Muddling Through The Middle Bits: what comes after Junior and before Senior
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Muddling Through The Middle Bits: what comes after Junior and before Senior
There’s a ton of advice out there for junior developers: how to grow your skills, how to contribute effectively without a lot of experience, how to ask good questions. Likewise, there’s a lot of good advice for senior developers on how lead and mentor effectively and how to leverage their knowledge and experience. Left out are the people in between those two extremes: the developers who aren’t junior anymore, but haven’t risen to truly “senior developer” status.How do you get from junior to senior? Perhaps it's just a matter of time: Junior Dev + 5 years = Senior Dev? Is it some combination of depth and breadth of knowledge? Are team skills or technical ones the most important in this transition? How do you know you've crossed into senior territory? For that matter, how do you know you're no longer a junior? Let’s explore this squishy middle area, its landmarks and signposts, and try to find a personalized map of the mid-career.
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Anne is an iOS developer Detroit Labs, where she is constantly delighted by the niftiness of Swift. Passionate about clean code, craft cocktails, and nice yarn, she dreams of an elegantly-designed app that pairs cocktails with knitting patterns. She is contractually required to mention her three-legged cat, Wobbles.
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7:00 - Food / Mingling
7:30 - Talk begins
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LOCATION:
Detroit Labs
1520 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI 48226
PARKING: Flat fee parking is available at the Detroit Opera House parking structure or metered parking is available on the streets.
IS THIS EVENT CATERED: Yes! Thank you to our Sponsor, Detroit Labs!
QUESTIONS? I love answering questions, it makes me feel smart! If you have additional questions or would like to talk further, please contact James York (james.york@detroitlabs.com) or Anne Cahalan (anne@detroitlabs.com).