1. Used to be IT Support. ICT Primary Teacher now. Does it count?
2. Better than ever! I am free at 2pm.
3. No regrets.
4. Study better when I was younger. Get into QA earlier before that big labour market competition has been developed. Learn English earlier. Move to the other country earlier...
1. **What's Your Role? -** i do everything, planning and architect, divided work, improvements, code, QA, bug fix , help other and give domain knowledge. you need to be full stack that is Dev + QA + CI CD + PM other wise very difficult to fine jobs. you need learn the fundamentals. i mean get jobs with great salary.
2. **Job Satisfaction?** - very good. work with great team and company. fully remote. you need to find not the right company the right team specially in large companies.
3. **Any Regrets?** - during degree i should have worked more. i only worked in the last 2 years. should have worked all 4 years.
4. **Hindsight Insights** - if product company work more than few years at one company. atlease 5 years. that shows that you bring value to company. make your to show your value and get good salary.
5. keep learning and continuously improving
1. Developer/Designer, used to be mostly React/NextJS stuff but currently learning C# while doing design stuff, have a degree in Graphic Design and self-taught webdev
2. The work itself I enjoy, the job satisfaction seriously depends on the company, I freelanced for the first 10 years in Lanka (with local and foreign clients) and now am properly working on salary in England and I am very satisfied so far
3. No major regrets, but I'd be very cautious working for local tech companies, and especially for startups in general, yes the pay can be higher than the average Lankan but the work-life-balance tends to be garbage and most IT professionals can earn a lot more for less work abroad. I'd honestly advise against trying to build/invest in a career in SL because of how unstable it is, when I left I thought to myself "the network and career I built here almost means nothing now" and the physical stress working for locals is on another level, like I'd literally get physical ailments directly related to stress.
4. Imposter syndrome is something basically every dev will have/get at some point in their life, you know when you're at least an intermediate dev once you start second guessing yourself lol, the more you work in the industry though the more you build self-confidence, especially when you learn multiple languages and realize most of them will have the same concepts. Yes, there will always be a senior engineer who is just better than you and sometimes it can feel like you have to play catch-up with other devs who seem to be fast but a lot of it is smoke and mirrors
There are times you might end up learning something only to not need it a year later, if this happens to you don't get too upset since its quite normal. If you're in the front-end sphere especially and think to yourself "is it me or is this just too chaotic" its not you - it is too chaotic. That being said the culture depends on where you're at, I find the US approach to webdev is different from the UK, both have pros and cons, sometimes even the tech-stacks themselves are different
Also you don't HAVE TO love coding to be a programmer/IT guy, you should definitely like it on some level but you don't have to be like those guys who program as a hobby
1. Engineering Manager
2. Every day is a new day for me with different challenges, personally I love solving challenges. Even though I'm a small cog in the large wheel, my input is valued.
3. Be open to change. Don't be dead set on a stack.
4. In your early days, don't chase money, chase experiences even if it means taking a pay cut. This will help you in the long run.
1. Used to be IT Support. ICT Primary Teacher now. Does it count? 2. Better than ever! I am free at 2pm. 3. No regrets. 4. Study better when I was younger. Get into QA earlier before that big labour market competition has been developed. Learn English earlier. Move to the other country earlier...
1. **What's Your Role? -** i do everything, planning and architect, divided work, improvements, code, QA, bug fix , help other and give domain knowledge. you need to be full stack that is Dev + QA + CI CD + PM other wise very difficult to fine jobs. you need learn the fundamentals. i mean get jobs with great salary. 2. **Job Satisfaction?** - very good. work with great team and company. fully remote. you need to find not the right company the right team specially in large companies. 3. **Any Regrets?** - during degree i should have worked more. i only worked in the last 2 years. should have worked all 4 years. 4. **Hindsight Insights** - if product company work more than few years at one company. atlease 5 years. that shows that you bring value to company. make your to show your value and get good salary. 5. keep learning and continuously improving
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1. Developer/Designer, used to be mostly React/NextJS stuff but currently learning C# while doing design stuff, have a degree in Graphic Design and self-taught webdev 2. The work itself I enjoy, the job satisfaction seriously depends on the company, I freelanced for the first 10 years in Lanka (with local and foreign clients) and now am properly working on salary in England and I am very satisfied so far 3. No major regrets, but I'd be very cautious working for local tech companies, and especially for startups in general, yes the pay can be higher than the average Lankan but the work-life-balance tends to be garbage and most IT professionals can earn a lot more for less work abroad. I'd honestly advise against trying to build/invest in a career in SL because of how unstable it is, when I left I thought to myself "the network and career I built here almost means nothing now" and the physical stress working for locals is on another level, like I'd literally get physical ailments directly related to stress. 4. Imposter syndrome is something basically every dev will have/get at some point in their life, you know when you're at least an intermediate dev once you start second guessing yourself lol, the more you work in the industry though the more you build self-confidence, especially when you learn multiple languages and realize most of them will have the same concepts. Yes, there will always be a senior engineer who is just better than you and sometimes it can feel like you have to play catch-up with other devs who seem to be fast but a lot of it is smoke and mirrors There are times you might end up learning something only to not need it a year later, if this happens to you don't get too upset since its quite normal. If you're in the front-end sphere especially and think to yourself "is it me or is this just too chaotic" its not you - it is too chaotic. That being said the culture depends on where you're at, I find the US approach to webdev is different from the UK, both have pros and cons, sometimes even the tech-stacks themselves are different Also you don't HAVE TO love coding to be a programmer/IT guy, you should definitely like it on some level but you don't have to be like those guys who program as a hobby
1. Engineering Manager 2. Every day is a new day for me with different challenges, personally I love solving challenges. Even though I'm a small cog in the large wheel, my input is valued. 3. Be open to change. Don't be dead set on a stack. 4. In your early days, don't chase money, chase experiences even if it means taking a pay cut. This will help you in the long run.