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The Self Taught Developer with Hamish Macpherson

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The Self Taught Developer

It's a term we hear more often these days - "I'm self taught!". What seemed like a rarity years ago has been increasingly more common in our industry, so today we sat down with our engineer on staff who taught himself programming (one of 11 at Buffer!) - Hamish Macpherson!

Hamish is a senior engineer who works primarily on the front-end of Buffer. In this episode, we cover:

  • His journey to learning programming
  • How early jobs and projects helped him level up quickly
  • Resources and communities to learn from
  • Dealing with an initial rejection from Buffer when applying the first time, and how he took feedback in and improved to land the job the second time
  • ...and more!


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