Turing School Podcast

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.