Most juniors are worried about their technical competence and believe that this is the major reason why they didn't get hired. In my experience, technical competence, although a clear requirement, is not the most common reason why many juniors get a rejection email. In fact, it's only one of five pillars that are important for a developer to be great. Most of the times, it's the lack of the other four pillars that makes it hard for developers to learn more, to grow, and to progress as an...

How does curiosity/fear affect your learning? What is a Fixed Mindset and what is a Growth Mindset? Mike Kang, CEO @ Launch Up, looks into Dr. Carol Dweck's concepts and explores how we should think about the learning process. We go through some examples to think about what a different mindset might look like!

Episode 2 is all about the 10,000 hour rule (popularized by Malcolm Gladwell). Mike Kang, CEO & Co-Founder of Launch Up, goes in depth into how in the entry level software engineering world, this idea has probably done more harm than good. Let's get more focused. Let's get exact. Here are some of the points that we cover! Fact or off-base? What is the 10,000 hour rule and has Gladwell missed the point on this one?The complexity of the task determines how long it takes to be an...

Mike Kang, CEO & Co-founder of Launch Up and previous EM @ Clearco (a fintech unicorn in Toronto), talks about the process of breaking into the tech industry as a Junior Software Engineer. Here we talk about three broad pieces of advice that are given to aspiring juniors, and why we should rethink the advice that is given! 1.  Apply to tons of companies! 2.  Just do some Leetcode questions! 3.  Make more personal projects!  After interviewing hundreds of bootcamp graduates, and...