Building Jam | Ep. 16 What it's Like Joining Jam Engineering
Jam's newest engineers, Max & Aidan, share what it's really like to join the eng team.
Meet two of Jam’s newest engineers Max & Aidan! In this episode they discuss what engineering onboarding is like at Jam, plus all the “boring” parts of software development. Internal docs, codebase organization, local environments… As a company totally focused on bug capture; at Jam, these topics are our Jam!
We discuss:
0:00 Intro
00:13 Why we love talking about the “boring” parts of eng (they’re not boring to us!)
2:32 Finding alignment as the codebase and team get bigger
5:06 A sneak peek at a new feature Aidan just built
10:42 Max and Aidan debate how much DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) is too much
12:53 Dani shares the 7 different versions of Jam’s UI before we found PMF!
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