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Software Developer Career Unplugged
Wojciech SeligaSpartez Co-founder & CEO
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Who is this guy
• Spartez CEO
• JIRA guy
• Seasoned developer
• Recruiting from around 2004
• Last year "processed" 500+ candidates
• Made lots of mistakes in his career and wants to share some of the lessons learnt
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Confitura 2012
1 2 3 4 5
Awful Awesome
Most Discussed Talk
*distribution guessed
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Disclaimer
Twitter: @wseliga
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Disclaimer
just kiddingTwitter: @wseliga
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Am I much smarter?
No
I am just luckier than average
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There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen,
and there are people who wonder what happened.
“”
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Jim LovellApollo 13 mission commander
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen,
and there are people who wonder what happened.
“”
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watch
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watch 75%
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watch
wonder
75%
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watch
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watch
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make
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watch
wonder
make 5%
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watch
wonder
make 5%
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I hope I am here
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Ice Floe "Strategy"
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How did you end up doing X?
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How did you end up doing X?
That was by accident!
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Steer your own career
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Sigmoid Curve
Empty Raincoat by Charles Handy
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Sigmoid Curve - Career
From http://vannevar.blogspot.com/2009/01/riding-sigmoid-curve.html
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Sigmoid Curve Chained
From http://vannevar.blogspot.com/2009/01/riding-sigmoid-curve.html
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Linchpin and Lizard Brain
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An attractive company
Culture
Products/Customers - Impact/Purpose
Opportunity for personal growth
Colleagues
Money
Location
Technology
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An attractive company
Culture
Products/Customers - Impact/Purpose
Opportunity for personal growth
Colleagues
Money
Location
Technology
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An attractive company
Culture
Products/Customers - Impact/Purpose
Opportunity for personal growth
Colleagues
Money
Location
Technology
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An attractive company
Culture
Products/Customers - Impact/Purpose
Opportunity for personal growth
Colleagues
Money
Location
Technology
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Culture
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Culture
• Beliefs
• Values ... in practice
• Practices
• Attitude (e.g. towards openness)
• Executives & Board
• Employees
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From HubSpot
“”
Culture is to recruiting as product to marketing
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From HubSpot
The way people work and live
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• Customer Orientation
• Discipline
• Quality
• Risk Taking
• Great Place to Work
• Results Orientation
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• Customer Orientation
• Discipline
• Quality
• Risk Taking
• Great Place to Work
• Results Orientation
• Open Company, No Bullshit
• Build with Heart and Balance
• Don't #@!% the Customer
• Play, as a Team
• Be the Change You Seek
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• Customer Orientation
• Discipline
• Quality
• Risk Taking
• Great Place to Work
• Results Orientation
• Open Company, No Bullshit
• Build with Heart and Balance
• Don't #@!% the Customer
• Play, as a Team
• Be the Change You Seek
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• Customer Orientation
• Discipline
• Quality
• Risk Taking
• Great Place to Work
• Results Orientation
• Open Company, No Bullshit
• Build with Heart and Balance
• Don't #@!% the Customer
• Play, as a Team
• Be the Change You Seek
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• Open Company - No Bullshit
• Don't Fuck The Customer
• Be The Change You Seek
• Great Place to Work
• Simplicity FTW
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Impact / Purpose
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Products
Passionate Customers
Open Source
Delight
Criticality
Sharing
CharityInvolvement
Revenue
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Opportunities for personal
growth
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Job Titles
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Job Titles
• Ignore titles - companies imprison you with them and trade them for increased salaries
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Job Titles
• Ignore titles - companies imprison you with them and trade them for increased salaries
• Invent your own title - summarize how you would like others to see you
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Job Titles
• Ignore titles - companies imprison you with them and trade them for increased salaries
• Invent your own title - summarize how you would like others to see you
• Pay for your title :)
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Crayons Skills
Java
Sprin
gC++
Hibern
ateSc
rum
TDDBD
D ...
Javasc
ript
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Crayons Skills
Java
Sprin
gC++
Hibern
ateSc
rum
TDDBD
D ...
