Landing Your Next Developer Job

Sadek Drobi

How to Get a Mentor Without Telling Them

Erin Fox

Kent C. Dodds: Consume, build, and teach — and level up your career

Kent C. Dodds

Impact: Growing as an Engineer

Iris Schaffer

Lee Robinson's career advice: My golden rule to success is being helpful

Lee Robinson

Shawn Swyx Wang's career tips: Knowing how to market yourself is not scammy

Lessons To Outlive React

Shawn Swyx Wang

Effective Communication for Engineers

Engineers Learn to Negotiate

Naz Delam

Charlie Gerard's Career Advice: Be intentional about how you spend your time and effort

Charlie Gerard

Nouha Chhih

Francois Bohyn

Career tips by Tomasz Łakomy: I strive to challenge myself as often as I can

Tomasz Łakomy

A Career As Software Engineer

Michel Weststrate

When You Think There Is No Time for Learning or Coding

Eleftheria Batsou

Emma Bostian: I landed my dream job by sharing my blogs on Twitter

Emma Bostian

Catalin Pit: Each time I learn something new, I write an article about it

Catalin Pit

Jan Tomes

How To Design A Sustainable Freelance/Contracting Career + Speedcoding Challenge

Shane Ketterman

Designing A Sustainable Freelance Career

Alexander Weekes

Rodrigo Donini

On Becoming a Tech Lead

You Do Have Time to Build it Twice

Swizec Teller

Why Leetcode is Dead and Pair Programming for Interviews is the Way Forward

Mo Khazali

Purpose: What I Learned from Stepping Down as Team Lead Twice

Alex Ptakhin

Do You Really Have to Become a Manager to Advance in Your Career?

Marek Kalnik

Tired of Tech? Hit Reset with a Sabbatical or LOA

Kamran Ayub

Lessons Learned While Learning Live

Jenn Junod

The Unexpected Key Value Pair in Mentoring

Heather May

Sidney Buckner

Three Factors That are Blocking Contributions to Your Open Source Project

Saurav Jain

Preparing for Success: A Frontend Engineer's Guide to Tech Due Diligence

Armin Ayatollahi

TechLead Conference

TechLead Conference 2023

Tech lead sounds like a lot of work. And not the fun coding kind either. Why would you ever want that? What does it feel like when you get it?In this talk Swizec explains why he took the step towards technical leadership, how his priorities changed, and why it means he’s doing more engineering than ever. A whole new world where writing code is the easy part.

Your communication skills affect your career prospects, the value you bring to your company, and the likelihood of your promotion. This session helps you communicate better in a variety of professional situations, including meetings, email messages, pitches, and presentations.

React Advanced

React Advanced Conference 2022

Typically I talk a lot about deeply technical concepts like TypeScript, type systems, (im)mutability, MobX, Immer etc. But this time it's going to be personal and I'll share lessons, good and bad, about growing as an engineer. I've been leading open source projects, short lived projects as a freelancer and I went through the transition of engineer to tech lead twice. Both at a young startup and at Meta. This talk will be about personal experiences, unpopular opinions and even actions, and anything else that might be counterintuitive. Join for some take-aways for anyone aiming at an engineering focused career. Probably I will be wrong about most things, so don’t miss the opportunity to follow up afterwards!

React Summit

React Summit 2022

Becoming a web engineer is not easy, but there are tons of resources out there to help you on your journey. But where do you go from there? What do you do to keep growing, and to keep expanding the value you bring to your company? In this talk we’ll look at the different kinds of impact you can have as a web engineer. We’ll walk through what it means to take on bigger, more complex projects, and how to scale yourself, and grow the community around you. By driving our own development we can all grow our impact, and in this talk, we’ll discuss how to go about this.

