What is your greatest strength and how do you know?
How do you work best?
What is your greatest area of improvement?
How do you hope to maximize your strengths for your new career in software development?
How might knowing about your strengths and working preferences benefit you as a software developer?
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| * What is your greatest strength and how do you know? | |
| My greatest strength is my ability to approach problems with a creative and optimistic mindset. Throughout the many chapters of my life, there have always been obstacles that I have had to overcome. Early on my ability to find meaning and lessons while facing problems have allowed me to e |
| Gear Up - Empathy | |
| * What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you? | |
| Empathy is probably one of the most developed aspects of my social consciousness. Witnessing different cultures while backpacking through different countries has expanded my understanding of how the world works beyond my own personal experience, and I strive to implement that awareness into all of my interactions. Knowing that I have one valid subjective experience and truth while simultaneously navigating a world where every single other person has their own equally valid subjective truth has allowed me to see things from perspectives vastly different than my own. Looking at every single person as a mirror has allowed me to expand my personal understanding of the world as well as where and how I fit into a much larger picture than my one life can offer. | |
| * How does empathy help you build better software? | |
| Ultimately I feel like the main reason behind building software is to enhance and improve convenience, effic |
<p> Empathy is probably one of the most developed aspects of my social consciousness. Witnessing different cultures while backpacking through different countries has expanded my understanding of how the world works beyond my own personal experience, and I strive to implement that awareness into all of my interactions. Knowing that I have one valid subjective experience and truth while simultaneously navigating a world where every single other person has their own equally valid subjective truth has allowed me to see things from perspectives vastly different than my own. Looking at every single person as a mirror has allowed me to expand my personal understanding of the world as well as where and how I fit into a much larger picture than my one life can offer. </p>
How does empathy help you build better software?
Karl Nielsen
Comp Recreations
[Login Form Comp] . https://codepen.io/Karlfunhouse/pen/QWWRqLw [Greeting App Comp] . https://codepen.io/Karlfunhouse/pen/XWWLmMx?editors=1100
JavaScript DOM Challenges
One teammate should copy and paste the raw markdown into a gist of your own.
Schedule: communicate at noon what our after school workflow will be. No Friday after 4pm for Kyle Tuesday & Thursday & Saturday is Honey Openings for Karl - will prioritize getting work done before checking out. Stay in communication about schedule/progress.
https://gitmoji.carloscuesta.me/ - Commit Styling Emojis PR Template
DTR: Define the Relationship One teammate should copy and paste the raw markdown into a gist of your own.
Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship: What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches? Lane - pair programming bounce things of each other Karl - pair programming learning concepts that maybe aren't fully grasped but having to physically type the code is helpful.
Karl Nielsen
Employees: https://github.com/Karlfunhouse/employees
Will’s Lunchbox: https://github.com/Karlfunhouse/wills-lunchbox
Author & Book: https://github.com/Karlfunhouse/Author-Book
Objects-Mild: https://repl.it/@karlfunhouse/Objects-Mild
Coffee Meeting Questions
What was your background before you decided to become a developer and how do you feel that has impacted your current career?
What was your biggest struggle in learning how to code? How did you overcome those obstacles and roadblocks and what did you learn in the process?
What is some advice or insight you have now that you wish someone had given you when you: first started coding, during your job hunt, during the first 3-6-12 months of your first job?
What do you love most about what you do?
PD: Story Telling
After graduating college with a degree in English, I found myself wondering what exactly it was I wanted to do with my life. I spent my summers in college doing a door to door sales internship in which I was pretty successful and through which I gained a vast number of applicable real world marketable skills in the field of sales. It made the most sense to capitalize on my skill set and take the next step into corporate sales. I applied and was hired by a New York startup to be an outside sales rep for the Portland Metro area in Oregon. I was full of excitement for what the future held, especially now that I had a 6 figure salary to manifest all of my dreams.
The only problem was I had zero passion for the product I was selling, and the day to day activities mostly consisted of driving to different doctor’s offices and waiting in waiting rooms, trying to see doctors that had no interest in speaking with me. It wasn’t really the glitz and glam that I had been anticipating for my first