1-1s are core to management. Ad-hoc feedback delivery, bi-weekly check-ins with your directs, monthly meetings with your skip-levels, annual performance reviews. Their use cases are well-defined and well-understood. 1-1-1s, on the other hand, can be much more interesting. Significant progress can be made if you’re able to get the three…
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As a Junior IC How comfortable am I developing code and debugging issues? Could I give a presentation about my team? Do I know who to contact if I’m not sure how to solve a problem (besides my mentor)? Did I release a project end-to-end that required me to do…
Company culture. Extremely important, impossible to define. Impossible to define doesn’t mean impossible to understand. A surface-level understanding of culture is available via Glassdoor and company onboarding documents. However, a deep understanding of culture is only available via experience. This article focuses on a set of values often associated with…