FIVE CAREER MISTAKES MADE BY DEVELOPERS

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Five Career Mistakes Made By Developers
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• There are many career motivational thoughts and
  phrases one can easily find, but the path to make
  your way to the top position in the development
  phase is unclear and can at times lead to
  unexpected career end.
• The key to a successful dev career involves
  symmetry and not staying with one stack or job
  for too long can be bad for your career graph,
  but at the same time one should also be switching
  languages and employers to grow professionally.

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• All developers have their story of wrong steps or
  decisions made in their professional life but it
  is much better to learn from the experiences of
  others and avoid blunder errors.

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1. Staying Too Long

• People have different opinions on how long should
  one stay in a company as in many cases it is a
  badge of honour for some who have survived and
  thrived in the same organization for decades, and
  for some it might have been a wrong decision to
  work with all their loyalty to their company and
  then being a target of downsizing the company.
• It is a common perception that the longer you
  stay at one position, the more your skills and
  pay stagnates, making you bored and restless.

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2. Job Jumping

• Higher management are always wanting to have devs
  that can stay at their organization for as long
  as possible, as they spend lot of money on their
  employees training, but switching jobs can give
  exposure to lot of different techniques and
  technologies.
• Those who shift from one place to another quite
  often may not be able to know the complete
  lifecycle of the project. Stability and project
  completion often favour the employers
  requirements while hiring other than technical
  skills, dependability and more often culture fit.

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3. Passing on a promotion

• Moving into management is a career change and one
  should be cautious and thoughtful while taking
  such a decision.
• It requires a different set of skills for
  employees to move into management as it is not
  simply a logical progression of the technical
  track.
• Many companies push good technical talent into
  management as the company feels its rewarding
  for the employee, but it may turn as a blunder
  for both the manager and the company.
• Its better to stay in development rather than
  being an unhappy and overloaded manager, without
  any real power.

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4. Ignoring your junior developers

• If one is too focussed on his/her own career
  track and is indifferent towards the junior
  developers, then this could lead to adverse
  consequences.
• Its always a good idea to team up with young
  programmers and mentor them which is not only
  beneficial for your project but also helps you to
  build better soft skills.
• Also, one gets a deeper knowledge of the subject
  by teaching and sharing it with others.

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5. Sticking to one stack

• It can be hurting in long term, if one is only
  focussed on a single stack and it may make you an
  invaluable resource of your company.
• It is important to update your skill set quite
  often and just be updated about the latest
  technological developments in your own and other
  domains as well.

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• Its impossible to survive for your entire career
  on just a single development language or tool.
• Example
• If one is an expert in Java and has been working
  on it for around a decade, but is not comfortable
  with programming in JavaScript, it could lead to
  a very negative impression on your seniors and
  they would prefer a multi-skilled developer with
  may be lesser experience than you.

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