Turing School Podcast: Recent Episodes
Alexander Rau, Kevin Simpson (formerly Jamison Ordway, Richard RosaSerrano, Victoria Vasys, Travis Gregory, Brennan Holzclaw, Matt Campbell, in order)
Weekly updates and interviews regarding Turing School of Software and design and the greater web development community as a whole.
In perhaps a very fitting way to wrap up the Career Pathways Series, we talk to Ian Douglas about Developer Advocacy, a role that really demonstrates how software development skills can be applied in a variety of meaningful ways. Ian dives into how different this role can look from company to company, the travel, the conferences, the content, the glamor. Are Developer Advocactes the influencers of software? You decide.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey and Jeannie sit down with Foster Taylor to talk all about his experience as a QA Engineer. We discuss the role QA plays in the Software Development Lifecycle and the nuanced techhical and non-technical skills he acquired and fine-tuned. Come for the QA, stay for laughs!
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
In this interview, Kate Tester really breaks down the role of Data Engineering into its component parts from pipeline building to stakeholder tooling. She dives deep into important concepts, tooling, and her day-to-day work. We loved talking with Kate and learning about her journey from Turing Backend Engineering student and SQL enthusiast to downstream data consumer.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
In this episode with Leiya Kenney we have an amazing and honest conversation on her time as a Support Engineer. We talk about what her experience was and the ways support engineering can differ from company to company. And, let’s be honest, there can be a huge stigma tied to this role. Leiya breaks that down too. Tune in and learn all about this amazing role, full of technical challenges and growth opportunities.
We loved chatting with Cristina Peña about her role as a UX Engineer. In this episode Cristina walks us through setting up component libraries, the specifics of what she learned at Turing that helped her, and what it’s like setting up a new UX Engineering team with a tenured teammate. If you are interested in design and front end engineering this is definitely an episode that you will enjoy!
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey Diveley and Jeannie Evans sit down with Rob Stringer to talk about Site Reliability Engineering and his unique path to get here. If you are someone who likes to learn how things work under the hood, you’re going to want to have a listen.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Come meet Nikki Holland-Plum and hear about her journey to Data Engineering. In this episode you will learn about the tools often used in this career and how you too can show tenacity by not taking no for an answer.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Leah Miller talks with hosts, Bailey Diveley and Jeannie Evans, about her career as a Technical Product Manager. She discusses in depth how a technical product manager plays an important role in scoping out work, processes unique to her role and how she was able to leverage her previous career to level up in her new one. Tune in to learn how Leah made her own luck as she transitioned from software engineer to technical product manager.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Our conversation with December Garnet-Smith reveals what it takes to be a successful self-employed software engineer. December walks us through drafting contracts, solving problems, staying involved in a collaborative dev community and how to do all that and more on a team of one.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Devin Beliveau walks hosts, Jeannie Evans and Bailey Diveley, through her career as a Technical Writer. She discusses her career journey and how she merged her writing and technical skillsets. Devin dives deep into her roles and responsibilities, team structure, and audience, and how that all can vary depending on the job.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
In the first interview for the Career Pathways series, Bailey Diveley interviews Mike Wood on his experience as a Product Manager. They get into the details on what the role is like, unique challenges PMs face, and the tools and resources commonly used. Come for the questions, stay for the jira, software development lifecycle & decision-making skills.
Join cohosts Jeannie & Bailey as we kickoff episode zero of the new Career Pathways series on the Hello Turing World podcast. In this series of shorts, we'll be chatting with Turing School alum & former staff whose resumes boast a variety of technical titles. From Data Engineer to UX Designer to Product Manager, we delve into the specifics of their roles and explore the skills that have contributed to their success. Listen in to episode 0 to learn the what and why behind this new series idea.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
In our final episode of the New Developer Series, Alaina Kneiling and Jesse Spevack share strategies for building a diverse mentorship matrix. They explore how tapping into a range of expertise and perspectives can supercharge your learning and your career growth.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Hosts Alaina Kneiling and Jesse Spevack guide new software devs through their first job hunt journey, emphasizing the importance of avoiding tunnel vision after those initial interviews and tips for taking back power in the process.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Hosts Alaina Kneiling and Jesse Spevack chat about starting, finishing and enhancing our personal projects with interview prep in mind.
