Turing School Podcast

In perhaps a very fitting way to wrap up the Career Pathways Series, we talk to Ian Douglas about Developer Advocacy, a role that really demonstrates how software development skills can be applied in a variety of meaningful ways. Ian dives into how different this role can look from company to company, the travel, the conferences, the content, the glamor. Are Developer Advocactes the influencers of software? You decide. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Bailey and Jeannie sit down with Foster Taylor to talk all about his experience as a QA Engineer. We discuss the role QA plays in the Software Development Lifecycle and the nuanced techhical and non-technical skills he acquired and fine-tuned. Come for the QA, stay for laughs! If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

In this interview, Kate Tester really breaks down the role of Data Engineering into its component parts from pipeline building to stakeholder tooling. She dives deep into important concepts, tooling, and her day-to-day work. We loved talking with Kate and learning about her journey from Turing Backend Engineering student and SQL enthusiast to downstream data consumer. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

In this episode with Leiya Kenney we have an amazing and honest conversation on her time as a Support Engineer. We talk about what her experience was and the ways support engineering can differ from company to company. And, let's be honest, there can be a huge stigma tied to this role. Leiya breaks that down too. Tune in and learn all about this amazing role, full of technical challenges and growth opportunities.

We loved chatting with Cristina Peña about her role as a UX Engineer. In this episode Cristina walks us through setting up component libraries, the specifics of what she learned at Turing that helped her, and what it's like setting up a new UX Engineering team with a tenured teammate. If you are interested in design and front end engineering this is definitely an episode that you will enjoy! If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Bailey Diveley and Jeannie Evans sit down with Rob Stringer to talk about Site Reliability Engineering and his unique path to get here. If you are someone who likes to learn how things work under the hood, you're going to want to have a listen. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Come meet Nikki Holland-Plum and hear about her journey to Data Engineering. In this episode you will learn about the tools often used in this career and how you too can show tenacity by not taking no for an answer. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Leah Miller talks with hosts, Bailey Diveley and Jeannie Evans, about her career as a Technical Product Manager. She discusses in depth how a technical product manager plays an important role in scoping out work, processes unique to her role and how she was able to leverage her previous career to level up in her new one. Tune in to learn how Leah made her own luck as she transitioned from software engineer to technical product manager. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Our conversation with December Garnet-Smith reveals what it takes to be a successful self-employed software engineer. December walks us through drafting contracts, solving problems, staying involved in a collaborative dev community and how to do all that and more on a team of one. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Devin Beliveau walks hosts, Jeannie Evans and Bailey Diveley, through her career as a Technical Writer. She discusses her career journey and how she merged her writing and technical skillsets. Devin dives deep into her roles and responsibilities, team structure, and audience, and how that all can vary depending on the job. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

In the first interview for the Career Pathways series, Bailey Diveley interviews Mike Wood on his experience as a Product Manager. They get into the details on what the role is like, unique challenges PMs face, and the tools and resources commonly used. Come for the questions, stay for the jira, software development lifecycle & decision-making skills.

 Join cohosts Jeannie & Bailey as we kickoff episode zero of the new Career Pathways series on the Hello Turing World podcast. In this series of shorts, we'll be chatting with Turing School alum & former staff whose resumes boast a variety of technical titles.  From Data Engineer to UX Designer to Product Manager, we delve into the specifics of their roles and explore the skills that have contributed to their success.  Listen in to episode 0 to learn the what and why behind this new series idea. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

In our final episode of the New Developer Series, Alaina Kneiling and Jesse Spevack share strategies for building a diverse mentorship matrix. They explore how tapping into a range of expertise and perspectives can supercharge your learning and your career growth. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Hosts Alaina Kneiling and Jesse Spevack guide new software devs through their first job hunt journey, emphasizing the importance of avoiding tunnel vision after those initial interviews and tips for taking back power in the process. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Hosts Alaina Kneiling and Jesse Spevack chat about starting, finishing and enhancing our personal projects with interview prep in mind. 

This week, hosts Alaina Kneiling and Jesse Spevack candidly address the challenges of coping with rejection during the job search process. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Join hosts Alaina Kneiling and Jesse Spevack this week as they discuss the leap into software engineering from entirely different industries, emphasizing the importance of showcasing transferable skills and fresh viewpoints during the job hunt. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Listen in with hosts Alaina and Jesse as they provide insights and practical advice for new developers worried about applying for jobs in a different tech stack than what they learned in school. Their reassuring words and actionable tips will empower you to hit the submit button on those job applications, no matter the tech stack. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Bailey welcomes fellow podcast host, Stripe engineer, and 1606 alum Jesse Spevack to the hot seat. Tune in to learn more about the educator-turned-engineer-turned-podcast-host whose final interview reveals his hopes for the future of the pod and a peek into what he has coming up next, https://www.verynormal.info. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

This week, hosts Alaina and Jesse share strategies for leveraging your Turing cohort to prep for job interviews.  From practicing failure to joining hype rooms, tune in to gain some valuable insights. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.  

