What are the career development directions of programmers?
Career planning is a vital link for personal career development. It can guide you and make you develop more purposefully. I believe that the goal of every programmer is not just to be a code farmer, so do you know the career development direction of programmers?
In fact, the career development direction of programmers can be roughly divided into two types: technical and management.
1. Technical
Rough route: junior programmer>>intermediate programmer>>senior programmer>>technical expert/system architect
Junior programmers generally refer to novices who have just started and have about 1 year of work experience.
Intermediate programmers
have about 3 years of work experience. At this stage, they have accumulated a few years, and their skills and salary have also improved a lot. This stage is a critical period for a solid technical foundation. If you can continuously improve your technical capabilities through project practice and can play a more important role in the team, then the next promotion will not be far away.
Senior programmers have about 5 years of work experience, and they can completely stand alone technically. They can try to "transform" and focus on their comprehensive training and development.
The main difference between the two positions of technical expert/system architect is that one is the in-depth study of technology and the other is the breadth of technology. If you are still working in a technical field after becoming a senior engineer, continue to research and dig deeper content of the technology, you can consider the direction of technical experts at this time; and the responsibility of the system architect is to control the overall design of the project at the beginning of the project And the formulation of solutions.
2. Management
To reach the level of management, it must first be established on the basis of technology, and the development route of management based on different branches of the technology line. There are generally two career paths in this part:
1) Programmer>>System Architect>>Project Manager
2) Programmer>>Technical Director>>CTO
Three, other
Of course, programmers are definitely not limited to the two career development directions introduced above. You can also try to switch to product managers, technical support, technical consultants, etc., all of which are possible.