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This is the best answer here. You've come to the conclusion that you're good at coding alone, but you don't know how to do it well in a team or company— your te
by mitchellst 8y ago
This is the best answer here. You've come to the conclusion that you're good at coding alone, but you don't know how to do it well in a team or company— your team and company. Other answers frame this as a technology problem (patterns and practices) but you'll hack it faster as an acculturation task. Get mentors. Plural. Grab one person in each department where you feel shaky— QA's, solutions architects, operations, maybe product, etc. Tell them you're new at this and you want to ask them questions and work closely with them to get better. (This will not offend them and it will not make them look down on you. If it does, you don't want what they're selling anyway.) Two months into asking them for code reviews and just taking them to lunch and asking about things you know they care about in their areas of responsibility, you'll notice results in terms of your own thinking and output. 1 year in, you'll be very, very good at this.
- mertd 8y agoI was in the same boat as the op. Dove in head first into a software engineering role. Ended up working with the only true 10x'er I have known to this day. Nothing improves you faster than getting feedback from someone like that.