How to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering team
Building good relationships with your colleagues will make your work experience SO much better!
Intro
Being able to build good relationships with your team and the people that you are working with, makes it SO much easier to collaborate and work together.
On the other hand, if you don’t do this, it can cause a lot of uncertainties and issues.
Let’s get more into the WHY next.
Why should you focus on building good relationships?
One of the common things I see from low-performer engineers is that they are building things in isolation.
They don’t ask for help or they don’t want to clarify their plan of tackling a certain project with their colleagues. The side-effect of this is that they are not building the RIGHT things, therefore their impact is much lower.
They haven’t been able to build good enough relationships with their colleagues to feel comfortable doing that or their ego gets in their way.
On the contrary, engineers who are considered high performers often have two things:
Their overall skillset is at a high level.
They have good communication & collaboration abilities which helps …