This week, hosts Alaina Kneiling and Jesse Spevack candidly address the challenges of coping with rejection during the job search process.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Join hosts Alaina Kneiling and Jesse Spevack this week as they discuss the leap into software engineering from entirely different industries, emphasizing the importance of showcasing transferable skills and fresh viewpoints during the job hunt.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Listen in with hosts Alaina and Jesse as they provide insights and practical advice for new developers worried about applying for jobs in a different tech stack than what they learned in school. Their reassuring words and actionable tips will empower you to hit the submit button on those job applications, no matter the tech stack.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey welcomes fellow podcast host, Stripe engineer, and 1606 alum Jesse Spevack to the hot seat. Tune in to learn more about the educator-turned-engineer-turned-podcast-host whose final interview reveals his hopes for the future of the pod and a peek into what he has coming up next, https://www.verynormal.info.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
This week, hosts Alaina and Jesse share strategies for leveraging your Turing cohort to prep for job interviews. From practicing failure to joining hype rooms, tune in to gain some valuable insights.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey and Jesse chat with Travis Haby 1507 alum and Staff Engineer at Guild. They discuss his Turing story, his roots in education, his background in physics, the Blakement, his job as the first engineer at Guild, watching engineering culture grow at Guild, hiring at Guild, the Climate Crisis, and some advice.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Jesse speaks with Abdul Redd, Backend Instructor at Turing about how he found Turing, how he learned to code, code school instructional models, getting hired at Turing, instruction at Turing, and advice for potential students.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Tired of the usual suspects on job boards? Join hosts Jesse and Alaina as they reveal creative ways to unearth fresh job openings and differentiate yourself from the masses.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Jesse chats with Gavin Carew, 2207 BE Alum and Jack In the Box Software Engineer about his Turing story, his tips for being a successful Turing student, his job search, coming up to speed on Kotlin, his current work, advice for current prospective students, asking questions, and optimism for the future. A few classic Jim Weirich conference talks are What all Rubyists should know about Threads - https://youtu.be/4zbN29UkNQw?si=s9v1kqIg22K2v0iu and SOLID Principles in Ruby - https://youtu.be/1BVFlvRPZVM?si=nJ05gm2wI1kOSFHf
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey and Jesse chat with 1511 Alum and Senior Software Engineer at HackerOne, Heidi Hoopes about her Turing Story, networking, her career, hiring, resume tips, working for the government, and other topics.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Alaina and Jesse share effective strategies for leveraging GitHub's commit history to stand out during job interviews. Drawing inspiration from their own experiences, they share tips on curating a compelling coding narrative.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey and Jesse chat with Matt Kaufman, a Staff Front End Engineer at Afresh and 1608 FE Alum. They discuss love, Matt's background in control engineering, the benefits of the Turing community, mission driven companies, engineering management, staff level engineering, capitalism, performance reviews, and other topics. They mention a few books, including Managing Humans by Michael Lopp and The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Hosts Jesse and Bailey are reunited and chat with Evan Wheeler, Senior Software Engineer at Peloton and 1801 BE Alum. The trio discuss Evan's Turing story, arborism, the job search, mentoring, imposter syndrome, Evan's work at Peloton, the developer experience going through an acquisition, company reorganizations, technologies that solve for scale, AI, and other topics.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Alaina and Jesse discuss the habits they adopted to maintain a high level of focus and confidence while navigating the job hunt, especially following their departure from the highly structured schedule at Turing.
