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0:43 · 13 February 2023

How To Get Promoted As A Developer (Even In A Recession)

Key concepts in this video:

1. Finding Areas for Improvement

Developers can stand out and work toward a promotion by proactively identifying and improving untested pieces of code, slow CI/CD pipelines, lacking documentation, tooling, and messy database schemas.

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Transcript

if you're looking to get promoted as a developer in the next couple of months you're gonna have to stand out I mean the tech Market is on a downturn we've seen layoffs we've seen raising living costs this doesn't mean it's impossible to get a promotion right now but it's just a bit trickier to stand out you need to go that extra mile here are a few things for you to really stand out and get that promotion number one look for untested pieces of code which might need a unit test number two cicd pipelines which could be a bit faster number three documentation that can always be extended number four tooling