Advice for Junior backend engineers who just started new jobs
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In this video I give some advice to junior backend engineers who just started their new jobs and feel overwhelmed. Backend engineering jobs can be overwhelming at the start, there are so much to learn, so much to read, documentation, tests, code in multiple programming languages. Here are some advice for Junior backend engineers.
0:00 Intro
1:20 Take your time
6:05 Stay hungry keep learning
8:36 Assume your collages know something you don’t
12:42 Don’t bad mouth other people code even if its bad
17:19 Question everything
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