Turing School Podcast

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/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevekinney/) Website: [https://www.stevekinney.net/](https://www.stevekinney.net/) Frontend Masters: [https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/steve-kinney/](https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/steve-kinney/) Temporal: [https://temporal.io](https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/steve-kinney/) 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