Work In Programming Matthew Weeks

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


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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.

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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.


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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


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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


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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...


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