Data & Dev with Jon and Mel

S2E4: Vic Vijayakumar - Looking at the arc of a Software Engineering career

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This was a great conversation with Vic Vijayakumar. We covered MANY topics, including:

  • Importance of hobbies outside of work
  • Job titles across companies
  • What “good” onboarding looks like for a Junior Engineer
  • How Vic got into programming
  • Computer Engineering vs. Computer Science as a major
  • Gaining an intuition about code
  • Looking at Software engineering less as “the tech industry” and more about using technology to help enable people to do the things they want to do
  • Helping researchers communicate about their work
  • Picking a language that is most appropriate for the job at hand
  • How to get up to speed in a new language
  • Skills gained in the early years of a career
  • How learning on the side can help one’s career
  • Compensation over Vic’s career
  • Manager vs. IC role
  • Founding Engineer role
  • Handling interview nerves
  • Talking in interviews
  • Work mistake - causing email spam
  • Importance of networking through meetups, or even Reddit
  • Ways to test whether software engineering is for you

    • You can find Vic on his own webpage as well as on Twitter and LinkedIn.

    Take a listen to Vic's podcast here.

    We talked about finding salary data at Levels.fyi

    And "trying out" programming, which you can do at Codecademy.

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