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> The best asset I have is being able to learn new stuff well quickly. Getting a wife range of experience is extremely useful and allows you to get to the point
by t-writescode 5y ago
> The best asset I have is being able to learn new stuff well quickly. Getting a wife range of experience is extremely useful and allows you to get to the point where you inuit how stuff works easily.
A great deal of pain can occur by standing up a lot of things you've never worked with, very quickly, and then moving on to the next thing. Not knowing the best practices and the pain of time with those tools and services may lead to some major technical debt down the line that future teams have to suffer with.
- bostonsre 5y agoYep, absolutely agreed. Fire hosing out infrastructure that you didn't take the time to learn and understand properly is a recipe for a disaster. I think humility is crucial, you need to understand what you know and what you don't know and be open to the unknown unknowns as well. Being a part of great complimentary teams will also help a ton. If you're junior, you probably shouldn't be designing massively complex infrastructure or dev projects. But if you work with a more senior person that lays out the plan for the infrastructure or project, then you do the work for that project while being shepherded by that senior engineer, it is an incredible learning experience.
- t-writescode 5y agoSometimes there isn't a senior engineer for that position, so you get to learn it all, yourself :/ When there's only a few engineers at a company, people aren't going to be experts in everything they end up needing to do.