Jesse speaks with Lex Stewart, Career Specialist at Turing about their Turing story, new grad services at Turing, personal branding, making mistakes early, how alumni can support recent grads (and what they shouldn’t do), career coaching, video games, and other topics. This episode marks the 1 year anniversary of the Hello Turing World Podcast relaunch. You can find our new developer series at - https://foregoing-dogwood-6b9.notion.site/Hello-Turing-World-Podcast-New-Developer-Series-e64b2f7e36a946148809a73fe95a8fa0?pvs=4
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Jesse chats with Josh O'Bannon, FusionAuth Engineering Support Team Lead and 1909 BE Alum about Josh's Turing story, relgion and spirituality, FusionAuth, authentication, and the field of Support Engineering. There are some child related background noises. Is AI Taking Over Dev Jobs? (https://writing.turing.edu/is-ai-taking-over-dev-jobs/)
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Jesse chats with Mike Schutte, 1608 Alum, about his Turing story, sociology, capitalism, Shape Up, clean code, the principle of parsimony, front end engineering, and running. Check out Mike's running planner utility (https://strava-insights.vercel.app/), the writing tool he built (https://first-fifty.vercel.app/) and his Arc Browser recommendation (https://arc.net/).
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
The original Turing Podcast creator and host, Brennan Holzclaw joins Jesse to share his Turing story, the origins of the Turing podcast, his pre-Turing life in radio, his work in C#, management, boomeranging between jobs, AI, fatherhood, and adoption.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register at turing.edu/try-coding.
Jesse chats with Josh Thompson 1701 BE Alum about his Turing story, Mythical Creatures, blogging, writing, TIL workflow, Scooters, traffic, urban design, and what's next. Some books mentioned are The Power Broker by Robert Caro, A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein, and Streetfight by Janette Sadik-Khan.
You can read more from Josh at josh.works including his Turing guide at https://josh.works/turing-backend-prep-01-intro and his Robert Moses post at https://josh.works/robert-moses. You can learn more about Josh's traffic work at https://www.tiktok.com/@josh_exists
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey & Jesse chat with the Director of Turing's Backend Program and Turing Alum Amy Holt about her Turing Story, her career at Turing, management, the future of the Backend program, and .
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey and Jesse chat with 2207 BE Alum Alaina Kneiling about her Turing story, the bond she built with her cohort mates, her tenacious job search, interview tips, her new career as a software developer and combating imposter syndrome.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey & Jesse chat with Horace Williams, a member of the first proto-Turing program called Hungry Academy in 2012. Horace was one of the first instructors at Turing and is a current Staff Software Engineer at Medallion. The discuss the early days of code schools and Turing, Horace’s work on political campaigns, Clojure, Ann Arbor, and other topics.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. You can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Jesse chats with Eric Weissman the Director of Turings Launch Program all about the new Launch Program.
Link to Launch Site: https://turing.edu/launch Schedule time to learn more about Launch: https://go.oncehub.com/EricWeissman Email: eric@turing.edu
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey and Jesse chat with Turing’s Director of Strategic Partnerships, Stephanie Pacheco-Davidson about her Turing story, her identity, the growth opportunities for strategic partnerships, the Q1 2023 Turing Jobs report, how Turing centers its mission in its work with strategic partners, and other topics.
Checkout the Turing Jobs Report from Q1 2023 - https://writing.turing.edu/q1-2023-jobs-and-hiring-report/
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
At the start of every inning, Jeff Casimir updates our Turing community on the State of Turing. This SoT from 2305 is from May 8, 2023 where Jeff discusses relationships, technology, and staying connected.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can register for a free Try Coding class at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey and Jesse chat with Try Coding Instructor Brandi Gehrke about her Turing story, the Turing Try Coding session for folks thinking about enrolling at Turing, the goals of try coding, Turing vs. traditional computer science programs, what’s up next at Try coding, and other topics.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey & Jesse speak with Wheel Health Software Engineer and 1711 BE alum Ellen Cornelius about her Turing story, her career, start ups, and the hackathon she organized in Denver - Mile High Hack.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.
A huge part of our jobs as Software Developers is to keep on learning. In our last episode of season 1 of the New Dev Series Jeannie, Bailey, and Jesse break down what this can look like, when to find the time, and how to best be supported.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.
Jesse talks with Senior Software Engineer, gSchool 0 grad, and former director of the Backend program, Josh Mejia. They discuss Josh’s Turing story, the overlap between coders and musicians, gSchool, the early days of Turing, teaching, cognitive biases, individual contributor and management tracks, the current software developer market, and other topics.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.
