Thom Meredith - Partner, Director of Technology at Kley

Junior to Senior with David Guttman

Talking Points:

• Pushing beyond your limits
• Abstraction of Professions
• Junior Dev Traits
• Forest vs Trees
• Looking Under the hood
• Working with non-technical people
• Communication

Quotable Quotes:

• “How do we make this possible? How do we achieve this?” - TM
• “There’s an aspect to be sure that you have the right person for the job.” - TM
• “You don’t need to be a full-stack jack of all trades master of none.” TM
• “The FE bar just keeps getting raised.” TM
• “You need to have people that can solve the problems that are not in the box.” - TM
• “Squarespace, Wix, other online editors are a fix for simple problems.” DG
• “I look for someone who is humble and hungry.” TM
• “[Junior Devs] may not know that you could just look under the hood.” - TM
• “Communication and knowing your audience is so important for a junior engineer.” - TM

Notes:

Kley
kley.co

Junior to Senior Community
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