Earlier in career - team vs scope?

Twitter
wgnC75

Go to company page Twitter

wgnC75
Oct 21, 2018 6 Comments

Curious to know what other people think and why. What's more important earlier in your career: being surrounded by the best team or having a lot of opportunities for scope to increase? (Basically would you choose learning through having great mentors around you or learning through doing and why)

60 PARTICIPANTS SELECT ONLY ONE ANSWER
VOTE VIEW RESULT
6

comments

Want to comment? LOG IN or SIGN UP
  1. TOP
  2. RECENT
  3. OLD
 TOP 6 Comments
  • You should have both.
    Oct 21, 2018 2
    • Rubrik
      anosox

      Go to company page Rubrik

      anosox
      Agreed, both are important. If one had to be absent, I think mentorship would be more important. You can always take the initiative to work on more things.
      Oct 21, 2018
    • For context I had a mentor when I joined the team but he got all the high impact, visible projects. I got an idea of good dev practices through them but had the chance to grow as en engineer by taking those learnings and building the same things myself when he switched teams
      Oct 21, 2018
  • New / Design
    nerds

    New Design

     nerds
    I think having a mentor is more important. They get to know how you work, can introduce you to other people, and help you out in the future.
    Oct 21, 2018 2
    • Twitter
      wgnC75

      Go to company page Twitter

      wgnC75
      OP
      How do you find mentors?
      Oct 21, 2018
    • New / Design
      nerds

      New Design

       nerds
      @op you can always express that you are hoping for someone to be a mentor to you (if you're interviewing). Maybe someone at Senior level who would be willing to. Or take a course and develop that mentorship with your professor.
      Oct 22, 2018