F29: Сareer path | coder or engineer | remote work | CTO or a startup | project fails
Programmer's Philosophy in Q&A Format (Every Friday at 18:00 UTC+3)
Whether to switch professions in your late 20s, how to become a better engineer if you don’t enjoy coding, and the dangers of radical career changes.
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00:00 Greetings
00:19 How do you successfully change career paths?
02:29 What do you recommend to develop abstract thinking for a coder who wants to become a software engineer?
06:37 How should you proceed in a dramatic change in professional field?
10:31 Is it worth it to move to small towns due to remote work?
15:54 Why not hire two junior programmers instead of one senior programmer?
24:06 Accept the CTO position and shut down your startup?
32:42 Is it the project manager's fault if the project fails?
36:27 Where are you now?
36:50 What do you recommend doing when changing roles?
41:32 Is it worth it to change companies?
45:07 How do you leave a company where you are valued but you want to develop further?
46:39 Should programmers build CI/CD pipelines or DevOps people?
52:21 How to learn English if you are already 25 years old?
57:27 I wrote 369 lines of code in a month. Is that normal?