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#004 - PHD turned Backend Developer with Simon B

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How to Be a Successful Software Developer

In a CS degree, you're heavy loaded on the theory side. You learn some of the practical stuff in a bootcamp or an online platform. But then there's this third thing that we always forget and I love it, which is what problems are you trying to solve? Every time I hired a new backend developer at one of my last companies, we were a software company that built marketing software for marketers. If I hired a developer who knew nothing about internet marketing, digital marketing, they're constantly asking questions about that space. So definitely that is the career switches route is yes, which career, but really changed apartment like that.

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