Story Points: Stories about Software Engineering

The crew of story points discusses ChatGPT (Open AI), Lensa, and Elon Musk code reviews. 

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A lot has happened since our last episode but we are back to discuss all the twitter news and tech layoffs in the last few months!

In the final episode of this round of How I Became, we talk with a member of the podcast panel, George! We talk about his time working at Apple as a Genius or technician, how he got started in the tech industry, and learn about his journey to becoming a Frontend Engineer. Please give our other episodes a listen and give us a rating, review, like, subscribe, and or follow!

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Episode 1 of our series How I became. Joe brings back our good friend Jonathan to talk about how he became a Systems Integration Engineer at NBC. Hear Jonathan's story of how he went from unboxing product at the Apple Store and learning Graphic Design to working with Fiber cables and building sets for a broadcasting company. He is part of a team at NBC where he builds the studios for their broadcasting. He has worked on big sets like The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to the Olympics.

With WFH becoming the norm, burn out has been a large discussion as of late. 2 years into WFH culture and some people are experiencing burn out. but why? Burn out was well around before the pandemic and WFH being a norm. With the rise of communication tools and social media, you are hearing a lot more people speaking their mind.

We as engineers decided we should discuss this topic and how it has effected us without even knowing! From poor decision making to just mindlessly staring at the wall. We have experienced many different types of burn out. Through out the years, we figured out ways to over come it. We are not just talking about taking vacation, because let's be honest going on vacation can be even more stressful for some (dare I say a type of burn out scared to take vacation). Sit back and enjoy. We hope this topic resonates with all of you!

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Articles we follow: https://www.henryford.com/blog/2021/10/burned-out-or-stressed

In today's episode, we talk about imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the feeling you're abilities aren't good enough. In tech, it is a very fast paced field and you can feel like you are always falling behind. We talk about what it's like to deal with imposter syndrome, how to overcome it, and how it has changed as we progressed in our careers.

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We are LIVE. On the 10th episode, we close out the second sprint of episodes with a banger VIDEO. We recap the last 4 episodes. Tech Culture, APIs, Frontend/UI/UX, Backend and Infrastructure. We discuss the last tech news... Twitter APIs in the Johnny Depp Amber Heard case, Big Tech Companies doing layoffs, Tech Company offers and what it really means to make 500k in a tech company.

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We are taking a small break from our series of episodes about application development to discuss culture at tech companies. 

Many of you out there have seen or heard about tech companies providing more tangible perks like ping-pong table, free lunch, WFH (before COVID), unlimited coffee, craft beers, etc. We want to shine the light more on the intangible things that we feel us at tech companies have it best. We discuss about the work environment, transparency, career growth, amount of hours worked, and managing up. 

We really hope you enjoy the episode. Please subscribe so you do not miss any future episodes and give some of our past episodes a listen. We are knew to podcasting so we are experimenting. To give us some feedback or if you have a topic you'd like us to talk about, you can email us at storypointsdev@gmail.com.

Today we kick off our next “sprint” or series of episodes with the topic of WFH. Working from home has became a normal for many people but it’s been a perk for many in the tech industry. We talk about differences of work habits between those in the tech and non tech. We talk about the feeling of isolation of working from all the time. The differences between remote work and WFH. 

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This week we take a look back at our last "series" of getting started episodes or better known as a retro! We are joined by our good friend Greg Meade. He asks us questions that some of you may have had while listening to our first few episodes (getting started as a software engineer, interviewing, and side projects).

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Tech Side Projects are like Pokemon....

In today's episode, we talk about side projects. Side Projects are a great way to learn something new. They aren't just for new engineers trying to showcase their skills but for the senior engineer looking into a new piece of technology for work. 

We take a walk down memory lane and talk about the projects we have done and where as a new engineer how you can come up with your own project.

Buzzwords: Git, Repository, Framework, GitHub, Version Control

For this very first episode of the Story Points podcast, we (Roger King, Joseph Micceri, and George Markantonis) are a light hearted group of software engineers talking about different stories in our careers. We start with talking about how we are navigating working from home long term, how we got started in this booming field of software engineering,  and discuss the many ways people can break into the industry.

Buzzwords: Story Points, Retros, Sprints, Full-Stack, DevOps, Java, Tickets