The Engineering People Show, Episode 35: Chris McCooey
Treehouse founder and CEO Ryan Carson interviews Chris McCooey about developing engineers, nurturing innovators and creating experiences that delight users.
Break Rooms, not Job Fairs: How to hire the perfect junior developer
Hiring outside engineering talent is expensive, time-consuming and risky. Here are some ways that savvy tech companies conserve those resources and still acquire the junior devs they need.
The Engineering People Show, Episode 34: Robert Stewart
On today’s episode, Ryan chats with the CTO and Chief Architect at Castlight about his career, engineering-team leadership, machine-learning algorithms and more!
The Engineering People Show, Episode 33: Don Thompson
Treehouse CEO/founder Ryan Carson sits down with Don Thompson, the VP of Software Development at Nextech Systems, to talk about his long career and unique perspective on the company.
Team Treehouse’s “Hey, have you seen this?” list for October 9th
Talent bidding wars, managing teams, building a better future of equity, diversity and inclusion: Here’s what we’ve been reading at Treehouse this week:
Change Wave 004: Dory Weiss
“The things that I loved about being a teacher and a facilitator, and the ways that I like to think about classroom dynamics, those things translate very well to organizational dynamics”
Change Wave 003: Gary Ogasawara
“Stay as deeply technical for as long as possible. I try to do that today: Write code, read code as much as possible. It gives you a better understanding of the people you’re managing, so you could understand how difficult things are.”
Read MoreChange Wave 002: Daniel Doubrovkine
“I felt like I needed some structure to understand how actual software in larger organizations is built, because a lot of our failures I thought were structural.”
Read MoreWhat scheduling time for daily learning says to your employees
Scheduling time for daily learning sends clear messages to employees, and can help keep a company ahead of the curve. Here’s what those messages say.
Read MoreBecome a Certified Developer with a Techdegree
Our mission for Techdegree is to help people to learn the skills they need to change their lives by providing a structured program with a rigorous curriculum, 9+ portfolio projects, a support network and a proctored final exam. Challenge yourself, deepen your skills and prove your knowledge to potential employers. All in 6-12 months, on your own schedule.
Read MoreChange Wave 001: Mikey Butler
“The definition of merit is culturally specific so non-majority-culture people show up and don’t line up with the traditional definition of merit. The broadening of the definition, understanding that it needs to be modified as a result of you going down the path of inclusion becomes part of the journey your company has to make.”
Read MoreThe Engineering People Show, Episode 32: Ben Adida
Treehouse founder/CEO Ryan Carson sits down with Ben Adida, the VP Engineering at Clever.com, the leading K-12 education platform.
Read MoreReact, Angular, Vue: What they can do and which one is for you
Selecting a front end JavaScript framework can be a difficult, confusing process. React and Angular — now there’s this new thing called Vue? You don’t have time to learn all three. So, how do you choose?
Read MoreThe Engineering People Show, Episode 31: Tim Goodwin
“I can’t spend 10 hours a day at work and 10 hours a day with family. I can’t sleep faster.”
Read MoreThe Engineering People Show, Episode 30: Nidhi Gupta
“If retention is busted, no matter how many candidates you bring in through the funnel, it’s a leaky funnel — so people, even if you attract them and they join the company, will just leave.”
Read MoreWeak Ties, Strong Network: How to find your first freelance client
So you’ve decided to try your hand at freelancing as a web developer. Now comes the challenging part: finding clients. I promise, finding your first freelance client is not as hard as it sounds.
Read MoreThe Engineering People Show, Episode 29: Andy Markham
“We want to make sure that we’re staffing our business in a way that reflects the people that we work with.”
Read MoreThe Engineering People Show, Episode 28: Christian McCarrick
“… make sure that you find whatever it is that rejuvenates you and gives you back that energy, that you make time for yourself and you focus on that — because if you’re failing emotionally as…
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