Jeannie and Jesse discuss what you might expect in your first on call rotation, how it can suck, and what to do when it does.
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.
Bailey and Jesse chat with Tilt Engineering Manager and former Turing Front End director Pamela Lovett about her Turing story, her career, engineering management, having a healthy mindset when it comes to challenges, and other topics.
You can connect with Pam on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/thatpamiam/
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.
Jeannie, Bailey, and Jesse walk through what the Software Development Lifecycle is and how to be a successful part of this process as a junior dev. We went a little long on this one, but as you will discover, there is a lot to cover
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.
Jesse chats with Software Engineer and Mod 0 TA Cydnee Owens about her Turing story, her work in devops, the Turing Mod 0 program and other topics.
You can connect with Cydnee on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/cydnee-owens-5280
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.
1:1s might be the most important meeting you have all week. Jesse, Jeannie, and Bailey discuss ways to make the most of these meetings and what red flags to look out for.
Bailey and Jesse chat with Gusto Principal Infrastructure Engineer Toni Rib about her Turing story, her career growth, mentorship, risk mitigation, the role of a Principal engineer, giving back, and other topics.
Connect with Toni on twitter at https://twitter.com/tonimarierib and on linkedIn at https://twitter.com/tonimarierib.
Checkout Jeff Casimir's State of Turing talk from March 21st here: https://vimeo.com/turing/2320-state-of-turing
If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.
Career progression, titles, and leveling vary depending on the company and role. On this episode of the New Dev Series Jeannie, Jesse, and Bailey break down what this can look like by sharing their own experiences and processes they have be a part of. How do you define your own career progression and what does it mean to level up?
Bailey and Jesse are joined by Ibotta Senior Software Engineer and 1606 Alumna Susi Irwin. They disucss Susi’s Turing story, her career growth, how her communication skills have helped her build a successful career in software, being a mom at Turing and in the software world, and other topics. Connect with Susi on linkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/susiirwin/ If you or someone you know are code curious, we encourage you to attend a Turing Try Coding Event. As a listener, you can use code POD100 to register for Try Coding at turing.edu/try-coding.
In this episode of the New Dev Series hosts Bailey, Jesse, and Jeannie discuss the life in the day of a new software developer. They discuss the challenges of a dev's first 6 months - 1 year on the job and advise on how to contribute during that time, all while taking in a ton of new information.
Bailey and Jesse are joined by Peloton Engineer and former Turing Instructor and 1602/03 Alum Ilana Corson. They discuss Ilana’s Turing story, how she became an instructor at Turing, her work as a TestDouble consultant, consultancy vs product work, being female in tech, and how all Turing community members can move the needle on justice and equality.
Jeannie and Jesse hold down the conversation this week as they discuss mentorship in all its forms.
Bailey and Jesse chat with Turing co founder and Revelo Chief Community Officer Jorge Téllez about the early days of Turing, Turing’s mission, the origins of the Turing admissions process, making the tech world more inclusive, Revelo, doing good and other topics.
This week on the New Dev Series, Bailey, Jeannie, and Jesse discuss their experiences with onboarding and what that can look like at different companies.
Bailey and Jesse are joined by the Head of Engineering of Temporal and founder of the Turing Front End Program Steve Kinney. They discuss how Steve joined Turing during the early days, the advent of the Front End Program, his work at Sendgrid, Twilio, Temporal as well as the courses he teaches at Frontend Masters.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevekinney/
Website: https://www.stevekinney.net/
Frontend Masters: https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/steve-kinney/
Temporal: https://temporal.io
Don’t forget to check out https://www.milehighhack.org/ a Denver non profit and civic hackathon.
And apologies for the sound quality of this episode. It’s not the best and we’re working to improve.
In this episode Bailey, Jeannie and Jesse unpack what interviews commonly look like for Software Developers. They give high level overviews on what to expect, share their personal experiences, and get into the weeds about what makes interviewing for your first role unique.
