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Makers at Rightmove
The Rightmove Tech Podcast brings you news, views, and interviews from the Rightmove tech team.
Episode 2: Interview with Naomi, Stephen and Tay on their journey from Makers Academy to Rightmove.
In total, 9 super talented graduates from the Makers Academy bootcamp joined Rightmove as associate software engineers. With so many we couldn’t speak to all of them, so this time we picked 3 to discuss their careers with us.
And our incredible guests have had very different jobs before becoming software engineers:
In this episode we talk about: the trigger to change careers, their experience on the Makers Academy bootcamp and conquering their first role as Associate Software Engineers at Rightmove.
Chapter I – The motivation for a change
I came across a book that says you cannot change the environment you are in, you cannot change the people you work with. So I started to think about what other things I could do.” – Tay [at 4:10]
Spoiler alert, the book that inspired Tay was “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, by Robert Kiyosaki.
“I open a business to sell cakes online. I built my own website and I found it fascinating!” – Tay [at 4:25]
Chapter II – The experience on the Makers Academy bootcamp
“One word for 16 weeks [to describe the time during the bootcamp], I would say ‘process’ because we’re gonna have ups and downs there, but we need to trust in the process…” – Tay [at 7:56]
“…it was a really intense course, you learned a lot of things in a very condensed period of time.” – Naomi [at 8:36]
“…there was people ready for us to be like: let’s look at your CV, […] let’s practice some like interview questions…” – Naomi [at 9:40]
Chapter III – Conquering and striving at their first role at Rightmove
“…it felt like it was going to be impossible to land one of the roles [at Rightmove], but just put in effort with application and perhaps it was just an unbelievable stroke of luck.” – Stephen [at 13:11]
“So my previous roles needed a great deal of tenacity when trying to solve difficult or complex problems that were seemingly impossible. I found that has proved pretty useful when grappling with coding problems that don’t initially seem to make a whole lot of sense.” – Stephen [at 17:53]
Chapter IV – Rightmove and beyond
…I was never really happy with what I was doing and now I’m here and I’m finally doing the things that I like and enjoy. – Naomi [at 22:01]
I just want to get really good at what I’m doing now. -Naomi [at 22:07]
We hope you enjoy listening to this podcast as much as we enjoyed making it. Watch out for another one coming soon…
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By Rightmove Tech PodcastThe Rightmove Tech Podcast brings you news, views, and interviews from the Rightmove tech team.
Episode 2: Interview with Naomi, Stephen and Tay on their journey from Makers Academy to Rightmove.
In total, 9 super talented graduates from the Makers Academy bootcamp joined Rightmove as associate software engineers. With so many we couldn’t speak to all of them, so this time we picked 3 to discuss their careers with us.
And our incredible guests have had very different jobs before becoming software engineers:
In this episode we talk about: the trigger to change careers, their experience on the Makers Academy bootcamp and conquering their first role as Associate Software Engineers at Rightmove.
Chapter I – The motivation for a change
I came across a book that says you cannot change the environment you are in, you cannot change the people you work with. So I started to think about what other things I could do.” – Tay [at 4:10]
Spoiler alert, the book that inspired Tay was “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, by Robert Kiyosaki.
“I open a business to sell cakes online. I built my own website and I found it fascinating!” – Tay [at 4:25]
Chapter II – The experience on the Makers Academy bootcamp
“One word for 16 weeks [to describe the time during the bootcamp], I would say ‘process’ because we’re gonna have ups and downs there, but we need to trust in the process…” – Tay [at 7:56]
“…it was a really intense course, you learned a lot of things in a very condensed period of time.” – Naomi [at 8:36]
“…there was people ready for us to be like: let’s look at your CV, […] let’s practice some like interview questions…” – Naomi [at 9:40]
Chapter III – Conquering and striving at their first role at Rightmove
“…it felt like it was going to be impossible to land one of the roles [at Rightmove], but just put in effort with application and perhaps it was just an unbelievable stroke of luck.” – Stephen [at 13:11]
“So my previous roles needed a great deal of tenacity when trying to solve difficult or complex problems that were seemingly impossible. I found that has proved pretty useful when grappling with coding problems that don’t initially seem to make a whole lot of sense.” – Stephen [at 17:53]
Chapter IV – Rightmove and beyond
…I was never really happy with what I was doing and now I’m here and I’m finally doing the things that I like and enjoy. – Naomi [at 22:01]
I just want to get really good at what I’m doing now. -Naomi [at 22:07]
We hope you enjoy listening to this podcast as much as we enjoyed making it. Watch out for another one coming soon…
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