Lessons Learned Recruiting and Managing Junior Developers for 10 Years

🎙 About the episode

Jason has been recruiting and supporting Junior Developers for more than a decade! He joins us to share his inspiring story breaking into tech after sustaining a head injury, and what he’s learned about how to find success as a Junior without a degree along the way.

🔗 Connect with Jason

• 👨🏻‍💼 LinkedIn
• 🌐 Website
• 👩‍🚀 GitHub
• 🐦 Twitter

⏰ Timestamps

• Introduction (0:00)
• How a head injury at 16 influenced Jason’s career path (01:27)
• Interns vs. juniors (05:07)
• Job titles matter, but not for the reasons you might think (08:04)
• Are there more juniors than junior jobs? (10:35)
• Why recruiters sometimes get it wrong and what that means for you, the candidate (11:38)
• The job description is not a list of hard requirements (15:44)
• How to improve your self-awareness (19:05)
• Coding vs. programming and why it matters (22:04)
• Justin’s favourite question to ask during interviews: What games do you play? (23:40)
• Are you born or made a programmer? (24:56)
• Tech is vast and has many career paths to offer (27:26)

🧰 Resources mentioned

• Tell Alex from Scrimba @bookercodes what you thought of the episode
• Read Jason’s fantastic advice on dev.to

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