How to be a Better Junior Developer
summary
Claim: non‑CS backgrounds supply immediate team value through questions as a junior superpower and mentoring-savvy behaviors. Concrete tactics: get people to want to help, make it easy for them, narrow scope; ask “if you’re busy who else could I talk to” and “where could I have found this”; prefer being the driver when pairing; prioritize product knowledge, code review and git over editor tweaks; prepare demos with screenshots and metrics, script and rehearse them; leverage support and PMs and learn D3 or Rails by focusing on one deliverable.
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- 0:00Start
- 3:49why it's hard to be a junior dev railsconf
- 4:223-step plan for "so much to learn"
- 4:34get people to want to help you
- 4:55build relationships
- 8:51Is there somewhere I could've railsconf found this answer on my own?
- 9:17show your appreciation
- 9:46tell their manager
- 10:16make it easy for people to help
- 10:28articulate why you're confused railsconf
- 12:55Sometimes things are confusing not because you're new, but because they're confusing.
- 13:40give specific, positive reinforcement
- 14:47how mentors can help learning
- 15:28don't be afraid of making mistakes
- 16:07Let's make better mistakes tomorrow.
- 20:07narrow the scope
- 20:17prioritize
- 22:11team processes, product knowledge
- 23:103-step plan for helping your team
- 23:59your technical contributions matter
- 24:57ask good questions
- 25:35Are we working on the right thing?
- 26:58give good feedback
- 28:16speak up when you have good things to say
- 28:55I don't have an opinion on this topic.
- 29:11make your team look good
- 29:26give awesome demos
- 30:57be responsive, thorough, & empathetic
- 31:39pitfalls to avoid
- 34:44conclusion
- 35:02lean on your strengths
- 35:14have confidence in your ability to learn
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