Mid-Level Software Engineer [Senior Associate] at Capital One

Given this industry, switching is always somewhere in my mind. How can I figure out if it makes sense to pursue that or stay? When it comes to staying, how do I know if my current team is conducive to my overall growth and goals going forward?

How do I know when it's time to leave a team/company?

I think I'm a good generalist with technical breadth and got I ask appropriate questions to learn a new stack. I think I lack in technical depth. Either I haven't had opportunities to develop meaningful technical depth or I haven't known how to leverage those opportunities. 

A perceived limitation is I tend to associate these opportunities only with refactoring, which needs buy-in from business, but maybe there's more I don't see. My experience has been business only wants to spend the type of work that applies to covering 80% of the needs and the rest tend to be edge cases that don't get much review during initial design & implementation. 

An idea I've considered is deliberately practicing DSA interview questions with the intent to identify concepts that may carry over to other implementations. How feasible does this seem?

How do you choose an opportunity for technical depth?

I get a lot of JIRA tickets for bugs where it's not clear what the fix should be. How can I find the problem area and relevant code faster with these issues?

Entry-Level Software Engineer [Associate] at Capital One

I tend to give everything my all, which is what I did back in school. I overdid it back then, so I needed a long break afterwards. I want to make sure I don't make the same mistake with my career - What can I do to prevent burnout while still achieving lots of impact and growth?

I've heard this advice a lot, and I would like to get more clarity on what that concretely means. In particular, what does a junior engineer being proactive look like? Can someone provide examples?

What does being proactive look like in practice?

Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts, headquartered in McLean, Virginia with operations primarily in the United States.

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Entry-Level Software Engineer [Associate]

- Notice a pattern and make the change throughout the team's code rather than just the specific example you were expected to fix.
- Learn something interesting/detect a common failure mode, then document so other people can benefit, or leave that feedback on code reviews.

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What does being proactive look like in practice?

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