Personal and direct Notes from Frontend Masters Course “Software Developer Success: Soft Skills & Testing”
- Ask specific questions
- “How am I doing?” is not helpful
- Ask instead, for example:
- Is there something I could have done for [task] better? What areas do you think I could improve upon?
- Do you have any suggestions for how I can take on more responsibility or expand my role?
- What goals or objectives should I focus on in the upcoming months?
- How do you gain visibility into my work?
Asking for help (without triggering Imposter Syndrome)
How
Treat each Q&A session as an opportunity to build trust
- Show your due diligence
- Collaborate on a final solution
- Never say “I need help”.
- Say “Hey, I tried this, which resulted to this. Here are the other things I tried, and then this is what happened. Now this is my hypothesis, but I ran out of time. What do you think about that?
- Clarify assumptions
- Express gratitude
Reference
Software Developer Success: Soft Skills & Testing
