Quantifying Your Accomplishments as a Software Engineer
It is important that you keep a track record of the impact you make in your career (including accomplishments outside your daily job). Why? The record serves as a reference for you to measure your career growth helps you to evaluate yourself to know how much value you have contributed through the work that you have done (at work, in open source, wherever else) keeps a record of your impact for your next salary raise or promotion negotiation, or job search motivates you to do more because when you know that you keep a track record of your impact, you will want to do more to add to it Developer Efficiency All the work that we do (as software engineers) boils down to two main impact categories...