Jesse and Jeannie chat with Turing’s Sr. Growth Marketing Manager Nikki Diminich about her Turing Story, marketing Turing’s mission, finding potential Turing students, design, and the bigLOVISA scholarship fund.
Connect with Nikki
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-diminich-1a5940a/ Instagram: nikkidims11
Join Bailey, Mark, and Jeannie as they discuss their strategies for finding their first roles as Software Developers. They will share their own experiences as well as provide advice to those looking for that first dev job.
Jeannie & Jesse chat with Bailey Diveley, Senior Engineer at Ibotta and 1808 BE Alum, about her past life in the nonprofit world, her future career pivots, learning, metacognition, and a special surprise for long time listeners at the end. Bailey recommended the book Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley and Maybe you Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb.
You can connect with Bailey in the #turing-jcs slack channel or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/baileydiveley/.
Jesse chats with Senior Engineer and 1412 Turing Alum, DJ Greenfield about the early days of Turing, mentorship, job hunting, Turing super powers, privilege, capitalism, AI, and other topics.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dj-greenfield/
Jeannie & Jesse discuss partnership work at Turing with Partnership Manager Robyn Purvin. The conversation covers how Robyn joined the Turing team, how she advocates on behalf of Turing students and alumni, software salaries, tech conferences and other topics.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robyn-purvin/
Host Jesse Spevack speaks with 1708 FE alum and current Googler Katie Scruggs about her Turing story, career, and work with the Joan Clarke Society.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiescruggs
Host Jesse Spevack chats with 1608 BE Alum, former Turing instructor, and current Stripe engineer Ali Schlereth about her Turing story, teaching, parenthood, and making careers in software.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alischlereth
Blog: https://medium.com/@ali_schlereth
Host Jesse Spevack talks with Corey Carter, 2006 BE Alum, former assistant principal and software engineer at Handshake. They commiserate about the challenges of the world of education, Corey’s Turing story, his work at Handshake, his career aspirations, and rugby. They did not mention that Corey’s partner, Anhnhi Tran is a current student!
You can connect with Corey at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carter-codes/
Host Jesse chats with Tan Doan about his Turing story, his experience as a student during the early days of Turing, his career, his move to big tech, and the TAPIDA community.
Show Notes:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/turingjobshadow - sign up to lead a job shadow https://www.signupgenius.com/go/turingwhatsadev - sign up to lead what’s a dev https://www.signupgenius.com/go/turingmockinterviews - sign up to lead mock interviews
Cohosts Jeannie and Jesse chat with Maia Stone, 1608 FE Alum and Director of Engineering at Uplight. Maia shares her Turing story and high velocity career trajectory and then turns to coaching the co hosts on their own careers.
Show Notes:
https://conscious.is/ - Conscious Leadership The Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson
Cohosts Jeannie, Jesse, Mark and Marshall explore some of the themes that have spanned multiple episodes including changing our lives, the future of software development, taking risks, authenticity, and slack bugs.
This will be the last episode of the year, happy holidays!
Book mention: Average is Over by Tyler Cowen.
Jeannie and Jesse chat with Jhun De Andres about his Turing story, family, parenting, therapy, teaching, bookmarks, tech interviews and other topics.
Jesse and Marshall chat with Leah Riffell, engineer at Shopify and 2006 BE Alum about her Turing story, Shopify, nomadic living, continuous learning, social justice, community, all the ways we are not yet there and other topics.
Jesse chats with Alex Robinson, Engineering Manager at Resilia, Former Turing BE Director and 1410 Alum about her Turing story, her career, motherhood, leadership and other topics.
Jesse chats with 2110 BE Alum Devin Pile about his choice to go to Turing, his experience in the program, and his work as a current member of Mod 5.
Co-hosts Jeannie and Jesse discuss the recent layoffs in the tech industry that unfortunately impacted Jeannie. There is lots to be hopeful for!
Co hosts Jeannie & Jesse record a Hello Turing World Podcast Season 1 retrospective. What went well? What can be improved? Who's getting fired?
