Writing on Mentorship
Articles on Mentorship from Tauseef Fayyaz: practical writing on engineering, AI and tech careers, drawn from leading a team and mentoring engineers.
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Twelve Moves That Take You From Mid Level to Senior
Getting to mid level is mostly time and repetition, and then the path stops being clear. The thing that got you here, doing assigned work well, is not what the next level rewards, and nobody says so directly, so capable engineers respond by doing more of what already worked. Twelve heuristics for the part that is not obvious.
The Habits That Make an Engineer Worth Routing Work Through
Every team has one or two engineers other people route work through, and what they have in common is not raw technical strength. It is that when something is given to them it comes back, and when it will not, you hear about it early. Fifteen habits that build that reputation, none of which require a title or permission.
What to Do When You Are Stuck Learning to Code
There has never been more good material for learning to program and the failure rate has not improved, which tells you the bottleneck is not access to explanation. It is that watching someone else solve a problem feels exactly like learning and is not. Sixteen heuristics for the first year, mostly about what to do at the point where you are stuck.
Ten Books That Fill the Gap a CS Degree Leaves
You can finish a computer science degree without reading a word of Kleppmann, Feathers, Fowler or Brooks, and leave knowing algorithms but not how software is actually built, debugged and maintained by teams. Ten books grouped by the problem each one solves, with the thing that matters most: when in your career each will actually land.
What Actually Changes in Your First Two Years as an Engineer
Interviews test the small part of the job that is easy to test, and the rest is learned on site. Reading code as the main skill, how to ask a question that costs nothing, why small shipped changes beat large ones in progress, using code review as the fastest teaching you will get, and the four things that actually get people promoted, three of which are not about writing code.
How to Start Your Career as a Software Engineer
A practical route into the first software engineering job: pick one language and stop shopping, build things too big for a tutorial, learn the five fundamentals you cannot skip, get your code in front of a human, and apply earlier than you feel ready. Includes a twelve month shape to work to and an honest read on what the current entry level market has changed.
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