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> A talented junior developer is still a junior developer. Read his biography - the entire reason he has been able to achieve everything he has in life is beca

> A talented junior developer is still a junior developer. Read his biography - the entire reason he has been able to achieve everything he has in life is because he doesn't have such a close-minded and pessimistic attitude. Rather than just letting the conventions of society dictate what he gets and does, he instinctively finds ways to work around them. While everyone else is busy checking the boxes expected of them, he's already moved on to the next level.

fensipens 10y ago
> close-minded and pessimistic attitude I would call it healthy skepticism.
- w1ntermute 10y ago
  Then you won't be getting a 250K offer from Airbnb with 1 year of experience any time soon.
  - fensipens 10y ago
    130K + something that at some point may be sold for a currently unknown value.
fredophile 10y ago
On your advice I read the about page on his website (I assume this is the biography you mentioned). I also checked out App Academy on LinkedIn and Angel List. Angel List even had the job posting for his old position. I still believe he's a junior developer. He didn't magically cram more than a year of development into that year. If anything he did less development. Out of his one year of experience some was spent as an instructor, not a developer, and many of his duties as Director of Product were management and not software development. In fact, he mentioned that as one of the reasons he wanted to leave that role. Some lessons are learned by doing things and dealing with the results. He hasn't been doing this long enough to see the long term consequences of any decisions he made while developing software at App Academy because those consequences haven't happened yet. Also, App Academy is a small company with about 10-20 people. Lots of things that aren't important with 10 people become very important on software projects with 100 people. None of what I said means he isn't intelligent or talented. It doesn't mean he didn't do good work while at App Academy or that he won't do good work at AirBnB. It just means he's inexperienced. That's not a bad thing but it isn't something you can change overnight.
- JDiculous 10y ago
  I think you're underrating the significance of the rate at which one is able to learn and acquire knowledge. I'd argue that this is actually more important than experience within a large organization with plenty of mentorship. This guy was able to accomplish a ton in a year, acquiring the technical chops to get offers at top companies like Google. If he can do that in one year, imagine where he'll be in another year.

fensipens 10y ago

> close-minded and pessimistic attitude I would call it healthy skepticism.

w1ntermute 10y ago
Then you won't be getting a 250K offer from Airbnb with 1 year of experience any time soon.
- fensipens 10y ago
  130K + something that at some point may be sold for a currently unknown value.

fredophile 10y ago

On your advice I read the about page on his website (I assume this is the biography you mentioned). I also checked out App Academy on LinkedIn and Angel List. Angel List even had the job posting for his old position. I still believe he's a junior developer. He didn't magically cram more than a year of development into that year. If anything he did less development. Out of his one year of experience some was spent as an instructor, not a developer, and many of his duties as Director of Product were management and not software development. In fact, he mentioned that as one of the reasons he wanted to leave that role. Some lessons are learned by doing things and dealing with the results. He hasn't been doing this long enough to see the long term consequences of any decisions he made while developing software at App Academy because those consequences haven't happened yet. Also, App Academy is a small company with about 10-20 people. Lots of things that aren't important with 10 people become very important on software projects with 100 people. None of what I said means he isn't intelligent or talented. It doesn't mean he didn't do good work while at App Academy or that he won't do good work at AirBnB. It just means he's inexperienced. That's not a bad thing but it isn't something you can change overnight.

JDiculous 10y ago
I think you're underrating the significance of the rate at which one is able to learn and acquire knowledge. I'd argue that this is actually more important than experience within a large organization with plenty of mentorship. This guy was able to accomplish a ton in a year, acquiring the technical chops to get offers at top companies like Google. If he can do that in one year, imagine where he'll be in another year.