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Like most things related to remote work, you just have to be more formal in the the approach. Our team has successfully developed several cohorts of college hir

Like most things related to remote work, you just have to be more formal in the the approach. Our team has successfully developed several cohorts of college hires remotely. You have to give them consistent (daily, for hours) access to mentoring/senior resources via scheduled time, keep design or other higher level meetings public and make sure the juniors know they are invited to attend, and make clear to the junior devs that they are a priority so they can feel free to ping anyone on the team whenever they need help, plus make clear to the rest of the team that helping the junior devs is a priority. Keeping an eye in the jrs work item completion rate and eliciting if there is a problem when it slows down also helps

polishdude20 7y ago
Where do you work and are you hiring?
- topkai22 7y ago
  Microsoft, in consulting services, yes. https://careers.microsoft.com/students/us/en/microsoft-aspire-experience https://careers.microsoft.com/students/us/en/microsoft-aspir... https://careers.microsoft.com/students/us/en/job/795772/Full-Time-Opportunities-for-Students-or-Recent-Graduates-Technical-Consulting-Client-Success-2021-Start-Dates https://careers.microsoft.com/students/us/en/job/795772/Full... Unfortunately it looks like we are back to requiring college hires to colocate for a year, even if their day to day teams are remote/distribute. Industry hires can live anywhere. Travel can be up to 100% depending on the project (although not right now.) Microsoft is a huge company and not all (or even most) teams are as good at remote work as my team is, but the company as a whole is serious about the inclusive behaviors the underly my teams culture
  - polishdude20 7y ago
    What about jobs for non students who are self taught and working in another industry but have experience with JavaScript?
    - topkai22 7y ago
      There are large number of self taught people in my area of the company (services). Experience in another industry is plus- we are the people who directly help customers build on top of Microsoft’s products. The biggest thing we (my division) look for in industry hires is an ability to interact with customers and master new skills quickly. On the technical angle, we do want to see knowledge beyond just on area of development (full-stack to cloud, o365 integration, sys admin experience, analytics work, etc...). Direct knowledge of the MS stack helps, but we hire plenty of people who know AWS and them teach them Azure (for example). In terms of setting yourself up to get hired, I recommend trying to start a product/business. I’ve done three side companies/projects over the years, all done on nights and weekends, all of which never really did anything. I wasn’t very committed to them, they didn’t take up THAT much time, never really cost money (never had payroll, biggest expenses was a small factory order of light up dog collars at one), and I expected them to fail, but I learned a ton of new stuff to make the MVP and business systems happen.

polishdude20 7y ago

Where do you work and are you hiring?

topkai22 7y ago
Microsoft, in consulting services, yes. https://careers.microsoft.com/students/us/en/microsoft-aspire-experience https://careers.microsoft.com/students/us/en/microsoft-aspir... https://careers.microsoft.com/students/us/en/job/795772/Full-Time-Opportunities-for-Students-or-Recent-Graduates-Technical-Consulting-Client-Success-2021-Start-Dates https://careers.microsoft.com/students/us/en/job/795772/Full... Unfortunately it looks like we are back to requiring college hires to colocate for a year, even if their day to day teams are remote/distribute. Industry hires can live anywhere. Travel can be up to 100% depending on the project (although not right now.) Microsoft is a huge company and not all (or even most) teams are as good at remote work as my team is, but the company as a whole is serious about the inclusive behaviors the underly my teams culture
- polishdude20 7y ago
  What about jobs for non students who are self taught and working in another industry but have experience with JavaScript?
  - topkai22 7y ago
    There are large number of self taught people in my area of the company (services). Experience in another industry is plus- we are the people who directly help customers build on top of Microsoft’s products. The biggest thing we (my division) look for in industry hires is an ability to interact with customers and master new skills quickly. On the technical angle, we do want to see knowledge beyond just on area of development (full-stack to cloud, o365 integration, sys admin experience, analytics work, etc...). Direct knowledge of the MS stack helps, but we hire plenty of people who know AWS and them teach them Azure (for example). In terms of setting yourself up to get hired, I recommend trying to start a product/business. I’ve done three side companies/projects over the years, all done on nights and weekends, all of which never really did anything. I wasn’t very committed to them, they didn’t take up THAT much time, never really cost money (never had payroll, biggest expenses was a small factory order of light up dog collars at one), and I expected them to fail, but I learned a ton of new stuff to make the MVP and business systems happen.