I'm a remote worker and I have a heavy guilt when I don't do anything after I complete all my sprint work. It's actually happening right now - we have a full day of "spring planning", but since I am shifted in time zones, not physically in the office, and free of real work, I feel guilty just using this day as a day of leisure.Is it fair to start on the next sprint's work?
Basically, I believe that Senior Engineer is much more than what this article claims. These points are all about mental strategies and confidence, but these have nothing to do with actual technical skill, or plain old experience.
I'm a software engineer at a SaaS company whose product is a large (mostly just complicated) java webapp. The company has seen a good amount of growth over one year and things are starting to explode on the software side of things. Mainly, the fact that the code is fragile spaghetti that has zero unit tests (untestable by design) and there is a lack of software development process.My issue is...
The most unusual situation I've seen when teaching (shit-tier university) was that some students couldn't look at a single ASM instruction and understand what it's doing after being explained the syntax:
ADD R1, R2, R3 ; R2 + R3 --> Store sum in R1
Block languages free the students by the burdens of syntax