You might read up on http://www.appaftercare.com/, the guy who started it is named Einar Vollset. It's a similar idea (I think) and he has published a lot of material about getting started with it.
I've interviewed a handful of people for junior positions, so take this with a grain of salt. I usually look for:
* Basic coding ability -- maybe a couple simple whiteboard questions, or walk through some code
* Able to learn things -- talking about past projects, interesting things they've learned, ask them to explain their past work to me (doesn't have to be tech)
* Able to ask decent questions -- Unfortunately I don't have a good standard for this, but generally I like candidates that can form a straightforward question about the role, the company, the tech stack, really anything.
Basically for a junior position, I am not looking for someone who will deliver a lot of value on day 1. Instead I am looking for someone who is curious, learns quickly, and can learn the necessary skills to deliver value later. A quick learner will be great in a year, a slow learner or someone who doesn't care to learn will not.
I have an art degree -- sculpture. I graduated, couldn't find good work, and went to a community college to learn programming. I wouldn't say my art background has much application to my current job.
We are a video advertising monetization platform serving billions of requests a day. We're hiring for a variety of positions and levels of experience here in Denver / Westminster, and we need a QA person for our Belfast, Ireland office.
We mostly work with PHP, Angular, Java, and Hadoop. We stay busy and we're growing fast, but work-life balance is good and it's a great opportunity to work on problems at scale. I'm new to the company and it's been great.
Email me at [email protected] and I'll answer questions or route you to someone who knows the answer.
Quitting jobs and moving without having the next job lined up. I always figured I was a smart guy, I could land on my feet wherever I ended up. And that was true, but it took some time and effort to get a job that lined up with my career goals, and while that was happening I was pretty stressed out. I also feel like I've lost about a year of growth (and salary!), which is hard to let go of.
I realize that this isn't really a big revelation, but it didn't really hit home for me until I got into a real "career" -- it wasn't such a big deal when I worked retail jobs.
I can think of a few reasons, mostly that it implies[] criticism the same way most abstinence does. But you should check out the reaction to the previous BBC coverage in my other comment to get an idea of other reasons.
I'm Scott, I have 3 years' experience in web application development, and I'm looking to join a small or medium sized technology company. I'm a quick study and a nice guy.
Shoot me an email, in profile -- there's a Denver developers slack channel that has a few job listings. And it's a good place to meet other devs in town.
Of course I had to google it, and I seem to have missed whatever's so disgusting about it (guessing an insect-infested wound or something based on reactions here).
"Trypophobia is a claimed pathological fear of holes, particularly irregular patterns of holes. ... Shapes that elicit a reaction were said to include clustered holes in innocuous contexts such as fruit and bubbles, and in contexts associated with danger, such as holes made by insects and holes in wounds and diseased tissue."
I'm Scott, I have 3 years' experience in web application development, and I'm looking to join a small or medium sized technology company. I'm a quick study and a nice guy.