In lieu of recent layoffs at Twitter, we decided to release season 2 episode 2 early. Consider this a special drop.
Jesse chats with Angela Guardia, Software Engineer at Twitter and 2006 BE Alum about her Turing story, her move from mechanical engineering to Twitter, salary negotiations and more.
Recommendations:
- Neetcode.io
- interviewcake.com
Marshall and Jesse chat with Erin Pintozzi about her work as an instructor at Turing, software development, her approach to coaching, problem solving, social justice, baby food, and hip stretching.
Notes:
Range The humble hash Hip stretching Feeding Littles “Don’t let perfect take away the good” / “Don’t search for perfect, search for done.” Turing Curriculum Blog Posts
Marshall and Jess chat with Turing alum and Handshake Engineer Priya Power about her experience doing Turing remotely, social justice, life at Handshake, education, and other topics.
Turing friends and alumni Jeannine, Marshall, and Jesse speak with Asian Girls Ignite founder Joanne Liu about her Turing story, education, social justice, motherhood, Asian Girls Ignite, and other topics.
Three hosts and Turing Alumni Jeannie, Jesse & Marshall talk with EllenMary Hickmann, Managing Director at Turing School of Software about her path to Turing, her work building community, social justice, education, and other topics.
An interview with Erin Bassity, founder of the Turing Alumni Committee, Turing grad, and current Turing board member.
Reading Recommendations:
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
- Difference Matters by Brenda Allen
- Turing Q2 2022 Jobs and Hiring Report
Three friends and Turing Alum talk about the Turing School, their experience as students and now software developers, the Turing community, and the future of the Hello Turing World Podcast
Reading Recommendations:
Marshall: Range by David Epstein
Jesse: Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
Mark: Riverside, a software for recording podcasts
Shaun's story. A fun conversation with Shaun as he talks about his life as a musician, bootcamp grad, and now full time developer. Hosted by Jeannie Evans and edited by Grayson Palmer.
Aurora's story. Forever educator tells how she found software engineering and continues to teach as she grows her career. Hosted by Jeannie Evans and edited by Grayson Palmer.
Seth's story. Artist, mixologist, DJ, and software engineer, Seth, tells us about his journey to becoming an engineer. Hosted by Jeannie Evans and edited by Grayson Palmer.
Chris' story. Taking skillsets from his time as an Air Force medic, this father tells his story and what the first half of his Turing journey has been like. Hosted by Jeannie Evans and edited by Grayson Palmer.
Aaron's story. From international development to software development. Hosted by Jeannie.
Current Turing students: Jessica Erickson, Jamison Ordway, Alexander Rau, Ashton K. Bailey, Kevin Simpson and Ruth Brand sit down at a communal table to discuss various topics relating to life and the experience of being at Turing, as well as how to handle the various struggles to achieve success.
Topics include:
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Feelings on achieving the end of a Mod at Turing
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The Daily Struggle
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Balancing the Turing Workload
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Life outside of Turing
Also, Drake Bott and Tim Garrity give the low-down on the McPosse at Turing!
Lastly, a big thank you to graduating Turing Podcast member and host: Jamison Ordway!
This episode was recorded and produced by Nick Lindeberg, @NickLindyCodes on Twitter.
Intro/Outro music credit:
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In this special episode of the Turing Podcast, we welcome our new hosts-- Kevin Simpson and Alex Rau from 1806 Front End!
Join us as we dive into some conversations about the day-to-day life at Turing School. Alex Rau will be talking with Sarah Schnall, Student Success Coordinator, to learn more about how Turing aims to support new students before and during Module 1.
Ruth Brand shares about the new extracurricular group, Turing Choir! Research shows that singing with others improves overall health and happiness and decreases stress levels.
Finally, Kevin Simpson will interview Aram Anderson. Aram is a Full Stack Developer at Captain U, and a graduate of Turing Back End program. Find out what students can expect upon graduating from the program.
This episode was recorded and produced by Nick Lindeberg, @NickLindyCodes on Twitter.
