This month we had our first interview in our Made Tech team interview series with our Lead Engineer Charlene Hunter to better understand her role and to feature the great work she has been doing.
Life at Made Tech
The world beyond the Academy ?
Several engineers, including myself, joined Made Tech via the Academy. It’s a 12-week programme that the company offers to teach passionate learners the best software engineering practices in the industry.
Academy Week One: Mind Blown
It’s the end of our first week in the latest Made Tech Academy cohort. My mind has been truly blown.
How do we solve a problem like lack of diversity?
Just over a year ago, I wrote about the lack of diversity at Made Tech and how it was something we needed to work on as a business. We’d recognised our ‘ignorance’ had led to inactivity in identifying problem areas, but once we’d accepted our failures, we had to stop being passive bystanders and actually take active steps to address them.
Privilege Bingo
Intersectionality, BAME, cis, anonymous hiring, inclusion. These words are likely not on your ticket if you are playing privilege bingo. Like a canary in a coal mine, a lack of understanding of these concepts will likely mean your daily actions reinforce systemic discrimination.
Being an Introvert in an Agile working environment
Agile working environments often include open plan offices, close-knit teams and lots of impromptu discussions. Encouraging collaboration both between developers and with other business people is a great way to aid producing valuable software.
Lessons from our Academy: How to teach a new programming language
In this blog post, I’d like to share some advice that I’ve learnt from the Made Tech Academy that might help you teach a new programming language as part of an onboarding process.
An inside perspective of the Made Tech Academy
At the time of writing this, I’m in the latter half of the Made Tech academy process, so I figured I would write about the experience so far and why the scheme is invaluable for people who have some technical skills but are trying to get started within the tech industry.
Introducing: The Made Tech Academy
We’re excited to announce the launch of a brand new initiative for our company: The Made Tech Academy.
