This is an inspiring article for all the students out there, especially when it comes to understanding the industry environment, building that personal brand and figuring out that if software engineering will be your thing, one needs to deep dive all in!

Hackathons are something that helped me a lot as a student to expand skills, try new technologies, network and have the satisfaciton of finishing something in a short amount of time!

Great advices. There are great and bad managers, and there are managers who have been in turn managed in different ways, or focus and can help their directs in different ways, sometimes not holistically.

It's not necessarily only on the manager to own the career of the direct, the direct needs to facilitate it themselves too as you have highlighted.

I think a personal and professional development plan can bring everything together too, and one can put create one on their own then consult the manager on the items that the manager can provide opportunities for ( https://adriannenu.medium.com/make-a-personal-personal-development-plan-530ebc99017e ).

Great article, we probably need more of these, as the impostor syndrome is ever presentI I think also figuring out a few framework to help one navigate what may seem as stressful or unachieveable, such as splitting the problem into smaller and smaller problems till they reach a level that seems very achievable and comfortable.

I strongly disagree with this view. As an interviewing I have always reviewing GitHub profiles when provided and considered them a plus, compared with them not being mentioned at all.

Perhaps I am a dying breed however.

I do strongly believe having the GitHub profile, at least and especially as a junior showcases some level of passion and interest, and some level of confidence.

However, also having a profile that contains only a university script is not valuable.

I would argue a worthwhile CTO would look out for the same, even if they wouldn't analyse lines of code. I'd expect them to have a prefunctory look. Let's consider Eilon Mustk reviewing your CV, you think he would not review your GitHub profile if you provided it and your CV arrive on his table?

This is one of the lesson I feel most for! Many times investments even if small in nature can have a sunk cost fallacy effect. And by not moving on one can end up incurring even more cost on themselves! Mentally and materially sometimes.

I agree that starting simple makes all the difference. The demo themes have a lot of content and it can be extremely overwhelming when you find yourself face to face with the challenge of populating your website to the same extent and quality standards.

Great article!