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Richard RosaSerrano and Jamison Ordway talk about reviving the Turing podcast for some new episodes, what it's like to be a new student at Turing, and the new format for upcoming cohorts' "Success at Turing" class.
Richard RosaSerrano on twitter: @rosathedev
Jamison Ordway on twitter: @jamisonordway
Megan Arellano on twitter: @classydanger
Justin Troyke on twitter: @j2thjt
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Jeff sits down with Christie to discuss her move from practicing lawyer to software developer.
Ian Douglas joins host Victoria Vasys for a remote episode- live at Stream (GetStream.io)! Ian is Developer Relations Lead at Stream & Turing's very own career coach mentor. Ian has been working with Turing students for about 3 years, helping to refine resumés, mentoring, conducting mock interviews & now even training Turing graduates to run their own mock interviews. We discuss effective resumé writing, what to expect in the mock interview process, what to do if you freeze-up during an interview, why white-boarding as an interview standard should die, networking, how to know if a company is right for you, and much more.
Thanks to Ian for hosting us at Stream, taking the time to chat, and gifting us some sweet swag (see Victoria for a free shirt before they run out!). And thanks to Kevin MacLeod of Icompetech for the lovely tunes he shares royalty-free.
Enjoy the show & as always, leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast or shoot us an email at turingpodcast@gmail.com. Cheers.
Your host Victoria Vasys (1701 Back-end Mod 4) chats with some very special guests, Emily Freeman (1508 Back-end Graduate, developer advocate, public speaker, engineer at Kickbox.io), & Rick Rein (rubyist, CTO of Operation Code https://operationcode.org/) share their experience interviewing, ideas about mentorship, and tips on how to make the most out of your career as a new developer.
Thanks again to our fabulous guests & their patience with our publication as we transition. And thanks to Kevin MacLeod of Icompetech for the lovely tunes he shares royalty-free.
Enjoy the show & leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast or shoot us an email at turingpodcast@gmail.com. We look forward to your feedback! Cheers.
Turing grads Sonia Gupta (1606 Back-end) and Jesse Spevack (1606 Back-end) share their advice on how to make the most out of Turing and how to successfully secure a job. Enjoy the show & feel free to tweet us @turingpodcast or shoot us an email at turingpodcast@gmail.com. Thanks to Kevin MacLeod for sharing his music for our intro & outro jingles & thanks for listening!
Your hosts Victoria Vasys (1701 Back-end Engineering Mod 3) and Travis Gregory (1701 Front-end Engineering Mod 3) talk with Turing grads Ali Schlereth (1608 Back-end) and Matt Kaufman (1608 Front-end) about life after Turing, what their job search was like, and what they are doing in their new found careers. Enjoy the show & leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast or shoot us an email at turingpodcast@gmail.com. We look forward to your feedback and thanks for listening!
Your hosts Victoria Vasys (Back-end Engineering Mod 3) and Travis Gregory (1701 Front-end Engineering Mod 3) talk with some of the new Mod 2 Front/Back end students about their experience thus far at Turing, current projects, and experiences good and bad. Our guests Evan Miller (Mod 2 Front-end), Aaron Olson (Mod 2 Back-end), and Joel Lindow (Mod 2 Back-end) tell us a little about themselves and what brought them to Turing.
We have been facing some recording snaffoos, so please forgive us that the audio quality isn't outstanding quite yet; we're working on transitioning to some better practices :)
Other than that, enjoy the show & leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast or shoot us an email at turingpodcast@gmail.com. We look forward to your feedback! Thanks!
Last night, your hosts Victoria Vasys & Travis Gregory chatted with David Knott of Mod 4 Back-end and Dylan Avery, Elijah Williams, and Mike Limberg of Mod 4 Front-end. They touched on everything from what is a web app to reminiscing on the old smells from one of the former locations, the "Blakement", to the excitement of implementing all kinds of brand-new technologies in their capstones! Three cheers for graduating y'all!