Generalist
Javasc
ript
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Generalist
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Specialist
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Generalists vs. Specialists
• Generalists → startup
• Specialists → medium size and bigger companies
• Generalists → higher level managers
• Specialists → subject matter experts
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People usually will remember you only from the longest crayon
(the pole of your career tent)
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Developer Career
Credits: ptmoney.com
Managerial Careervs
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Dev or Manager - Vision
When your vision of what you want to do is what you can do single-handedly, then you should pursue it. The day your vision, what you think needs to be done, is bigger than what you can do single-handedly, then you have to move toward management.And the bigger the vision is, the farther in management you have to go.
From: http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
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The choice should not be driven by money, but:
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The choice should not be driven by money, but:
vision
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The choice should not be driven by money, but:
passionvision
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The choice should not be driven by money, but:
passionpersonal abilities
vision
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The company should offer devs and managers similar
growth opportunities
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Colleagues
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Nerds vs Geeks
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Nerds vs Geeks
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Colleagues
“”
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Jim Rohn
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Senior developers
• what does it tell about a company when a graduate becomes a team architect in a year?
• and gets the most senior position in engineering year later?
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Senior Developer
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Senior Developer• super-smart (of course :))
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Senior Developer• super-smart (of course :))
• productive - delivers!
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Senior Developer• super-smart (of course :))
• productive - delivers!
• analyses potential solutions from various perspectives, identifies the pros/cons and is not afraid of making recommendation
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Senior Developer• super-smart (of course :))
• productive - delivers!
• analyses potential solutions from various perspectives, identifies the pros/cons and is not afraid of making recommendation
• can break down a mammoth task/project into smaller tasks
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Senior Developer• super-smart (of course :))
• productive - delivers!
• analyses potential solutions from various perspectives, identifies the pros/cons and is not afraid of making recommendation
• can break down a mammoth task/project into smaller tasks
• can make accurate estimates for bigger endeavors*
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Senior Developer• super-smart (of course :))
• productive - delivers!
• analyses potential solutions from various perspectives, identifies the pros/cons and is not afraid of making recommendation
• can break down a mammoth task/project into smaller tasks
• can make accurate estimates for bigger endeavors*
• can mentor other developers, e.g. via code reviews and pairing
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Senior Developer• super-smart (of course :))
• productive - delivers!
• analyses potential solutions from various perspectives, identifies the pros/cons and is not afraid of making recommendation
• can break down a mammoth task/project into smaller tasks
• can make accurate estimates for bigger endeavors*
• can mentor other developers, e.g. via code reviews and pairing
• can make justified recommendations on new technology - frameworks, libraries, languages, etc.
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Senior Developer• super-smart (of course :))
• productive - delivers!
• analyses potential solutions from various perspectives, identifies the pros/cons and is not afraid of making recommendation
• can break down a mammoth task/project into smaller tasks
• can make accurate estimates for bigger endeavors*
• can mentor other developers, e.g. via code reviews and pairing
• can make justified recommendations on new technology - frameworks, libraries, languages, etc.
• an architect who actually produces code
http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engineer/http://katemats.com/paradox-autonomy-recognition/
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Senior Developer
• Creates trust by being hyper-visible
• Be the engineer that everyone wants to work with
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Senior developersdo make mistakes
• Nobody is perfect
• Senior developers acknowledge this fact and are prepared and willing to solve various problems then cannot foresee
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10000hours
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8 hours a day
5.5 years
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14.7 years3 hours a day
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14.7 years3 hours a day
Meetings
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14.7 years3 hours a day
Meetings
Processes
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14.7 years3 hours a day
Meetings
Processes Methodologies
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14.7 years3 hours a day
Meetings
Processes Methodologies
Mails
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14.7 years3 hours a day
Meetings Procrastination
Processes Methodologies
Mails
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Kids vs. Santas
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Kids vs. Santas
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Kids vs. Santas
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Kids vs. Santas
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Kids vs. Santas
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Kids vs. Santas
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Kids vs. Santas
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Kids vs. Santas
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Kids vs. Santas
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Money
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Pay ranges - job ads
• Sets clear upfront expectations inside and outside
• Avoids dork applicants: I passed in my life many tests and exams. I don't have to be punished in this way to be motivated and work effectively. How much you pay 1500 PLN gross, or less?
• Unfortunately publishing exact salaries (even internally) of employees is in Poland forbidden by law.
