This career guideline document provides advice for programmers at different stages of their career. For students, it recommends dreaming ambitiously but having fallback options, participating in programming contests, solving online problems, and gaining a broad technical foundation. It also suggests engaging in extracurricular activities and open sourcing projects on GitHub. For junior developers, the document emphasizes focusing on knowledge and attitude over money, completing tasks independently, avoiding complaining, being a team player, and practicing data structures and algorithms. It also recommends participating in hackathons and contributing to open source. For senior developers, it advises doing everything suggested for junior developers more extensively, deciding whether to stay in Bangladesh or relocate, and having the maturity

1. Career Guideline
(for programmers
only)
Shafiul Hasan

2. I am not a professional
career guideline
speaker.
I am from Noakhali so
pardon my language :).

3. Why i am here ?

4. Who i am ?
I am just a hard working developer who has 11
years of industry experience.
I had the chance to work with some brightest
developers of Bangladesh.
I recruited over than 75 developers in several
companies.
I was involved with establishing Widespace in
Bangladesh and i have established 5 more
companies in Bangladesh.
I have some idea about the Bangladesh IT industry.

5. Students
Junior developers
Senior developers

6. Students

7. Dream big. Be prepare for Google,
Facebook and Amazon. If you failed
then you will land at
Booking.com/Grab.com/…
Try to attend programming contests
as much as possible.
Try to solve online problem sets
form different web sites.
Try to be green-> blue -> yellow ->
red, Please do not be rainbow :P.

8. Do all the assignments by yourself.
Get some good idea on Database, Operating
system, networking.
Do not focus on single languages or framework,
learn how to solve a problem.
Have some idea on OOP and design patterns.
Be engaged with some co-curricular activities , try to
organise some events in your university.
Try to upload all your projects in Github/Gitlab.
Explore some open source projects and try to
contribute to some projects too. Make your git
profile your cv.

9. Junior Developers

10. Focus on your knowledge
and attitude, money will
follow you.

11. Try to complete your tasks by
yourselves. Do not seek help
from seniors unless it is a
blocking issue.

12. Avoid I/Me, Without team -
work you cannot achieve
anything.

13. Be like Macgyver, solve the
problem with the available tools
and technologies. Do not
complain.

14. We do not need Ferrari always,
sometimes a sedan will serve
the purpose :)

15. Clean your shoulders
regularly and Take
responsibilities.

16. Be an Umbrella for the
juniors.

17. Be social and keep an
eye to the rest of the
world.

18. Keep practicing Data structures and
Algorithms
Participate national and international
Hackathons.
Write a blog / gain stack overflow
reputations.
Focus on design patterns.
Explore some open source projects and try
to contribute to some projects too.
Travel regularly and do physical exercise
every now and then

19. Do whatever is prescribed for junior
developers but more extensively.
Decide whether you want to stay in
Bangladesh or want to relocate.
You are mature enough to make your
own path.
Senior Developers