Ask HN: Elevator Pitch for a Polymath?
Dear HN, So far in my (admittedly fairly short, at 7--8 years experience) professional life, I've always entered employment as a software engineer. However, I study a lot of things outside of this: leadership, economics, site reliability engineering, writing, queuing theory, product development, extreme value theory, lean, survival analysis, etc. This means when I find the right employer, my job often extends well beyond the programming I was hired to do, into things like: - statistical analysis of customer health, - cross-functional KPIs for alignment on current priorities over a diverse set of departments, - improving development methodologies and workflows, - adjusting on-call compensation to improve join rates and employee satisfaction, and more. Over and over I encounter the advice to "come up with and practise the elevator pitch of what you do". I struggle with this.
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Dear HN, So far in my (admittedly fairly short, at 7--8 years experience) professional life, I've always entered employment as a software engineer. However, I study a lot of things outside of this: leadership, economics, site reliability engineering, writing, queuing theory,
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- kqr
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews