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35: Capstone Checkin: Sam Glass
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"I feel a sense of loyalty and pride"
I caught up with Sam at the end of his Senior Fellowship to reflect on the entirety of the past 6 months of his time at Fullstack Academy. Sam never fails to deliver the best turns of phrase and I can't do any justice if I summarized his feelings, but they are deep. If you hear some silence in the recording, that's not a mistake, it was just that difficult to put this experience into words. We also turn the tables a bit and Sam interviews me about... interviewing!
See Sam's past Checkins here.
The consequences of transitioning from Student to Teacher
What qualities do Fellows need to have?
Patience. It's hard to resist solving problems for people or overhelping people.
What training do you get on teaching? Yes - our instructors role play and the Fellows have to figure out how to teach them.
Tips for fighting "As soon as you left, I forgot everything": Be OK with uncomfortable silences. Force the student to make an attempt.
Live coding while you teach is the ultimate interview prep. Being able to talk while coding.
The Beautiful Liminal period between School and Work.
The fellowship is not repetitive - you don't have to attend the lectures again. The main demand on your time is the workshops.
What's teaching REACTO (algo problems) like? Scary. Priority queue optimized approach was something we didn't cover.
LEARN HEAPS. HEAPS ARE GOOD FOR YOU.
Personal Projects?
React Native knowledge base
Making a Study Calendar, Palendar - Material UI, Enzyme testing, SVG icons.
People care about cute animals
What you learn from building your own apps
Building a Portfolio? Conflicting advice from people on the importance of a porfolio
The Job Hunt
Network aggressively (the alumni network) vs Cold applying (3% success rate)
Reflecting on Fullstack's impact
Transitioning from a career in publishing where everything is subjective
Strangely feeling loyalty to Fullstack Academy more than with college
Speaking to future Sam: Working in a place a lot like Fullstack where mutual growth is prized, with space to explore network engineering.
Digressing about TCP/IP vs GraphQL :)
Questions about the Interviewing process
CSS was a surprise - it's a function of what job you want. UI jobs will have CSS involved, backend jobs won't
What to do when unexpected things happen in an interview?
Algorithms: Go for breadth rather than depth
Don't spend more time on your Capstone
Teach your interviewer if you can
Links:
- Check out Sam's Capstone Coordin-EAT on Github and Youtube
- Palendar on Github
- Sam on Github and Linkedin
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