The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide | John Sonmez | Before the Bestseller 23


John Sonmez is most well known for The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide which has over 800 reviews on Amazon. He’s also the founder of the Simple Programmer blog and YouTube channel, where he reaches 1.4 million software developers yearly with a central message: Technical skills alone aren’t enough for a successful career—or life.

He transitioned from writing about programming soft skills to writing about building something, he calls, The Bulldog Mindset.

In this episode we talk about what he was doing leading up to the book, and how each book he’s launched has had a distinct purpose along his author journey.

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The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide
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