I have had a lot of conversations with code school grads/career switchers since I made the career switch from teaching into software engineering and thought it was about time to start collecting all those tips/ resources etc.
I hope you find some of these things useful. It is important to note that I am a cis/straight/white woman and your mileage may vary on some of these things. It may be useful to know that I am also a small-fat (still a lot of privelege there), very short, person that also handles anxiety & panic disorder.
Stuff in here might be useful if you have just left code school or an internship and are:
- starting your careeras a software/web engineer/developer,
- an early career engineer looking for your next job,
- onboarding/mentoring a new engineer,
- your job involves knowledge sharing,
- managing an earlier career engineer
TILOWIK = Things I Learned Or Wish I'd Known
- TILOWIK while In code school
- TILOWIK while In code school internship
- PEP TALK!!!
- TILOWIK on the first job hunt
- General Job hunt resources
- TILOWIK when starting that first job
- Working with mentors & managers
- On Assumptions
- On Questions
- Pep Talk!
- On Instructions
- On Expectations
- On Learning
- On Teaming
- Things that made me stay in a job
- Things that made me want to quit
- Pep Talk!