Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast 243: Mastering the Art of Switching Careers in Tech with Dan Lew
Apr 10, 2023
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Personal Motivation For Career Pivot
- Dan left Trello Android, took months off, and then rejoined tech outside Android to focus on climate work.
- His son's birth made climate impacts feel personal and motivated the career pivot.
Transferable Senior Skills Beat Syntax
- Core senior engineering skills (architecture, communication, debugging) transfer across languages and stacks.
- The specific syntax is the easy part; deciding what to build and how is the hard part.
AI Solves Syntax, Not Design
- Tools like GitHub Copilot solve syntax but not the higher-level design or product questions.
- The hard part is deciding what to build and designing APIs and architectures, not typing code.