Description:Is it time to become a manager? Nest and vest? Join that start-up? Tell your boss he's a jerk? Resign in disgust? As a software engineer, at some point you realize that there's much more to your career than dealing with code. Author Michael Lopp recalls his own make-or-break moments with Silicon Valley giants such as Apple, Borland, Netscape, and Symantec in Being Geek -- the insightful and entertaining book that may help you make better decisions about your career. Through a series of entertaining stories, Lopp walks through a complete job lifecycle, starting with the job search and finishing with the realization it might be time to look again. Plenty of books teach you how to interview for a job, or how to manage a project successfully, but only this book will help you handle many of the baffling circumstances you may encounter in your career. • Understand your boss with the chapter on "Manager Management"• Boost your career through networking with "We Travel in Tribes"• Deliver effective presentations, with "How Not to Throw Up"• Manage and actively participate in meetings, with "What's On the Agenda?"• Realize when you should be looking for a new gig, with "The Itch"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook. To get started finding Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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318
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Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook
Description: Is it time to become a manager? Nest and vest? Join that start-up? Tell your boss he's a jerk? Resign in disgust? As a software engineer, at some point you realize that there's much more to your career than dealing with code. Author Michael Lopp recalls his own make-or-break moments with Silicon Valley giants such as Apple, Borland, Netscape, and Symantec in Being Geek -- the insightful and entertaining book that may help you make better decisions about your career. Through a series of entertaining stories, Lopp walks through a complete job lifecycle, starting with the job search and finishing with the realization it might be time to look again. Plenty of books teach you how to interview for a job, or how to manage a project successfully, but only this book will help you handle many of the baffling circumstances you may encounter in your career. • Understand your boss with the chapter on "Manager Management"• Boost your career through networking with "We Travel in Tribes"• Deliver effective presentations, with "How Not to Throw Up"• Manage and actively participate in meetings, with "What's On the Agenda?"• Realize when you should be looking for a new gig, with "The Itch"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook. To get started finding Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.