#83 - Don't Take The Easy Path - Jennifer Wong (Engineering Leader)

08/08/24 • 37 min

The Work Item - Real Talk on Tech's Toughest Career Choices

Jennifer Wong is a seasoned engineering manager who started her journey in civil engineering. The fast pace of the tech industry drew her in, and she stuck with it for years since making that call. In this episode, I chat with Jennifer about her transition from a non-traditional career path into software, reasons to take on management instead of being an individual contributor, and why taking the road less traveled in terms of career progression might just be the recipe for long-term growth and success.

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The podcast was produced by Den Delimarsky. Music by Wataboi from Pixabay.

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The podcast was produced by Den Delimarsky. Music by Wataboi from Pixabay.

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Craig Hewitt, the founder of the podcasting platform Castos, comes from generations of entrepreneurs, and his own journey builds on the experience and stamina of those that came before him. In this show, we chat about best practices for hiring developers for your bootstrapped startup, finding the right approach to deliver hard news, and how to ensure that your relationships aren't hurt as you embark on the entrepreneurship treadmill.

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#84 - Tools Do Not Matter - Jason Lengstorf (Founder, Learn With Jason)

If you've been immersed in the tech world for some time, you probably have heard one specific YouTube channel mentioned more than once - Learn With Jason. It's a project started by Jason Lengstorf, a former VP of developer experience at a web tooling startup (he was a head of developer relations prior to that too), that is aimed at helping everyone navigate the always changing landscape of developer tools and frameworks. Which, by the way, according to Jason do not matter.

In this show, we dive deep in Jason's career path and focus on the less known aspects of climbing the career ladder - things like amassing political capital by doing great work, building visibility by meaningful means that can help cement your reputation, and being able to address business problems as a mechanism to build trust in your own leadership abilities.

You can find Jason on the following sites:

The podcast was produced by Den Delimarsky. Music by Wataboi from Pixabay.