10 things that made me a senior developer

In this video, I'm sharing 10 of the most important lessons I've learned in my path to becoming a senior software engineer.

Thanks to my teammate Mateusz Wójcik for reviewing the script, and my other colleagues who acted in the office scenes - Krzysztof Piszko and Mikołaj Robakowski 🎉

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Table of contents:

0:00 - Introduction

1:19 - Lesson 1 - Calm your perfectionism
2:37 - Lesson 2 - Make informed decisions
3:50 - Lesson 3 - Production above all
5:23 - Lesson 4 - Be a problem solver
6:30 - Lesson 5 - Pick your battles
8:18 - Lesson 6 - Forget the labels
8:51 - Lesson 7 - Stand out
10:04 - Lesson 8 - Share your knowledge
10:53 - Lesson 9 - Keep learning
11:28 - Lesson 10 - Take your time

[alexplom]

Absolutely great content and helpful concrete points. I could only add something that I have personally experienced to differentiate between "senior" and "non-senior" developers. And that is: responsibility. I believe that is the single most important trait that helps you stand out and become a great developer.

[Awethon]

9:27 10/10 transition
10:46 it's like a photo stock meme but in video format
11:37 *clearly wants to take his time on sick leave*

[deathbombs]

Junior = learning how to do things, what's good and bad
Senior = making choices based on knowing the "what"

[spongechameleon]

Thinking of features as "user problems" and not "software problems" is so powerful. My application generates qr codes in bulk that redeem products when scanned. One customer wanted the qr codes to point to random products. We could've added that feature in code, but we solved the same problem by telling the customer to just distribute the qr codes randomly. Saved everybody time and unnecessary complexity.

[iakobkv]

So much information in 10 minutes. Kudos!

[crystalkewe]

Such great advice Jakub, that's rarely available on the internet. Thanks for sharing mate!

[marcosandoval]

"If you're not moving forward, you're moving backward".

Powerful.

Thank you! Congrats from Venezuela.

[kamyarnemati]

Hi Jakub, thank you for sharing these points. It's nice to have your channel now in my favorite ones!

[nromancarcamo]

I can see you’re a truly senior, I feel related with many things you mentioned, although I think it’s time to make more adjustments.

Thanks!.

[mehrandvm]

This video is so underrated. thanks for the amazing advice!

[Grantrude]

Love this content and attitude. I couldn't agree more.

[junglegoose]

Great video, great delivery, thank you!

[munaar]

Thank you for all of these precious insights, and congratulations

[MatDGVLL]

I can’t agree more with your point of view!

[harrisfpv]

"If you haven't had a production issue recently, read some postmortems from other companies, maybe they are dealing with problems you've never dreamed about"

That is some really good advice. Do you have any suggestions on how to find these though? Feels like companies don't make that kind of documents public.

[hazemhatem]

"find your limit and stay away from it "

Powerful.

Thank you!

[keifer]

Maybe that "Senior JavaScript developer" guy from the ad I keep getting should watch this

[florianwicher]

"Take your time, this is not a sprint."
Scrum masters: "Yes it is" 😂

[swagatochatterjee]

Hi Jakub. I always find it easy to crack interviews, but find it difficult to perform well on the job. I mean I have issues setting up estimates, or rather failing to meet them; and at times get blocked on tech issues which my code isn't introducing but getting generated by say the testing platform which is kind of dependent on others but cant get self unblocked by taking shortcuts. Or say coming up with requirements doc, along with all alternative POCs taking time. All these things in turn bring in minor releases to production. I would say these are the only reasons why I am not getting promoted, although I can churn out code pretty fast. Can you suggest how I can overcome this?

[framebush]

thank you for advice. Now creating something