Your hosts Victoria Vasys (1701 Back-end Engineering Mod 2) and Travis Gregory (1701 Front-end Engineering Mod 2) chat with guests Amara Lovato (1611 BEE) and Kyle Zucker (1611 FEE) about the joys of Mod 3, including details about their current personal projects and the power of ReactJS, Express, Ruby on Rails, and implementing APIs. Enjoy the show & leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast and/or with a good 'ol email turingpodcast@gmail.com. We just re-started this podcast & would love to know your thoughts! Thanks!
Your hosts Victoria Vasys (1701 Back-end Engineering Mod 2) and Travis Gregory (1701 Front-end Engineering Mod 2) walk through some of the Turing lingo & give a little overview of current projects for each "mod." Then our guests Jack Pincus (1701 BEE) and Laura Turk (1701 FEE) chat about where they've come from, what's happenin' in Mod 2, some of their favorite technologies and other good tidbits. Enjoy the show & leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast and/or with a good 'ol email turingpodcast@gmail.com. We just re-started this podcast & would love to know your thoughts! Thanks!
A Q&A about out our two curriculums to help students decide which route is best for them.
Nick stops by to talk about the job hunt and Turing life in general. Hit him up on Slack or Twitter at @nickynonaps.
Nick stops by to talk about the job hunt and Turing life in general. Hit him up on Slack or Twitter at @nickynonaps.
We sat down to chat with Ben Pepper, Turing student and Tesla employee, to recap his Friday talk and follow-up on some of the topics he mentioned.
If you are interested in what students are up to outside of the Turing Curriculum, have a listen to this episode of the Turing Podcast where we check in with the posse leads for Pahlka and Bezos.
If you are interested in what students are up to outside of the Turing Curriculum, have a listen to this episode of the Turing Podcast where we check in with the posse leads for Miyamoto and Armstrong.
Steve Kinney, director of the Front End Engineering program drops in to talk about what it's all about.
Brennan, the creator and host of the Turing podcast records his last episode. Brennan gives his inside look into Turing as well as what he will be up to now.
From going to school for Architecture to writing one of the notoriously hardest projects at Turing, Horace didn't take a super direct path to Turing (as seems to be the case for a lot of our instructors). He tells us about how he fell into this job, and what plans he has (or doesn't have) after climbing out of the basement.
Instructor and Co-Director of Academics, Rachel Warbelow, sits down for a round-table with a couple podcast newbies to talk about her time at Turing, and her story of finding out what coding is (via google).
Lia was too busy doing job stuff last week, and we're OK with that. She came back to talk a little bit more about how the job search is going for students, and what you need to know and do when you get a job offer of your very own.
Executive Director Jeff Casimir updates us on what's going on with Turing as a whole. Finances, enrollment, the new program, and a whole new basement of our own!
Lia is a fresh face here at Turing, and a shining light for job hunters. In this first part of a two-part series Lia talks about her past, what she's doing here at Turing, and how you can help her help you.
Julian and Kimi sit down with Brennan to talk about The Jungle that is module three and some of the struggles and successes involved. They are also pairing up on the final mod 3 project and getting a chance to work with a real company. They'll talk about what NREL is looking for, and how they are trying to deliver a real world solution.
"New" instructor, Nate Allen, talks about what appealed to him and drew him to Turing. He also talks about his real world experience, and calms some of Brennan's fears about sitting in front of a laptop 12 hours a day for the rest of his life.
Brennan Holtzclaw talks to Beth Sebian this week about Gear-Up sessions at Turing. Why would a tech school take an hour out of the week to talk about social justice issues? Beth has taken a bigger role in getting students involved, and gives us her thoughts on the issue.
Brennan Holtzclaw talks to Matt P. and J. Slota about what it's like to repeat a module at Turing. We change locations in the middle of the podcast, and at first you may think it sounds better,but then the background voices kick in, and Horace's furious keyboard skills make a special appearance.
Turing's Executive Director, Jeff Casimir, talks to Brennan Holtzclaw about a complaint recently lodged against the school, and then dives deeper into what he'd like to see as far as social changes in the tech community.
Jorge Tellez talks to Brennan Holtzclaw about the recent change to the tuition guarantee at Turing. Jorge talks about what this might mean for the future of the school, and incoming students.