Story Points: Stories about Software Engineering

By Roger King, Joseph Micceri, George Markantonis, Greg Meade

Technology

What's Story Points: Stories about Software Engineering about?

Here at Story Points, we share personal anecdotes from within the tech industry and help break it down for those who are not, with some inevitable silliness in between. So whether you’re looking to get into the field, already in the field, or just a tad curious about it, look no further. You can email us at [email protected] Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/story-points-engineering/support

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EPISODE 17 - ELON MUSK IS AI

12.12.2022

The crew of story points discusses ChatGPT (Open AI), Lensa, and Elon Musk code reviews. Email us at [email protected] Follow all our socials: story_points @instagram and @twitter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/story-points-engineering/support

Story Points: Stories about Software Engineering episodes:

12.12.2022 EPISODE 17 - ELON MUSK IS AI The crew of story points discusses ChatGPT (Open AI), Lensa, and Elon Musk code reviews. Email us at [email protected] Follow all our socials: story_points @instagram and @twitter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/story-points-engineering/support
11.27.2022 We are back - Twitter, Tech Layoffs, Elon Musk, Buzzword Unicorn A lot has happened since our last episode but we are back to discuss all the twitter news and tech layoffs in the last few months! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/story-points-engineering/support
08.21.2022 From Apple Store Genius to a Frontend Engineer at Google (Almost) w/ George Markantonis In the final episode of this round of How I Became, we talk with a member of the podcast panel, George! We talk about his time working at Apple as a Genius or technician, how he got started in the ...
07.31.2022 From the classroom to tech startup [How I became] w/ Melanie It all started with music videos, Melanie pursues her passion of being a well rounded video producer. Starting her professional career as grade school teacher, Melanie quickly realized her passion was not in sitting behind a desk grading papers but ...
07.17.2022 How I became a Systems Integration Engineer w/ Jonathan Episode 1 of our series How I became. Joe brings back our good friend Jonathan to talk about how he became a Systems Integration Engineer at NBC. Hear Jonathan's story of how he went from unboxing product at the Apple ...
07.16.2022 How I became series trailer How I became is a series of episodes where the crew of the story points podcast interview various people from different backgrounds and talk about... How they became. Every one comes from different backgrounds of work. Sometimes things don't go ...
07.03.2022 Episode 13 - BURNING OUT. Don't be a burn out. How to over come it. How to prevent it. With WFH becoming the norm, burn out has been a large discussion as of late. 2 years into WFH culture and some people are experiencing burn out. but why? Burn out was well around before the pandemic and WFH being ...
06.19.2022 Episode 12 - quit doubting yourself In today's episode, we talk about imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the feeling you're abilities aren't good enough. In tech, it is a very fast paced field and you can feel like you are always falling behind. We talk about ...
06.06.2022 Episode 11 - Engineering Mentorship Today we are back with another great episode to discuss mentorship! We had this topic in the list but decided to bump it up to answer our #1 fan's question about our experience with mentors. We discuss the good, the ...
05.26.2022 EPISODE 10 RETRO: The Social Media Expert called by Amber Heard's team listens to STORY POINTS We are LIVE. On the 10th episode, we close out the second sprint of episodes with a banger VIDEO. We recap the last 4 episodes. Tech Culture, APIs, Frontend/UI/UX, Backend and Infrastructure. We discuss the last tech news... Twitter APIs ...
05.09.2022 Episode 9 - The engineer that runs your application Continuing where we left off in the application stack: Backend Services and Infrastructure. We thought to combine the two because modern day applications are built using a lot of Cloud Technologies. YEP! You heard it THE CLOUD. We talk about ...
04.25.2022 Episode 8: Tech Culture We are taking a small break from our series of episodes about application development to discuss culture at tech companies. Many of you out there have seen or heard about tech companies providing more tangible perks like ping-pong table, free ...
04.11.2022 Episode 7 - Frontend Happy Hour Engineering Frontend Engineering is part of software engineering that many of you interact with! When you think of instagram, you think of scrolling through your newsfeed. Frontend Engineering is a combination of building those screens, determining how people interact with application ...
03.28.2022 Episode 6 - Foundation of software, APIs In today's episode, we take a slight turn from talking about the cultural aspects of tech companies and get a little more technical. We scratch the surface on a core concept in programming called APIs. We discuss what it is, ...
03.14.2022 Episode 5 - WFH Today we kick off our next “sprint” or series of episodes with the topic of WFH. Working from home has became a normal for many people but it’s been a perk for many in the tech industry. We talk about ...
02.27.2022 0.0.4 - Our First Retro with Greg Meade This week we take a look back at our last "series" of getting started episodes or better known as a retro! We are joined by our good friend Greg Meade. He asks us questions that some of you may have ...
02.13.2022 0.0.3 - Tips on Side Projects Tech Side Projects are like Pokemon.... In today's episode, we talk about side projects. Side Projects are a great way to learn something new. They aren't just for new engineers trying to showcase their skills but for the senior engineer ...
02.03.2022 0.0.2 - Cracking the software engineer interview In today's episode we discuss just what it takes to pass the software engineering interview. We share the whole process from end to end and share a view stories on our experiences interviewing. Links: LeetCode Cracking the Coding interview book ...
01.29.2022 0.0.1 - Getting Started For this very first episode of the Story Points podcast, we (Roger King, Joseph Micceri, and George Markantonis) are a light hearted group of software engineers talking about different stories in our careers. We start with talking about how we ...