Work In Programming

Matthew Weeks
Work In Programming

What's it actually like working on a product team in tech? Each episode, Matthew interviews folks from all facets of the tech industry. We'll be interviewing developers, product managers, scrum masters, and managers what their day to day is like, what practices keep their team running smoothly, and what they look for in new team members.

  1. 05/13/2021

    Brian - Breaking Down the Steps to Becoming a Technical Founder

    This week Matt sits down with Brian Faber. Brian is the CTO & Co-Founder of Mayday. In this episode, we discuss how Brian went from getting his first computer at the age of seven and teaching himself to program, to skipping university and getting his first development contract building Game Boy Advanced. We discussed the process of building a start-up & managing time. Other things discussed in this episode include: - Hiring Practices - Working for Ubisoft - Does it make sense to go to school for gaming? and so much more. If you liked this episode, check out Mayday or connect with Brian directly (Of course, Mayday *is* hiring!)    - Brian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-faber-4117203/   - Mayday website: https://mayday.am

    55 min

  2. 04/28/2021

    Mark Prince–Dive In & Be Obsessed

    This week Matt sits down with Mark Prince. Mark is a software engineer at Quantum Mob, where he works with big name clients building web sites. When Mark turned 30, he made the decision to make a career change, and reignite his childhood love of coding. Mark explains how he would “pre-work” in order to learn quickly on the job & why he credits his history of service jobs for his success as a software engineer. Other things discussed in this episode include: - Managing your time - Make sure you love code before you enter a boot-camp - More Code Fewer Chips and so much more.

    41 min

  3. 03/18/2021

    Josh Cunningham - Digging deeper into a product to understand the entire software development lifecycle

    This week Matt sits down with Josh Cunningham, technical lead at Auth0. Josh started his 15-year programming career while studying chemistry and quickly moved into freelancing and agency work before joining Auth0. We discuss the learning curve of joining a fast-growing product company, and how quickly. In this episode, we discuss why and how testing is critical and how to navigate the real human issue of remote communication. Josh also explains why he finds journaling so important both on a professional and personal basis. Other things discussed in this episode include: Writing code that's testable means writing better code. How to give useful code reviews. Tests are documentation, and other lessons from Lucho.

    54 min

  4. 03/11/2021

    Andy Knight - Automation Panda origin story, BDD, test automation before it was cool

    This week Matt sits down with Andrew Knight. You likely know Andy from his blog AutomationPanda.com or from one of his many talks at Tech Conferences spanning across the globe. In this episode Andy discusses how the TI-83 got him hooked on programming, how Automation Panda started as a place for him to save his notes between jobs, and how blogging led to speaking at conferences, consulting, and many more opportunites. Other things discussed in this episode include: Writing Cucumber before it was Cucumber Never planning on being a Developer LexisNexis being the greatest opportunity of his career and so much more You can follow Andy on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/AutomationPanda His Blog: https://automationpanda.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwkshD85UGzUH651KyVK4zQ

    1h 24m

  5. 02/25/2021

    Landy Simpson – Growth Happens in Uncomfortable Situations

    This week Matt sits down with Landy Simpson, engineer. Landy discusses the first talk she gave for Power to Fly & what she learned from that experience. We also cover why Landy took up writing, including a very successful Elastic Search Engine article that peaked the interest of some important industry folks and led to her Power to Fly conference.  Other topics discussed in this episode include: Companies can always tell you their vision but not exactly what they want  Why optimizing search engines matters Why zoom Socials kind of suck, and much more. Landy's blog: https://simplyy.medium.com/ Landy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/simp_lyy

    45 min

  6. 02/09/2021

    Charity Majors, CTO of HoneyComb.io — Empowering great engineering teams with great tooling

    This week Matt sits down with Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb. Charity discusses the dangers of aging code in pre-production, what it takes to lead an engineering organization, from on-call, to management, to hiring. Some other topics discussed in this episode include: Spending 3 years at a big company is enough Do Managers need to be technically literate? Why having a work “home base” is important Why having a little bit of curiosity will save you time in the long run & much more...

    1h 29m

  7. 01/28/2021

    Nora — Confidence as a junior developer & should you do a bootcamp?

    This week Matt sits down with Nora, a junior developer at a digital consultancy, to discuss having success in theprofessional world of programming despite not having a University Degree. Noratalks about the confidence that graduating from a programming bootcamp gave her & how she has been able to take that with her to excel in her career.  Another highlight from this episode included how continuing to learn about other aspects of programming are important to your growth, even if you are not using them on a daily basis.

    30 min

  8. 01/14/2021

    Sameer Mehta - Engineering Organized Learning & Productivity

    This week Matt sits down with Sameer to talk about excelling in your first role and using it as a stepping stone, establishing a personal knowledgebase, and the importance of staying organized. We dive into how Sameer got started building contract versioning software for the Real Estate space and his experience converting a legacy Ruby on Rails and Ember application to NextJS.  Some other highlights from the episode: How Sameer implements Zettlekasten to take detailed notes of his favorite books and podcasts. Why the experience from your first job may be more important than the job itself.

    52 min
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What's it actually like working on a product team in tech? Each episode, Matthew interviews folks from all facets of the tech industry. We'll be interviewing developers, product managers, scrum masters, and managers what their day to day is like, what practices keep their team running smoothly, and what they look for in new team members.

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  • Creator
    Matthew Weeks
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2021
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Matthew Weeks
  • Show Website
    Work In Programming

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