chilen_railsconf_internships.pdf

These are the slides from my talk at RailsConf 2016! Since they are mostly just big words in the middle of the slide, I've published two blog posts with much of their content:

http://tech.omadahealth.com/why-internships/
http://tech.omadahealth.com/how-to-run-an-internship-program/

They are probably more helpful than the slides!

Transcript

1. Lillie Chilen Internships! Good for the Intern, Great for the Team
2. shuh-'leen
3. Who are you?
4. True Stories
5. 1 THE CS HAMMER
6. 2 THE RELATIVE
7. 3 THE CUTTING-EDGE CAT
8. 4 A GOOD ONE
9. LESSONS
10. 1 THE CS HAMMER
11. 2 THE RELATIVE
12. 3 THE CUTTING-EDGE CAT
13. 4 A GOOD ONE
14. AUDITS, ALL
15. Structure Matters
16. A NOTE ON NOMENCLATURE Intern Apprentice Junior Developer
17. HOW
18. MAKE THE BUSINESS CASE
19. HAVE GOALS
20. HOW WE ROLL
21. Pairing Solo Project Pairing
22. TEAM COMPOSITION
23. PAIRING
24. PAIRING ...across experience levels
25. DON'T PAIR?
26. YOU WILL LEARN SAD THINGS
27. SAD THING #1: YOUR CODE IS CONFUSING
28. SAD THING #2: SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT GOOD TEACHERS
29. Teaching is skill! That you can learn!!!!
30. THE SOLO PROJECT
31. PICKING A PROJECT
32. CODE REVIEW
33. MENTORSHIP
34. CONSULTANCY? HMMM.
35. DIVERSITY
36. ROUGH % OF WOMEN WHO ARE: Software Engineers: 16% CS Grads: 18% Bootcamp Grads: 38%
38. HOW TO DIVERSITY
39. RECRUITING AND INTERVIEWING INTERNS
40. CODE CHALLENGE PHONE SCREEN PAIRING INTERVIEW
41. (Side Note: Retention!!)
42. Things I'd Change
43. Audits are helpful! (and maybe only a little painful)
44. FIN
45. @lilliealbert Omada Health find the blog version of this talk (in two parts) at http://tech.omadahealth.com ps: go to Teresa's talk at 3:30pm on Thursday!