Hi all, Disclaimer: Please anyone don’t take it personally. I am an introvert by nature and almost completing 9 years in the industry. I am not good at anything but I am a generalist and get things done. I am not on FB and on Twitter just as a passive follower. Now, I am seeing a trend here, specially in the front end community that lost of young folks who are all day tweeting are either getting promoted early in the career or are able to switch jobs easily. Don’t want to take names but it makes me believe that either I am too stupid or they all are genius. I am saying that because it take considerable effort to write good code, document it and do the team meeting let alone working towards promotion. I am not sure how in the hell one can get to tweet pictures of their cat, Spotify track, dress or random jokes all day. For me it’s quite draining to just read the tweets. Few of my observations: 1. They are in the right place at the right time, when I got out of college I don’t think Twitter was there or it was so popular. 2. They are extrovert and from good college which makes really easy and natural for them to communicate their ideas. 3. They are really smart and somehow they know from beginning how it works in the tech industry. 4. They don’t waste their time on blind. Hope I can get some new perspective. PS: I regret having spent countless hours on reading clean code, code complete and pragmatic programmer.
Who promotes for sharing work on Twitter or LI ? While it might help you with new opportunities, I doubt companies promote just because you have an audience on Twitter. In sales and BD it might help, engineering not sure.
I think you don’t get my question.
Academics have their work accepted at higher rates if they tweet about it. There was a study showing the connection
Survivorship bias
Just because someone is tweeting doesn’t mean they aren’t getting things done. If you want to switch jobs or get promoted focus on yourself and what you need to do to get there.
Comparison is thief of joy.
And curiosity?
what about delusion ?
I think you’re also seeing confirmation bias LOL. Many people don’t post status updates so you’re only seeing from the select few who do, and ofc they’ll only post about successes vs failures.
Obviously I am curious about one who does.
You have to be good at soft skills way more than your actual technical skills, technical skills alone won't take you far enough. It's a sad truth, I'm not saying that it's a norm but it is very much possible to climb up the ladder by being a con artist. I have seen people becoming senior engineers straight out of college because they lied on their resume and were really good at convincing people.
Fair point. I am seeing this trend as well. Gone are the days when you had to write quality code, the current trend is MVP all the time.
The kind of person that likes to tweet is probably also good at networking, and networking is king. It's the same people that epically break something - then talk/tweet/make a big deal out of their Herculean efforts to fix it - and then are showered with praise/rewards for fixing the thing they broke in the first place.
Twitter is bs, never made an account. Never intend to.
I think what you’re REALLY asking is, is building a personal brand worth it? I don’t do it, but I think the answer is obvious...
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Snowflake, Suck it up, do what you are supposed to do at work, do it the very best, participate in group chats/ meetings and honestly stop comparing.
I am not sad but curious, there is a difference.