - 3 years 2004 - Software Engineer / Architect Company F - 1 year 2003 - Software Engineer Company F - 2 years CAREER over time
13. What all those people have in common? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World
14. EVER-GROWING
 IMPACT & INFLUENCE Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World
15. Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World YOU’RE HERE MANAGE
 PEOPLE TECHNICAL
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16. AGENDA Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World 1 2 3 4 Defining
 Success Skillset
 Framework Career
 Accelerators Q&A

17. THIAGO GHISI Engineering Director - NYC How to live abroad being a software engineer CareeR Abroad
18. How to take your career to the next level? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World
19. Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World E V A L U A T I O N
20. career progression models Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Startup-Kit Snowflake Spreadsheet-Matrix Marco Rogers
21. Startup kit Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World
22. Snowflake Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World
23. Spreadsheet-Matrix Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World
24. What have I found? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World
25. SKILLSET FRAMEWORK Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Platform Product Process People Y O U R E V A L U A T I O N
26. SKILLSET FRAMEWORK Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Platform Product Process People WHAT Internal WHAT External HOW Visible HOW Invisible Y O U R E V A L U A T I O N
27. SKILLSET FRAMEWORK Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Platform Product Process People WHAT Internal WHAT External HOW Visible HOW Invisible Y O U R E V A L U A T I O N
28. Platform WHAT Internal Mobile iOS Android Flutter Backend Go Python Elixir Frontend CSS HTML JS BUIDING!
29. How do I get better at this? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Platform Contributions WHAT Internal
30. Generalizing Specialist Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Scott Ambler
31. Specializing Generalist? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Specialist T-shaped Generalizing Specialist
32. HOW? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World MASTER OF NONE S M
33. Reference Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World “Books give us a deeper understanding of a technology or subject. Favor conceptual and behavioral books for your career progression, starting with the revolutionary ones. Read technology specific books for your short and medium term plans.”
34. SKILLSET FRAMEWORK Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Platform Product Process People WHAT Internal WHAT External HOW Visible HOW Invisible Y O U R E V A L U A T I O N
35. Product WHAT External EXECUTING! GET STUFF
 DONE!
 CUSTOMER
 IMPACT!
36. How do I get better at this? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Product Delivery WHAT External
37. Maximize Work Not Done! "When implementing a new program, or a new feature or even fixing a bug - the smaller the amount of code you need - the better. Short programs are generally easier to understand, more reliable, easier to extend, etc.”
38. HOW? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Find
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 MUST SHOULD COULD Jeff Patton
39. Reference Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World "A característica principal de um MVP é que fazemos algo para aprender se vale a pena continuar construindo o produto. Então escolhemos funcionalidades que nos ajudem a validar o que é valioso para os nossos usuários."
40. SKILLSET FRAMEWORK Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Platform Product Process People WHAT Internal WHAT External HOW Visible HOW Invisible Y O U R E V A L U A T I O N
41. Process HOW Visible CULTURE PRaCTICES GUIDELINES Recruiting Community STRENGTHENING!
42. How do I get better at this? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Process & Culture HOW Visible
43. HOW? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World BE
 AN INTERVIEWER!
44. Reference Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World “The maddening thing about most of our organizations is that they are only as good as the people who staff them. Wouldn't it be nice if we could get around that natural limit, and have good organizations even though they were staffed by mediocre or incompetent people?”
45. SKILLSET FRAMEWORK Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Platform Product Process People WHAT Internal WHAT External HOW Visible HOW Invisible Y O U R E V A L U A T I O N
46. People HOW Invisible SUPPORTING! Communication Feedback Mentoring Facilitation
47. How do I get better at this? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World People Leadership HOW Invisible
48. "DO THe NOT-glamorous and often NOT-promotable work that needs to happen to make a team successful." Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Tanya Reilly BE the GLUE PERSON!
49. HOW? Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World You will be good at everything that you put the effort into.
50. REFERENCE Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World "The craft of programming begins with empathy, not formatting or languages or tools or algorithms or data structures."
 Kent Beck
51. SKILLSET FRAMEWORK Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Platform Product Process People Y O U R E V A L U A T I O N
52. IMPACT
53. AGENDA Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World 1 2 3 4 Defining
 Success Skillset
 Framework Career
 Accelerators Q&A

54. Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Fabio Akita
55. Continuous Interviewing Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World CHANGE.
 And do it again.
56. Learning vs. Earning Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World ONE Step back,
 two STEPS forward.
57. SHORT-TERM VS. LONG-TERM Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World
58. CHALLENGE YOURseLF. Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World Thank you! THIAGO GHISI CarreiraNoExterior.Tech @thiagoghisi
59. AGENDA Career Abroad - How the Best Technologists are Conquering the World 1 2 3 4 Defining
 Success Skillset
 Framework Career
 Accelerators Q&A

60. Q&A