Hiring and nurturing junior developers
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English - September 20, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 103 MB - ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsTechnology Education How To golang open source software development devops architecture docker kubernetes Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Johnny, Carmen, Jon, and returning guest Stevenson Jean-Pierre talk about hiring engineers with a focus on junior roles. Why do we keep running into these ridiculous job listings that nobody could ever live up to? What benefits do junior developers bring to the team? Why don’t teams put more focus on developing junior engineers? What can we do better?
Johnny, Carmen, Jon, and returning guest Stevenson Jean-Pierre talk about hiring engineers with a focus on junior roles. Why do we keep running into these ridiculous job listings that nobody could ever live up to? What benefits do junior developers bring to the team? Why don’t teams put more focus on developing junior engineers? What can we do better?
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Featuring:
Stevenson Jean-Pierre – Twitter, GitHubJohnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteCarmen Andoh – Twitter, GitHubJon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Show Notes:
Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified - a look into why women and POC will apply to fewer job listings.
Career Development at Gitlab - an example of a company doing a better job with their career dev framework.
100 Days of Code - a way to help make yourself more accountable while improving as a junior developer
Engineer vs Programmer - a talk about the differences between an engineer and a programmer
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