React Day Berlin

React Day Berlin 2023

Imagine being a knight preparing for a jousting tournament, but your horse is more interested in the fair's hay bales than your impending duel. That's what prepping your tech department for an investment round or exit can feel like sometimes. This talk provides an in-depth look into the role of a frontend engineer, especially working with React, in preparing a tech department for an investment round or an exit. Through a unique lens of tech due diligence, the presentation uncovers the importance of good practices, solid architecture, efficient documentation, and more.

React Summit US

React Summit US 2023

When talking about contributing to open-source projects, it’s crucial to understand from a maintainer point of view what factors are stopping new contributors from contributing to your project. Whether your codebase is very overwhelming to the contributors for the first time or it  lacks good first issues and enough responsive response to their problems.  In this talk, I will explain how I built a campaign at Amplication that scaled the contributors from 30 to 200 in just one year and how it solved every problem I mentioned above.

Finding mentorship when beginning your professional journey can be hard, yet it is so vital to have this support to build confidence, and grow at each stage of the process.  5+ years ago, Sidney reached out to me on LinkedIn with questions about bootcamps.  I was finishing my first year at Stitch Fix and from that first GoogleMeet call, we have now met nearly every month and followed and supported each other throughout our respective journeys in engineering.  We have never worked together, and we’ve never met!  Join us as we meet for the first time in person and talk about how vital our pairing has been!

TS Congress

TypeScript Congress 2023

Talking in front of an audience = scary. Learning something new = scary. Let’s talk about doing scary learning something new, WHILE being in front of an audience! One year and 100+ videos streamed, learning TypeScript the way I learn, has helped it click in a snowball effect helping other topics ranging from Python to APIs make more sense. In this talk, the audience will walk away with an understanding of figuring out how you learn as an individual is a lifelong gift you never knew you needed.

React Summit 2023

Tech is tiring. Whether you’re trying to stay upskilled on the latest JavaScript framework or wading through toxic work swamps, it feels like burnout is constantly looming on the horizon. Sabbaticals and leaves of absence (LOAs) are two benefits you could take advantage of to catch a much-needed (and overdue) extended break. I’ve taken both, one time to live abroad in France for 6 months and the other time to take the summer off for 10 weeks, both at different Fortune 500 companies and each time they moved my career forward, not backward. I’ll walk through step-by-step how to figure out if you’re eligible for these benefits, break down the implications to insurance and job security in plain language, and illustrate some strategies on bridging the income gap so you can sleep at night. By the end you’ll walk away with the confidence to finally give yourself permission to reset and get excited about tech again.

We’ve all experienced the job application which required us to do an online coding test. You have to brush up on your algorithms, data structures, time complexity, and by the end of it you’re cramming as if it was a university exam! Now that we’re the ones usually interviewing candidates, a good question to ask is: “are online coding tests the best indicator of a candidate’s proficiency and competence?” In this talk, we’ll explore:<ul><li>- The pitfalls of Leetcode-like tests</li><li>- What we should be looking for in candidates</li><li>- How pair programming is the best way to see how a candidate would work with the team</li><li>- Plus a little mini demo on a remote pair programming interview</li></ul>

You start as a junior developer, happily delivering lines of code. Life is easy, you love your job, you are learning a lot. And then someone approaches you saying: "We need a tech leader for a new team, and you are the most experienced person available". You either become miserable or find your new calling, but your job is not really what it was before. And then someone approaches you saying: "We are looking for a new engineering manager, and you are the most experienced person available".Is that really the most optimal career path? What could we do differently? Let's have a look at your talents and the talents needed for the job.There are many different jobs in tech: writing code, leading teams, managing people and projects, helping others use your technology, teaching, research, debugging.

I know developers feel doubts of choosing the IC role over a manager or vice versa. I'll tell about my own road how to find own purpose doing things I like.

Mentorship has a reputation of taking a lot of time and work. But what if it wasn't? Here are ways to get a mentor, be a mentor, and how to navigate it. I have always worked on getting mentors in every corner of my engineering career. I have mentors that do not even know they are my mentor. But I like it that way. I will go into how to get a mentor at any stage of your engineering career and how to be a good mentor/mentee.

