Confidence

  • Traits of Confident People
    • Postures: How we look?
      • Smooth gestures
      • More eye contacts
      • Gain the command of the room
    • Time
      • Take my time to do things in my pace

Career Path

  • Avoid decision/analysis paralysis
    • Do not spend weeks/months to figure out what to do.
    • Just do it and switch course as needed.
  • Ignore "follow your passion"
    • Most people don't know what is their "passion"
    • Hence, the passion can be only discover through doing
  • Focus on the PEOPLE
    • People are the most important contributor to your success
  • Access new opportunity
    • Impact
  • Alignment with the business
    • The value of your work for the business
    • Impact and be valued
    • Work on high priority projects
    • Try to work on the CORE of the business / project

Imposter Syndrome

  • Accept imposter syndrome
  • Problem solving
    • Decompose the problem and get started
    • Keep a job diary and track how you spend your time
  • Asking questions
    • Asking > being stuck
    • do not spend more than 15/30 mins been stuck
    • articulating the questions helps you learn - write it down
    • build social capital if done correctly
  • Ramping up on a new team
    • career cold-start algorithm
      • Find someone on the team and meet them for 30 mins
      • Asks them for a brain dump of
        1. what they do?
        2. biggest challenges
        3. who else to meet
      • repeat the above process until the same names start coming up in num 3
  • Get high-quality feedback
    • ambiguity causes anxiety
    • schedule dedicated 1:1s for feedback, ask questions which force deeper reflections - with mgr and techlead - ask deeper questions
      • e.g. last week during the xxx meeting, i does not feel well and dont know how to contribute. what suggestion/feedback do you have on that specific meeting
    • in code reviews, proactively identify areas where you have concerns or questions
  • Helping others
    • Create a friendly environment: encourage questions

Routines and Skills

  • Brag Document
    • Record the event in detail every time when you have done something impactful
  • Balance between low and high impactful tasks
    • Do not waste all of the time on low impact tasks
    • Keep a good balance between low and high impact tasks
  • Interview Skills (as an Interviewer)
    • Active listening
    • Communication
    • Calibrate the skill to rate other engineers