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Pros
The advice is specific for people who spend their days at a desk. I support devs, engineer the systems they develop for, admin their servers. This book is like a blueprint for developers' professional life. It teaches you how to learn and how to grow ... Read More
Time is increasingly scarce. The updates in this edition make it well worth the price for the added and updated content.
The book shows you where the pitfalls are so you're ready before you encounter them and trains you how to be. The book also lays out several career tracks that you can pursue on your way to a successful career.
This is the second book by john sonmez that i've purchased. I highly recommend it to any software developer desiring to get a leg up in the industry. John has plenty of gems and i'm only through the third chapter.
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Quality
Personally i sacrificed a lot of my personal wellbeing to keep up with the insane workload at my last job and it took a huge to... Read More
The updates in this edition make it well worth the price for the added and updated content
As many techies i would be happy to just write code but the interpersonal relationships branding strategies and mindset are wha... Read More
John is a friendly honest smart and hard worker man beside his generosity in sharing his knowledge with the others
Price
Dont look at the cost think of the value you receive and the value far exceeds the cost
Competitiveness
In present times it isnt necessary to only have technical skills i believe that social skills your mindset and the ability to m... Read More
He also has great ideas about getting a mentor
After reading the complete software developers career guide and listening to his podcasts buying this book was a nobrainer
At age sixty i have finally found a mentor
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- This product had a total of 176 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 14 2022.
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Nowadays its really important for software developers to have good soft skills
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This is a comprehensive nontechnical guide to success in software
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Before reading this book i would clock into work each day and try to get stuff done but i would end up not getting what i wanted finished and leave feeling unsatisfied
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You will benefit from it even if you are not a software developer
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After reading the complete software developers career guide and listening to his podcasts buying this book was a nobrainer
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I first learned about the author when i read his book the complete software developers career guide
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We settled on software development
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The book has great advices for all software engineers whether they are starting their career or have years of experience
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