The best engineers know when to go deep on one particular topic and when to study a broad swath of new topics. Learn how to plan out these transitions in your career and how to get the most out of each pivot in focus.

Giving and receiving feedback effectively is a critical component of growing as a software engineer. In this course we talk about how to prepare for code review, but as a person being reviewed and as a reviewer. What makes an effective code review? Why is it a good idea for juniors to review the work of seniors? How do you avoid being "that guy" during reviews?

Most CS and programming courses don't teach the fundamentals about code and the machines that run our programs. Which fundamentals should you invest time in learning and how to do that most effectively?

Ignorance of databases, how they work, and confusion around SQL vs NoSQL are common problems that hold engineers back. Stop looking stupid in meetings by learning some SQL!

Impostor syndrome never goes away. No matter how many years of experience you have or how many achievements you rack up. Even the best engineers struggle with impostor syndrome. But you can manage impostor syndrome so that is doesn't hold you back.

When is it appropriate to devote time and energy to building tooling, automation and other forms of metawork? Software engineers love automating things, but a lot of metawork is just a form of procrastination. Learn how to make sure you're always devoting your time and effort to the most important work.

You will spend more time reading code than writing it. Learn how to navigate a foreign code base and figure out both how to use it and how to contribute to it yourself.

The messiest bugs in software almost always come from edge cases. The engineers that learn how to think in edge cases make the biggest impact on their teams. Learn how to find example edge cases, how to break them down to technical components and train your mind to think in edge cases.