num_pages: 256
description: Software engineering education has a universities and bootcamps teach aspiring engineers to write code but they leave graduates to teach themselves the countless supporting tools required to thrive in real software companies. Building a Career in Software is the solution a comprehensive guide to the essential skills that instructors don't need and professionals never think to landing jobs choosing teams and projects asking good questions running meetings going on-call debugging production problems technical writing making the most of a mentor and much more. In over a decade building software at companies such as Apple and Uber Daniel Heller has mentored and managed tens of engineers from a variety of training backgrounds and those engineers inspired this book with their hundreds of questions about career issues and day-to-day problems. Designed for either random access or cover-to-cover reading it offers concise treatments of virtually every non-technical challenge you will face in the first five years of your careeras well as a selection of industry-focused technical topics rarely covered in training. Whatever your education or technical specialty Building a Career in Software can save you years of trial and error and help you succeed as a real-world software professional.What You Will LearnWho This Book is ForSoftware engineers either early in their careers or about to transition to the professional world; that is all graduates of computer science or software engineering university programs and all software engineering boot camp participants.
language: English
title: Building a Career in Software: A Comprehensive Guide to Success in the Software Industry
publisher: Apress