Using Reflection

Show Notes Topics: Career Advancement, Code Schools, Computer Science, Education, Internships, Interviewing/Interview Questions, Onboarding, Personal Branding, Recruiting, Recursion, Software Engineering, Web Development Companies and Organizations Thumbtack Braintree Bucknell University Free Code Camp Introduction If you are thinking of going into a career in software engineering in the late 2010s, you have to navigate an abundance of choices and answer a lot of questions. Traditional Computer Science education or code school? Big company, medium or small? Startup on a cloud stack or mature company on an enterprise stack? Should you favor employers based on salary, learning opportunity, perceived caliber of colleagues, or fast growth? How to build up a portfolio? Taylor Milliman has just gone through this process and started his career. In this special two-part episode, we talk to Taylor first just before he starts at Thumbtack as a software engineer, and then get an update from him six months