In this episode of the New Dev Series hosts Bailey, Jesse, and Jeannie discuss the life in the day of a new software developer. They discuss the challenges of a dev's first 6 months - 1 year on the job and advise on how to contribute during that time, all while taking in a ton of new information.
Bailey and Jesse are joined by Peloton Engineer and former Turing Instructor and 1602/03 Alum Ilana Corson. They discuss Ilana’s Turing story, how she became an instructor at Turing, her work as a TestDouble consultant, consultancy vs product work, being female in tech, and how all Turing community members can move the needle on justice and equality.
Jeannie and Jesse hold down the conversation this week as they discuss mentorship in all its forms.
Bailey and Jesse chat with Turing co founder and Revelo Chief Community Officer Jorge Téllez about the early days of Turing, Turing’s mission, the origins of the Turing admissions process, making the tech world more inclusive, Revelo, doing good and other topics.
This week on the New Dev Series, Bailey, Jeannie, and Jesse discuss their experiences with onboarding and what that can look like at different companies.
Bailey and Jesse are joined by the Head of Engineering of Temporal and founder of the Turing Front End Program Steve Kinney. They discuss how Steve joined Turing during the early days, the advent of the Front End Program, his work at Sendgrid, Twilio, Temporal as well as the courses he teaches at Frontend Masters.
LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevekinney/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevekinney/)
Website: [https://www.stevekinney.net/](https://www.stevekinney.net/)
Frontend Masters: [https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/steve-kinney/](https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/steve-kinney/)
Temporal: [https://temporal.io](https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/steve-kinney/)
Don’t forget to check out https://www.milehighhack.org/ a Denver non profit and civic hackathon.
And apologies for the sound quality of this episode. It’s not the best and we’re working to improve.
In this episode Bailey, Jeannie and Jesse unpack what interviews commonly look like for Software Developers. They give high level overviews on what to expect, share their personal experiences, and get into the weeds about what makes interviewing for your first role unique.
Jesse and Jeannie chat with Turing’s Sr. Growth Marketing Manager Nikki Diminich about her Turing Story, marketing Turing’s mission, finding potential Turing students, design, and the bigLOVISA scholarship fund.
Connect with Nikki
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-diminich-1a5940a/ Instagram: nikkidims11
Join Bailey, Mark, and Jeannie as they discuss their strategies for finding their first roles as Software Developers. They will share their own experiences as well as provide advice to those looking for that first dev job.
Jeannie & Jesse chat with Bailey Diveley, Senior Engineer at Ibotta and 1808 BE Alum, about her past life in the nonprofit world, her future career pivots, learning, metacognition, and a special surprise for long time listeners at the end. Bailey recommended the book Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley and Maybe you Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb.
You can connect with Bailey in the #turing-jcs slack channel or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/baileydiveley/.
Jesse chats with Senior Engineer and 1412 Turing Alum, DJ Greenfield about the early days of Turing, mentorship, job hunting, Turing super powers, privilege, capitalism, AI, and other topics.
Jeannie & Jesse discuss partnership work at Turing with Partnership Manager Robyn Purvin. The conversation covers how Robyn joined the Turing team, how she advocates on behalf of Turing students and alumni, software salaries, tech conferences and other topics.
Host Jesse Spevack speaks with 1708 FE alum and current Googler Katie Scruggs about her Turing story, career, and work with the Joan Clarke Society.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiescruggs
Host Jesse Spevack chats with 1608 BE Alum, former Turing instructor, and current Stripe engineer Ali Schlereth about her Turing story, teaching, parenthood, and making careers in software.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alischlereth
Host Jesse Spevack talks with Corey Carter, 2006 BE Alum, former assistant principal and software engineer at Handshake. They commiserate about the challenges of the world of education, Corey’s Turing story, his work at Handshake, his career aspirations, and rugby. They did not mention that Corey’s partner, Anhnhi Tran is a current student!
You can connect with Corey at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carter-codes/
Host Jesse chats with Tan Doan about his Turing story, his experience as a student during the early days of Turing, his career, his move to big tech, and the TAPIDA community.
Show Notes:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/turingjobshadow - sign up to lead a job shadow
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/turingwhatsadev - sign up to lead what’s a dev
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/turingmockinterviews - sign up to lead mock interviews
Cohosts Jeannie and Jesse chat with Maia Stone, 1608 FE Alum and Director of Engineering at Uplight. Maia shares her Turing story and high velocity career trajectory and then turns to coaching the co hosts on their own careers.
Show Notes:
https://conscious.is/ - Conscious Leadership
The Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson
Cohosts Jeannie, Jesse, Mark and Marshall explore some of the themes that have spanned multiple episodes including changing our lives, the future of software development, taking risks, authenticity, and slack bugs.
This will be the last episode of the year, happy holidays!
Book mention: Average is Over by Tyler Cowen.
Jeannie and Jesse chat with Jhun De Andres about his Turing story, family, parenting, therapy, teaching, bookmarks, tech interviews and other topics.
Jesse and Marshall chat with Leah Riffell, engineer at Shopify and 2006 BE Alum about her Turing story, Shopify, nomadic living, continuous learning, social justice, community, all the ways we are not yet there and other topics.
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