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Pay Ranges
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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You can always earn more ... elsewhere
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You can always earn more ... elsewhere
... one day
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Salary - PrisonHatred
Sadness
Apathy
Passiveness
Aggression
Doubts
Fear
Mortgage Loan
Family
Luxuries
School
Friends
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We pay you to quit ... unless you prefer us to money
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Changing you job?
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When to change your job
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When to change your job
• You no longer learn/grow or your growth decelerates
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When to change your job
• You no longer learn/grow or your growth decelerates
• You don't have fun
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When to change your job
• You no longer learn/grow or your growth decelerates
• You don't have fun
• One of it should be enough
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When to change your job
• You no longer learn/grow or your growth decelerates
• You don't have fun
• One of it should be enough
• Use Career Mirror: a spouse, a partner, best friend, a parent, a sibling ...
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When to change your job
• You no longer learn/grow or your growth decelerates
• You don't have fun
• One of it should be enough
• Use Career Mirror: a spouse, a partner, best friend, a parent, a sibling ...
• and follow their advice
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Job Interviews
• Your opportunity to see what kind of people work in the company, what is important to them and if you can learn from them
• The best candidates are those from whom interviewers can learn something
• Both sides play this game - it's not a solitaire
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0%
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people regret changing their job*
0%
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people regret changing their job*
0%majority regret it was too late
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Ex-employees or Alumni
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Take-aways
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Take-aways• Take control of your career - don't jump just to the
closest bigger floe
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Take-aways• Take control of your career - don't jump just to the
closest bigger floe
• Don't be complacent. Be hungry!
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Take-aways• Take control of your career - don't jump just to the
closest bigger floe
• Don't be complacent. Be hungry!
• There are more pay grades above you that you think
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Take-aways• Take control of your career - don't jump just to the
closest bigger floe
• Don't be complacent. Be hungry!
• There are more pay grades above you that you think
• Bet on good colleagues, products/services and culture
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Take-aways• Take control of your career - don't jump just to the
closest bigger floe
• Don't be complacent. Be hungry!
• There are more pay grades above you that you think
• Bet on good colleagues, products/services and culture
• Don't let imprison yourself with the salary
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Take-aways• Take control of your career - don't jump just to the
closest bigger floe
• Don't be complacent. Be hungry!
• There are more pay grades above you that you think
• Bet on good colleagues, products/services and culture
• Don't let imprison yourself with the salary
• Change your job if you grow too slowly or the mirror test says so
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Take-aways• Take control of your career - don't jump just to the
closest bigger floe
• Don't be complacent. Be hungry!
• There are more pay grades above you that you think
• Bet on good colleagues, products/services and culture
• Don't let imprison yourself with the salary
• Change your job if you grow too slowly or the mirror test says so
• Technologies come and go - they are tools not the purpose
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Take control of your own career
Don't let accidents drive your life
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Highest Point of Contribution
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Credits• Certified 100% - by Arianne - http://www.flickr.com/photos/whatnot/6853556/ - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
• Ampersand - by Chris - http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisinplymouth/3684495317/ - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
• Ice Floes - By Jason Auch - CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Seal on Ice Floe - by Tolka Rover - http://www.flickr.com/photos/eob/3146276478/ - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
• Ice Raft - by Tim Ellis - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_ellis/26360944/a - CC BY-NC 2.0
• Steering by keepingtime_ca - http://www.flickr.com/photos/keepingtime_ca/4851722309/ - CC SA 2.0
• Suit 1 - by Nelson Pavlosky - http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyfaller/303724468/ - CC SA 2.0
• Hippie Cats - by Jessica Langlois - http://www.flickr.com/photos/coollibrarian/3148395959/ - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
• Greek Parthenon - by Nathan Jones - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pwinker/2764031408/ - CC BY-NC 2.0
• Roman Column - by Diane Lee - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dileeshus/8293023363/ - CC BY 2.0
• Alumni - By Meghdad thrust - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASome_alumnus_of_IUT_2.jpg - CC BY-SA 3.0
• Mirrors - by Dean Shareski - http://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/3786803863/ - CC BY-NC 2.0
• Money! - by Trace O - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracy_olson/61056391/ - CC BY-SA 2.0
• Prison Bars - by Fernando Silveira - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernandosilveira/421888962/ - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
• Questions - by Mykl Roventine - http://www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/2372327933/ - CC BY 2.0
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Questions?
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Thank you