Bailey and Jesse chat with Travis Haby 1507 alum and Staff Engineer at Guild. They discuss his Turing story, his roots in education, his background in physics, the Blakement, his job as the first engineer at Guild, watching engineering culture grow at Guild, hiring at Guild, the Climate Crisis, and some advice. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Jesse speaks with Abdul Redd, Backend Instructor at Turing about how he found Turing, how he learned to code, code school instructional models, getting hired at Turing, instruction at Turing, and advice for potential students. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Tired of the usual suspects on job boards? Join hosts Jesse and Alaina as they reveal creative ways to unearth fresh job openings and differentiate yourself from the masses. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Jesse chats with Gavin Carew, 2207 BE Alum and Jack In the Box Software Engineer about his Turing story, his tips for being a successful Turing student, his job search, coming up to speed on Kotlin, his current work, advice for current prospective students, asking questions, and optimism for the future. A few classic Jim Weirich conference talks are What all Rubyists should know about Threads - https://youtu.be/4zbN29UkNQw?si=s9v1kqIg22K2v0iu and SOLID Principles in Ruby - https://youtu.be/1BVFlvRPZVM?si=nJ05gm2wI1kOSFHf If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.  

Bailey and Jesse chat with 1511 Alum and Senior Software Engineer at HackerOne, Heidi Hoopes about her Turing Story, networking, her career, hiring, resume tips, working for the government, and other topics. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Alaina and Jesse share effective strategies for leveraging GitHub's commit history to stand out during job interviews.  Drawing inspiration from their own experiences, they share tips on curating a compelling coding narrative. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Bailey and Jesse chat with Matt Kaufman, a Staff Front End Engineer at Afresh and 1608 FE Alum. They discuss love, Matt's background in control engineering, the benefits of the Turing community, mission driven companies, engineering management, staff level engineering, capitalism, performance reviews, and other topics. They mention a few books, including Managing Humans by Michael Lopp and The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Hosts Jesse and Bailey are reunited and chat with Evan Wheeler, Senior Software Engineer at Peloton and 1801 BE Alum. The trio discuss Evan's Turing story, arborism, the job search, mentoring, imposter syndrome, Evan's work at Peloton, the developer experience going through an acquisition, company reorganizations, technologies that solve for scale, AI, and other topics. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Alaina and Jesse discuss the habits they adopted to maintain a high level of focus and confidence while navigating the job hunt, especially following their departure from the highly structured schedule at Turing.

Jesse speaks with Lex Stewart, Career Specialist at Turing about their Turing story, new grad services at Turing, personal branding, making mistakes early, how alumni can support recent grads (and what they shouldn't do), career coaching, video games, and other topics. This episode marks the 1 year anniversary of the Hello Turing World Podcast relaunch. You can find our new developer series at - https://foregoing-dogwood-6b9.notion.site/Hello-Turing-World-Podcast-New-Developer-Series-e64b2f7e36a946148809a73fe95a8fa0?pvs=4   If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Jesse chats with Josh O'Bannon, FusionAuth Engineering Support Team Lead and 1909 BE Alum about Josh's Turing story, relgion and spirituality, FusionAuth, authentication, and the field of Support Engineering. There are some child related background noises. Is AI Taking Over Dev Jobs? (https://writing.turing.edu/is-ai-taking-over-dev-jobs/) If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Jesse chats with Mike Schutte, 1608 Alum, about his Turing story, sociology, capitalism, Shape Up, clean code, the principle of parsimony, front end engineering, and running. Check out Mike's running planner utility (https://strava-insights.vercel.app/), the writing tool he built (https://first-fifty.vercel.app/) and his Arc Browser recommendation (https://arc.net/). If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

The original Turing Podcast creator and host, Brennan Holzclaw joins Jesse to share his Turing story, the origins of the Turing podcast, his pre-Turing life in radio, his work in C#, management, boomeranging between jobs, AI, fatherhood, and adoption.   If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register at turing.edu/try-coding.

