In this industry we use "developer" and "engineer" interchangeably, but one is not like the other. They don’t hand out brass rats at the end of a bootcamp…
> For early career engineers, it often happens because they lack practice working on teams. They train in school environments where they do classroom projects on their own, or work on long-term intern projects in a silo.
Serious engineering school would have student work together to ship projects.
Yes, MIT’s university culture does genuinely encourage a collaborative project-based approach. However, some grads will believe that the business world expects them to be as brilliant as Tony Stark and able to “carry a message to garcia”[1]. If a course-VI grad wearing brass rat thinks a request for help/feedback will be rebuffed as impostor syndrome (it happens), they can make the same mistake. Ego is the enemy. The blog post’s advice still applies.
> For early career engineers, it often happens because they lack practice working on teams. They train in school environments where they do classroom projects on their own, or work on long-term intern projects in a silo.
Serious engineering school would have student work together to ship projects.