Best engineers are focusing on helping others
My top insights on how best engineers are helping others + 🎁 additional tips from the LinkedIn and Substack community!
Intro
Many different things make an engineer a great one. One thing that truly stands out is the ability to help others. Best engineers know that by helping others you contribute so much more value than just with your own contribution.
It took me a while in order to understand that. Let’s get into that next.
It took 5+ years for me to understand the importance of helping others
As an engineer, growing and progressing in my career, I was focusing a LOT on getting better every day and learning as much as possible. I was learning through tutorials, building side projects or doing freelance work.
You can read more about how freelance work has helped me to grow from engineer all the way to CTO here: My secret for growing from engineer to CTO (paid article).
But what I didn’t do is to also share what I have learned with others. I remember being the only person on the team who had a good understanding of Angular and also the whole frontend part of a certain app.
That wasn’t so great, because witho…