How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
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How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
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Re: How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
#2Thanks for sharing.
In regards to the BBC however, and on behalf of my SO, I am curious how to get your foot in the door as a script writer (or as something related to this). Does anyone have any insights/tips/contacts that they would give to someone interested in becoming a script writer for the BBC?
Re: How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
#3Thanks for sharing. In regards to the BBC however, and on behalf of my SO, I am curious how to get your foot in the door as a script writer (or as something related to this). Does anyone have any insights/tips/contacts that they would give to someone interested in becoming a script writer for the BBC?
Re: How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
#4Isn't the BBC a company where the only senior positions are as a contractor, charging 3 times the amount of their permanent counterpart for much less hassle?
I am not sure if the author is trying to write a nice PR piece or is so inexperienced that he believes in all this corporate bullshit he's repeating. ^^
Re: How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
#5Isn't the BBC a company where the only senior positions are as a contractor, charging 3 times the amount of their permanent counterpart for much less hassle? I am not sure if the author is trying to write a nice PR piece or is so inexperienced that he believes in all this corporate bullshit he's repeating. ^^
>Isn't the BBC a company where the only senior positions are as a contractor, charging 3 times the amount of their permanent counterpart for much less hassle?
Not really, no.
Re: How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
#6Isn't the BBC a company where the only senior positions are as a contractor, charging 3 times the amount of their permanent counterpart for much less hassle? I am not sure if the author is trying to write a nice PR piece or is so inexperienced that he believes in all this corporate bullshit he's repeating. ^^
I'm not the author, but I recently joined the BBC as a software engineer and haven't found all that many contractors at all, the ones I have are in regular non-senior positions.
It may be the case for 'talent' and management of TV projects (for example), but in the tech departments - your assertion, in my experience seems to be far from true.
Re: How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
#7Going from Jr to Sr in an organization is "easy/ier." Making the same progress as a freelancer/contractor is more difficult.
Re: How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
#8"I wanted to make sure that my first job post-university would be somewhere where I would feel happy and work not on my own, but with an agile team ..."
It's interesting that any young developer would regard the micromanagement that comes with agile as a plus.
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#9"I wanted to make sure that my first job post-university would be somewhere where I would feel happy and work not on my own, but with an agile team ..." It's interesting that any young developer would regard the micromanagement that comes with agile as a plus.
Do they just mean agile in the sense of "adaptable and fast-moving"?
Also, for some (many) junior anythings some micromanagement is a good thing, especially for a college grad with little "real world" experience.
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#10"I wanted to make sure that my first job post-university would be somewhere where I would feel happy and work not on my own, but with an agile team ..." It's interesting that any young developer would regard the micromanagement that comes with agile as a plus.
> micromanagement that comes with agile
It's a sad day when the ideas behind the agile movement have fully become the Agile System (tm) in engineer consciousness. The word used to denote a style of working, not characterised by micromanagement or by a Scrum Master (tm, again) telling people what to do, but ironically by leaving behind dogma for a loose collection of principles that worked effectively for the team and the problem at hand. The word has been lost, though. Using the word 'agile' now evokes more derision than enthusiasm or excitement.