naomiajacobs

4 yıl öncediscuss

+1 for the bootcamp route! I did a bootcamp in 2015 and never looked back - even though some are definitely scammy, when they work they work. If anyone's interested, I recently wrote up my experiences here https://naomiajacobs.com/Should-You-Go-To-A-Coding-Bootcamp/

naomiajacobs

4 yıl öncediscuss

> Also Amazon is top tier, wouldn't expect someone with 3 months experience being able to keep up unless they were really top notch.

I attended a bootcamp in 2015 and know two people, one in my cohort, and one in the next, who both got jobs at Amazon right out of the bootcamp. At the time, cohorts were every 6 weeks with 80 people/cohort, so that's ~1 out of 80 bootcamp grads who made it into Amazon (granted, with a small sample size), with more in FAANG generally (Google was more open to bootcamp grads than the others).

naomiajacobs

5 yıl öncediscuss

The idea of charging per-chapter (yes, I know it isn't a new model, Charles Dickens, etc) is interesting for:

- the restrictions it'll impose on the authors - it means authors will have to know the entire plot up-front and can't redo or rearrange chapters - the pressure to have every chapter end with a cliff-hanger or something else to get the user to buy the next chapter - the effect on the reader (will people finish fewer books?)

naomiajacobs

5 yıl öncediscuss

Well, you can, but you'll annoy people even more than if you had a mechanical keyboard ;) I do have a little needle-felted rubber duck I keep on my desk while working, remotely, though, for just that reason.

naomiajacobs

5 yıl öncediscuss

As someone who worked in an all pairing shop for two years (run by a bunch of former Pivots), I can confirm it’s pretty draining, though my experience wasn’t nearly as bad.

I actually liked pairing a lot of the time, and still think it’s an excellent way to onboard into a new code base, even in a non pairing shop (I even miss it sometimes!). For me, the main drawback after a while was that I felt like I was less efficient when pairing on stuff I knew how to do, and my personal growth as an engineer was stunted because I could always lean on a more experienced pair. Since that was my first eng gig, my second job had quite a steep learning curve as I had to figure out how to debug and navigate on my own, without talking through it out loud.

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