Metadata
- Author: Simon Nadav Cohen
- Full Title:: A 101 on 1:1s
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2015/12/a-101-on-11s/
- Finished date:: 2023-03-31
Highlights
“Use it to do career development with your team members,” some people advised. That sounded like a good idea. But, how? Everyone in my team was pretty senior, some more senior than me as engineers. Everyone had a lot more context about our technology stack than I did, because I spent the last decade in a cave tweaking bits and knobs to shave off nanoseconds from electronic trades. And, although some of what I’ve learned about engineering was novel and useful for folks here, overall, there just wasn’t much I could offer in terms of mentoring or teaching about the mastery or craft of backend software engineering that my team members didn’t already know or knew better than I did. (View Highlight)