Grow Your Software Engineer Career

I see young engineers falling constantly into the same traps and mistakes. From the ones who are unable to articulate the problem they are trying to solve to the ones engaging in religious debates, I am becoming a boomer who can give some advice to the younger generations.

In the following weeks, I will be writing a series of posts about growing your software engineer career. I will publish one post a week. If you want to receive the posts as they come, consider subscribing (it’s free).

Why this series? Because I made the same mistakes young engineers typically do — and I sometimes keep falling in the same traps (less often, tho — I am becoming wiser with age). And I start to think I have enough experience to give some advice since I worked in different domains:

• academia (getting a PhD in France, teaching at EPITA and working at Carnegie Mellon University)

• governmental agencies (European Space Agency)

• tech (Amazon, Twitter and now Datadog)

• startups (bootstrapped a startup that got eventually acquired)

Note that I believe that my opinion is biased towards a given population: I am based in the US, have a terrible accent (so I had to work hard on my communication skills — this will take a post on its own) and spent more time in some domains than others. So take it with a grain of salt.