From Junior Engineer to Productive Engineer
summary
Comverge hires and runs a Junior Engineer program that uses concrete tasks not platitudes juniors complete a Rails app to provision iPhone versions learn Pivotal Tracker and the Git branching and pull request flow practice TDD BDD with Jenkins failures and a converted command line crash course the mentor dedicates about 20–25% time early on two juniors outperform one because they pair and ask better questions result wise staff doubles from one to three juniors Beth reaches productive in six to nine months John in two to three and Josh in weeks
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:52About Me
- 1:23Converge
- 1:46Ruby on Rails
- 2:31Training
- 3:59John Williams
- 4:28Mentoring
- 5:04Interview Process
- 5:43Web Browser
- 7:00Pairing
- 8:18Processes
- 9:28converge stories
- 10:26build failures
- 11:05Josh
- 12:06What Did We Gain
- 13:33What Did We Learn
- 13:56Bloopers
- 14:19Question
- 16:54Rails Experience
- 17:42Future Plans
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