Mind the Gap: Career...
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Four-panel discussion shares concrete career actions: become a T-shaped engineer (deep in 1–2 areas, broad elsewhere), force one consecutive week of PTO every quarter to reduce burnout, treat management as a different job family and get therapy and self-reflection before moving into people leadership, take scary stretch projects for ~a year to test fit, prefer organic candid feedback over vague reviews, document public work (blogs or OSS) to open doors, and prioritize building trust with a manager in year one.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:24Panelist introductions
- 3:09Finding career direction
- 9:59Work-life balance and burnout
- 15:14Growth opportunities for engineers
- 20:49Climbing the career ladder
- 25:04Receiving and using feedback
- 31:04Skills for the future
- 32:27IC to management transition
- 34:57Specialist vs generalist
- 36:46Breaking into security
- 38:09Public visibility impact
- 41:03Early career goals
- 43:33Career planning vs opportunism
- 46:23Closing remarks
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