Few days ago, Jacky asked me two questions, one of them was how to earn reputation?

How do you earn reputation? and that can be a fundamental question, whether it’s an org or team or company? What someone needs to do to earn reputation?

Read on…

Reputation is about what you do - do it well, or do it badly, you earn reputation around that.

In my view, there are few obvious things you can do about earning good reputation in tech field.

• Figure out what are you good at? or want to be good at. Tech is such a vast field that you can’t talk about everything here. And really do not talk about it.
• What ever you are good at or passionate about, start talking about it to people.
• Help unconditionally - within your team and most importantly at community level.
• Start contributing to community in the ways like opensource, arranging for meetups, blogs etc. ie, I care about software engineering and I constantly not only talk about it, but laos I am willing to help others.
• Go learn - from people, network with people within your company.
• Actively volunteer to solve problems around your domain.

And lastly, reflect and adjust as you go, no one is perfect and tech field is always about learning something everyday.