Jesse chats with Josh Thompson 1701 BE Alum about his Turing story, Mythical Creatures, blogging, writing, TIL workflow, Scooters, traffic, urban design, and what's next. Some books mentioned are The Power Broker by Robert Caro, A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein, and Streetfight by Janette Sadik-Khan.  You can read more from Josh at josh.works including his Turing guide at https://josh.works/turing-backend-prep-01-intro and his Robert Moses post at https://josh.works/robert-moses. You can learn more about Josh's traffic work at https://www.tiktok.com/@josh_exists If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Bailey & Jesse chat with the Director of Turing's Backend Program and Turing Alum Amy Holt about her Turing Story, her career at Turing, management, the future of the Backend program, and . If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Bailey and Jesse chat with 2207 BE Alum Alaina Kneiling about her Turing story, the bond she built with her cohort mates, her tenacious job search, interview tips, her new career as a software developer and combating imposter syndrome. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Bailey & Jesse chat with Horace Williams, a member of the first proto-Turing program called Hungry Academy in 2012. Horace was one of the first instructors at Turing and is a current Staff Software Engineer at Medallion. The discuss the early days of code schools and Turing, Horace's work on political campaigns, Clojure, Ann Arbor, and other topics. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Jesse chats with Eric Weissman the Director of Turings Launch Program all about the new Launch Program. Link to Launch Site: https://turing.edu/launch Schedule time to learn more about Launch: https://go.oncehub.com/EricWeissman Email: eric@turing.edu If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Bailey and Jesse chat with Turing's Director of Strategic Partnerships, Stephanie Pacheco-Davidson about her Turing story, her identity, the growth opportunities for strategic partnerships, the Q1 2023 Turing Jobs report, how Turing centers its mission in its work with strategic partners, and other topics.   Checkout the Turing Jobs Report from Q1 2023 - https://writing.turing.edu/q1-2023-jobs-and-hiring-report/ If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.  

At the start of every inning, Jeff Casimir updates our Turing community on the State of Turing. This SoT from 2305 is from May 8, 2023 where Jeff discusses relationships, technology, and staying connected.  If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.

Bailey and Jesse chat with Try Coding Instructor Brandi Gehrke about her Turing story, the Turing Try Coding session for folks thinking about enrolling at Turing, the goals of try coding, Turing vs. traditional computer science programs, what's up next at Try coding, and other topics. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.

Bailey & Jesse speak with Wheel Health Software Engineer and 1711 BE alum Ellen Cornelius about her Turing story, her career, start ups, and the hackathon she organized in Denver - Mile High Hack. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.

A huge part of our jobs as Software Developers is to keep on learning. In our last episode of season 1 of the New Dev Series Jeannie, Bailey, and Jesse break down what this can look like, when to find the time, and how to best be supported. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.

Jesse talks with Senior Software Engineer, gSchool 0 grad, and former director of the Backend program, Josh Mejia. They discuss Josh's Turing story, the overlap between coders and musicians, gSchool, the early days of Turing, teaching, cognitive biases, individual contributor and management tracks, the current software developer market, and other topics. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.

Jeannie and Jesse discuss what you might expect in your first on call rotation, how it can suck, and what to do when it does. If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.

Bailey and Jesse chat with Tilt Engineering Manager and former Turing Front End director Pamela Lovett about her Turing story, her career, engineering management, having a healthy mindset when it comes to challenges, and other topics. You can connect with Pam on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/thatpamiam/ If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.

Jeannie, Bailey, and Jesse walk through what the Software Development Lifecycle is and how to be a successful part of this process as a junior dev. We went a little long on this one, but as you will discover, there is a lot to cover If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.

Jesse chats with Software Engineer and Mod 0 TA Cydnee Owens about her Turing story, her work in devops, the Turing Mod 0 program and other topics. You can connect with Cydnee on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/cydnee-owens-5280 If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.

1:1s might be the most important meeting you have all week. Jesse, Jeannie, and Bailey discuss ways to make the most of these meetings and what red flags to look out for.

Bailey and Jesse chat with Gusto Principal Infrastructure Engineer Toni Rib about her Turing story, her career growth, mentorship, risk mitigation, the role of a Principal engineer, giving back, and other topics. Connect with Toni on twitter at https://twitter.com/tonimarierib and on linkedIn at https://twitter.com/tonimarierib. Checkout Jeff Casimir's State of Turing talk from March 21st here: https://vimeo.com/turing/2320-state-of-turing If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.

Career progression, titles, and leveling vary depending on the company and role. On this episode of the New Dev Series Jeannie, Jesse, and Bailey break down what this can look like by sharing their own experiences and processes they have be a part of. How do you define your own career progression and what does it mean to level up?