20 Questions To Ask Your Next Employer
0How do you pick your employer? How do you get a great job in software development? Programming jobs aren’t all the same. What makes a good job in software is subjective, obviously, it depends on what you are looking for, but there are some generic characteristics that statistically predict that people working in these places will enjoy their work more and have lower rates of burn-out and improved scores in things like work/life balance. So how do you get a job in software that is more rewarding, more fun and will challenge you to get better at the things that you love? How do you find the jobs that will help you to become a better SW developer?
This probably all sounds too good to be true, but in this episode, Dave Farley, author of "Continuous Delivery" and "Modern Software Engineering”, offers his advice on how to pick great employers. He describes the things that you should explore, when looking for a new job, to decide if a potential employer is only talking a good game, rather than playing a good game.
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🔗 LINKS:
Daniel Pink - TED Talk “The Puzzle of Motivation” ➡️ https://youtu.be/rrkrvAUbU9Y
Daniel Pink - Drive ➡️ https://youtu.be/LFlvor6ZHdY
Accelerate, The science of Lean Software and DevOps, by Nicole Fosgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim ➡️ https://amzn.to/2YYf5Z8
DORA - State of DevOps Research ➡️ https://www.devops-research.com/research.html
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📚 BOOKS:
🚨 📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is now available here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3
In this book, Dave brings together his ideas and proven techniques to describe a durable, coherent and foundational approach to effective software development, for programmers, managers and technical leads, at all levels of experience.
📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley
paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA
ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines
📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx
NOTE: If you click on one of the Amazon Affiliate links and buy the book, Continuous Delivery Ltd. will get a small fee for the recommendation with NO increase in cost to you.
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