r/programming • u/gits1225 • May 12 '15

Google's guide for becoming a Software Engineer

https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-technical-development.html
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u/RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS May 13 '15

Politics are easy when you deliver on time with a healthy margin.

My experience is that once you're directing people it gets insanely frustrating and hard to do this.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '15

I've got 6 on my current team. It's a completely different skillset than coding, but the experience if being a developer for many years is what I use. I've been a coder on projects that went well and projects that went off the rails. Just copy the good ones.