Mastering Corporate Culture for New Developers

🎙 About the episode

Ready for your first dev job? Today on the podcast, you'll learn how companies work and how teams stay efficient. How does a typical team operate? Who do you report to? How do you know if you're the right culture fit? Why should you know what you need from your team? And why do job postings sometimes... not make sense?

We have compiled the best, most actionable advice to help you understand a corporate environment. You'll hear from engineering manager and career coach Tiffany Jachhja, founder of Technical Integrity Dave Mayer, opera singer turned developer and developer coach Ana McDougal, and engineering manager Jason C McDonald.

📻 Listen to the full interviews

• Understanding Corporate Hierarchy (and Perfecting Your Resume), With Tiffany Jachja
• Advice from a Junior Developer Career Coach, with Anna McDougal
• What Are Company Values… and Why You Should Know Your Own, with Dave Mayer
• Lessons Learned Recruiting and Managing Junior Developers for 10 Years, with Jason C. McDonald

🔗 Connect with everybody

• Tiffany: 👩🏻‍💼 Linkedin, 📹 Twitch, 🐦 Twitter, 🌐  Website
• Anna: 👨🏻‍💼 LinkedIn, 🌐 Website, 👩‍🚀 GitHub, 🐦 Twitter, 📹 YouTube
• Dave: 🐦 Twitter, 🌐  Website, 👨🏻‍💼 LinkedIn
• Jason: 👨🏻‍💼 LinkedIn, 🌐 Website, 👩‍🚀 GitHub, 🐦 Twitter, 📖 Dead Simple Python - Idiomatic Python for the Impatient Programmer

🧰 Resources Mentioned

• Learning in public!
• How to Avoid Burnout, Improve Your Confidence and Keep Coding Fun, with Scrimba Student Sylvia

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