Almost nobody asks for feedback once the decision is made. That’s exactly when it matters most Three people came to find me after the results were announced. I’d spent the day at Google’s London HQ as a judge for the first UK edition of Capgemini’s Tech4Positive Futures competition — 24 participants across six teams, backed by Barclays, HSBC,…
There is a piece of advice that circulates endlessly through mentoring conversations, coding bootcamps, and LinkedIn posts aimed at people trying to break into the tech industry. Get certified. Build something for your GitHub. Put together a portfolio. Contribute to open source. Let’s call this “the checklist”. It’s not bad advice, and it wasn’t bad…
The ratio between technical depth and broader adaptability is shifting… but the shift isn’t simply a matter of engineers needing to broaden their horizons. It depends on whether the organisations employing them create the conditions for that broadening to happen at all.
I want to explore the tension between technical depth and soft skills, how this ratio shifts as our careers evolve, and how to recognise when it’s time to rebalance. I’ll also keep an eye on how AI is reshaping our industry, and how this figures into the ratio.
