Backwards compatible – Lessons from 25 years in software
summary
Career advice distilled from 25 years centers on concrete habits: make the sale in five minutes during interviews, negotiate total compensation, keep a brag document updated every other week and tether entries to the career ladder, quantify impact not activity, rigorously document performance and team status, avoid getting trapped in unrewarded glue work, and use structured ways to say no (offer alternatives, cite capacity or quality tradeoffs).
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Conference welcome
- 1:46Career stages and backwards compatibility
- 4:20First job in tech
- 8:41First year impact
- 16:27Building trust early
- 21:05Becoming a manager
- 24:55Saying no and managing up
- 28:03Career connections
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