Culture Why I Stay at Atomic – It’s Not Just About the Code The real, non-sugar-coated reasons I choose to stay at Atomic? It's about stability, reliable friendships, flexibility, and fairness.
The Software Life Use an External Brain for Perfect Recall at Career Fairs Career fairs used to wreak havoc on my long-term memory formation process and leave me staring blankly at a pile of resumes after the event.
Growing as Makers The Deep End: Pursuing a Computer Science Degree vs. Pursuing a Career Completing a computer science degree is not easy. But now, there is what seems to be a new monumental task to conquer — pursuing a career.
Personal Optimization The Big Stay: Job-Hopping May Be Lucrative, but Tenure Pays, Too Here are a few counterpoints to reasons people advocate for job-hopping. That trend is slowing down in favor of one called The Big Stay.
Growing as Makers What Does Being a Good Leader Mean? Making Life Easier for Your Team In the end, if you ensured that the problem was addressed, you were a good leader, no matter how you did it.
Growing as Makers If Life Were a Video Game – Part 2: An Open World Congrats on finishing the tutorial! In part two, we talk about how post-grad life is similar to an open-world game and offer some tips.
Growing as Makers Keep an Emergency Supply of Warm Fuzzy Feelings in a Nice Words Document My Nice Words file is where I put every kind remark my colleagues and clients have made about me or my work.
Growing as Makers Get More Out of Your Mentor-Mentee Relationship I've been working with a Career Development Manager for several months. These six things have improved our mentor-mentee relationship.
Personal Optimization Mature as a Junior Developer: Habit Building Forming habits around the type of professional you want to become can be a game changer for building confidence in any career.
Personal Optimization 3 Tips for Getting the Most Out of a Coaching Experience Given the opportunity to receive coaching to achieve your career goals? Here are my top tips for having productive coaching sessions.
Project & Team Management 3 Practices I Use to Create a Comfortable Environment for Junior Developers I've found that when I can make junior developers feel comfortable, they're more likley to ask questions, speak up, and point out mistakes.
Growing as Makers 6 Developer Archetypes: Leverage Your Differences We've recently begun to introduce "Developer Archetypes," a set of self-identified labels Atoms can use to radiate their strengths and interests.
