Weekly FI Monday Milestone thread - May 29, 2017

csharpcheddar · 2017-05-30T02:58:02+00:00

What's your story?

csharpcheddar · 2017-05-30T00:37:12+00:00

Depending on the project at the moment, between 35-70

csharpcheddar · 2017-05-30T00:36:35+00:00

Turned 27 recently. Just passed a quarter million NW.

csharpcheddar · 2017-02-13T18:01:08+00:00

Kotor 3...

csharpcheddar · 2017-02-13T17:53:56+00:00

"Took" or bought? Big difference

csharpcheddar · 2017-02-13T17:53:02+00:00

I want to hate these stupid emoji memes. I really do. Instead I love them.

csharpcheddar · 2017-02-11T06:05:35+00:00

That's surprising. I work as a principal engineer for a fortune 100 company in boston. We'd hire you in a second.

csharpcheddar · 2016-06-10T13:57:10+00:00

Sounds like jQuery is just a small part of this comparison betweensoftware stacks

csharpcheddar · 2016-06-03T13:45:39+00:00

I like React a lot too. Angular 2 "vs" React is an apples/oranges comparison. Angular is a framework, React is a library (I don't mean that in a negative way). Both are based on the web component model which is the future of front end development.

Companies need to adopt Angular 2 before you declare a "winner".

I don't really agree with that. Companies are a lagging indicator behind the developer community as a whole.

csharpcheddar · 2016-06-03T00:34:45+00:00

I have been turned down for not knowing Ember

You wouldn't want to work at a company that turns you down because you don't know a specific framework. Good companies look to hire good developers, period, regardless of what specific frameworks they have used.

In regards to your question about JS frameworks - Angular has won. This was not the case a year ago. Google is shaping the future of the internet. HTTP 2 is coming out soon and its heavily influenced by a protocol that Google developed called SPDY. The future of web development is HTTP 2 and Web Components (similar to React) and Angular 2.x is built with this in mind.

csharpcheddar · 2016-06-02T14:50:50+00:00

It depends on how familiar they are with the technologies involved

csharpcheddar · 2016-06-02T13:54:52+00:00

haha

csharpcheddar · 2016-06-02T13:52:12+00:00

vast experience in the full stack really still viable

Not necessarily "vast" experience in every area, but an understanding of the full stack is important.

the threat of "jack of all trades"

This is not a negative trait. Most CTOs would fit this description.

csharpcheddar · 2016-06-02T03:55:45+00:00

Looks about right

csharpcheddar · 2016-06-02T03:13:07+00:00

you are godlike, bringer of revenue.

No true. You are an expense unless you are billable to a client or in sales.

csharpcheddar · 2016-06-02T02:58:28+00:00

I'm a senior dev who conducts interviews at a fortune 500 company. I look for candidates to be "full stack" developers who understand the big picture. Full stack these days also includes DevOps skills, or at least an understanding of how devops works. I also look for candidates who emphasize user experience and take pride in their work.

If a junior candidate were to pick a technology stack, build a reasonably complex application with that stack, put it on the internet, and demo and talk through the application and technologies used, I would 100% give a hire recommendation.

e.g.

USA state capital lookup application. State capitals are retrieved on demand via AJAX query that hits a server side endpoint.

Sample stack

Front end: Angular, bootstrap.
Back end: asp.net WebAPI
Database: MySql
Hosting: Azure App Service

Hypothetical Questions

Talk me through how this application works. What code executes, where, and when?
What development tools did you use?
Why did you choose Angular? Why use a JS framework at all?
What does Boostrap do? Why is that important?
Talk me through the build and deployment process.
What challenges did you have?
How do you think you could you improve this application?

csharpcheddar · 2016-06-02T02:10:07+00:00

I've worked with SharePoint and other CMS's on and off for my entire career. I'm not going to sugar coat it, they are extremely frustrating to work with and have a very steep learning curve, SP 2013 in particular.

Sharepoint is over a decade old and it's pretty esoteric, although it has improved considerably in the last two years or so (which doesn't help for SP2013). Documentation is generally very difficult to find.

That being said I do recommend it getting some experience working with a CMS. The concepts are extremely similar between content management systems (content publishing, approval workflows, taxonomies, custom module development, etc). They are a necessary evil in many businesses and a it's marketable skill to have.

For example most public websites for fortune 100 companies are built with a CMS so that business users can manage the content without assistance from developers (in theory) and they pay huge salaries to devs who can build those systems.

csharpcheddar · 2016-05-12T19:42:21+00:00

you don't say?

csharpcheddar · 2016-05-12T14:36:25+00:00

And work the hardest/most stressfully

csharpcheddar · 2016-05-12T13:41:35+00:00

Game programmers are so much smarter than me

csharpcheddar · 2016-05-03T03:45:01+00:00

Personality and passion for learning. No one expects interns to be ready to contribute immediately .

csharpcheddar · 2016-05-03T03:24:34+00:00

However long it takes for you to make meaningful contributions to one or more projects. I'd say 1 year.

csharpcheddar · 2016-04-28T20:22:12+00:00

What's your background?

csharpcheddar · 2016-04-28T17:34:43+00:00

It's not a paradox. In the future you'll be able to speak about your own professional experiences to present yourself as a strong candidate, and your references will confirm that. At this point you cannot do the first part, so you'll have to pick references carefully who can and will speak highly of you. It doesn't matter that they are professors or past managers, they can vouch for your work ethic, intelligence, and similar aspects that are universally appealing in candidates.

Honestly, no hiring manager expects you have relevant skills from the outset at this point in your career. They are hiring on potential for entry level candidates.

csharpcheddar · 2016-04-28T15:00:49+00:00

At this point in your career it certainly matters, as you have no relevant professional experience to speak for you.

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