If you don’t have time to build it right, when will you have time to build it twice? In hyper growth startups the old adage breaks down. You get an expanding time horizon – IF you can get it shipped. An imperfect feature next week beats the perfect feature 2 months from now. Your code won’t matter if you’re dead. I didn’t believe this until I saw it myself. A startup on the cusp of hockeystick hired me to rewrite their jQuery app in React. Their tech proved the idea then became a burden. Over the next year we rewrote the whole app from scratch, grew a team of React experts, created a codebase that’s a joy to work with, and got the company to a $100,000,000 Series B. All because the early engineers knew that if the crappy version works out, there’s going to be time and resources to fix it later. This talk is about what I’ve learned while rewriting an app with users banging down the door.

JSNation Live

JSNation Live 2020

In this session, I am going to share my story on how I started coding, how I make time to work on side projects and how you can grow and advance in your career. After this talk, I hope you'll be inspired to work smarter, make new habits and continue pushing yourself even when things fall apart. I will present some helpful tips about self-motivation, time management, setting priorities and goals, staying organized, believing in yourself and keeping a balance between your career and personal life. Additionally, in this session, we are going to talk about building the habit of coding and the benefits of it. We are going to explore ways of finding mentors in your job and outside of it and also expanding your social network. This talk is not only about getting better at your 9 to 5 job but also about developing yourself. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

React Summit Remote Edition

React Summit Remote Edition 2021

When people ask me the most important skill I can learn to become better at my job and get promotions, I always tell them: The art of communication and human interaction. When working as engineers we are interacting with many people on daily basis. It is crucial for us to learn how to negotiate and persuade people. In this talk, we will cover 3 main techniques to become a better negotiator. these techniques can help us interact with others more effectively, get our projects approved, get promoted easier and even help us in our life. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

There was a time before React, and there will be life after. If you tie yourself too closely to any technology, you might trap yourself and miss the next wave. Let's zoom out from the state management library du jour — what timeless lessons can we learn from React? In the talk I'll discuss lessons I've learned from studying React that I will take with me for the rest of my career.

Ready to kickstart your freelance career or just getting started on your freelance journey? You’re in the right spot. Learn from the world’s largest fully distributed workforce in the world. The independent talent movement is the future of work. If you’re considering leaving full-time employment for a career as a freelancer, now is the time to find your successful space in the independent talent workforce. <a href="https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/top-freelance-career-fields/">More people are working freelance</a> today than ever before, with the freelance marketplace now contributing $1.2 trillion to the US economy. Some of the most <a href="https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/top-freelance-career-fields/">in-demand roles</a> for freelancers right now are senior developers with professional experience in React, Python, Blockchain, QA, and Node.js. This workshop will help you design a sustainable and profitable full-time (or part-time) freelancing/contracting career. We will give you tools, tips, best practices, and help you avoid common pitfalls. At the end of the workshop there will be a Q&amp;A session with a Freelance Developer who can answer your questions and provide insights and tips into their own success. During the Workshop break, we will be running a speed-coding challenge! At the end of the workshop, we will award a prize for the winner and display the leaderboard. We will have you login to our portal and complete the challenge as fast as you can to earn points. Points are assigned based on difficulty and the speed at which you solve the tasks. In case you complete all tasks, you get extra points for the remaining time. You’ll see your score, ranking, and the leaderboard once you complete the challenge. We will be giving away three Amazon Gift Cards ($200, $100, $75) for the top three winners.

Renaud Bressant (Head of Product), Nathanael Lamellière (Head of Customer Success and Solution Engineer), Nouha Chhih (Developer Experience Manager) will be looking at the different developer jobs that you can accounter when looking for your next developer role. We'll be explaining the specifics of each role, to help you identify which one could be your next move. We'll also be sharing tips to help you navigate the recruitment process, based on the different roles we interviewed for as recruiters, but also as candidates. This will be more of an Ask Us Anything session, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts and questions during the session. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

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