Mike Brevoort - Platform Architect at Slack

Talking Points: Management and Individual Contributor roles Career Awareness and Growth Technology Acceleration Transferability of skills between programming languages Negative aspects of a generalist career path Hirable aspects of an applicant Quotable Quotes: “It’s hard to be really serious about being good at [ either management or individual contributor ] and do each well.” - MB “If you want to be a really great manager you really have to care about people. You have to invest your time with those people.” - MB “Projecting where you want to be in 5 years … is enough for a perspective shift.” - MB “If you are not deliberate [ about your career path ] it’s not going to happen.” - MB “The knowledge and the things that [ flash developers ] did and their capabilities really translated into other technologies.” - DG “We tend to overestimate these [ technological ] shifts; that we’ll be left behind.” - MB “Everyone’s path is different, but there is a lot of commonalities and there is a lot that you gain from your experience over time.” - MB “There are multiple skills or attributes of a person that are more important than the proficiency of the framework that you are using.” - MB “The thing that separates a lot of engineers from others is just your drive and ability to adapt and solve problems.” - MB “There’s no substitute for becoming deeply proficient in some technology.” - MB “When it comes down to it, this isn’t a single-player game. You have to work with teams of people.” - MB Notes: Mike Brevoort's Twitter twitter.com/mbrevoort LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/mikebrevoort GitHub github.com/mbrevoort Junior to Senior Community community.juniortosenior.io