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When you have more people using your Java APIs, your projects grow and naturally you become a better engineer. You become more likely to increase your incomes and join great new projects. It also enables people to get their jobs done faster. So it’s a win-win situation.
To keep those people who already use your API and attract more, you need to eliminate these 4 mistakes.
It has been years since I last updated my series on career growth for engineers. You can view the two original parts here and here, but I’ll summarize each as part of this third, and I think the final article on the subject (though I reserve the right to later change my mind).
These previous articles represented my own journey to date, and in attempting to summarize my observations and successes I found a large audience of people looking to do the same. This article is both a summary and extension, a synopsis and synthesis of my new experiences, now almost four years after I published the original article.
After continuously working in an office environment for 4 years I realized that working remotely was a better choice for me. As a developer, it is impossible to sit and work for 8 hours straight. It decreases productivity and you are at risk of Repetitive Stress Injury.
Working remotely comes with awesome benefits. Each benefit alone is enough to question a normal 9-5 routine. For me, the biggest influencing factor that pushed me to remote work was its amazing flexibility of time.
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When I learned the other day that Gen Z women in tech are twice as likely as millennials to want to work for big, prestigious companies – think Google, Apple, Facebook – I would be lying if I said my first reaction wasn’t akin to what Southerners would call a ‘bless your heart’ moment.