voxxed days thesaloniki 2016 - the long road
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THE LONG ROAD@sandromancus
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SACRIFICE
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JOBS ARE STEPS IN OUR CAREER
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BUILDING A CAREER IS HARD
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NOT ALWAYS WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING
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DESIGNING OUR CAREER
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DIFFERENT ROADS
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COMPANY CAREER CAN BE DANGEROUS
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ROADS AND MILESTONES
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EACH JOB IS AN INVESTMENTWHAT RETURN ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
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WHEN TO LEAVE A JOB?
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WHAT SHOULD WE LOOK FOR?
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NEW OLD JOB
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RECRUITMENT PROCESSHOW MUCH CAN WE LEARN FROM THE HIRING COMPANY?
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JOB SPECS
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JOB SPEC - 01
Java Developer (J2SE or J2EE) with SQL experience required for a permanent role with a growing and extremely successful Financial Software organisation.
The ideal candidate for this Java development role must possess a passion for technology and a desire to have exposure to, and learn more about the Financial Services arena.
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 plus benefits and bonus
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JOB SPEC - 01
Java Developer (J2SE or J2EE) with SQL experience required for a permanent role with a growing and extremely successful Financial Software organisation.
The ideal candidate for this Java development role must possess a passion for technology and a desire to have exposure to, and learn more about the Financial Services arena.
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 plus benefits and bonus
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JOB SPEC - 01
Skills and experience required
Applicants must have strong core Java skills gained in a commercial environment along with the following technical skills and experience:
• Minimum 2:1 degree in Computer Science/ software engineering• 5+ years intensive Java Development (J2SE or J2EE)• 3+ years intensive SQL (some knowledge of SQL Server and
Oracle)• Experience with web technologies (ideally HTML 5, CSS 3,
jQuery, Spring MVC)• Strong OO analysis and design experience• Experience of the full software development lifecycle (SDLC)• Ability to clearly communicate with peers, business analysts
and subject matter experts
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JOB SPEC - 01
The following skills would be beneficial but not essential:
• Development on high performance distributed systems (in java)• Experience with both real time and batch systems• Experience with distributed technologies such as Oracle Coherence• Experience with Spring , Hibernate• Experience in an agile environment (including TDD, JUnit, etc.)
The java developer role will involve close interaction with the Systems Architect, Java Team Leaders and other members of the development team and will demand a high level of design and coding to implement and deliver enhancements.
There will be ample opportunities for the successful java candidate to quickly expand on their banking and funds management experience, with plenty of business exposure.
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[IDEAL CANDIDATE] … MUST POSSESS A PASSION FOR TECHNOLOGY
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A DIFFERENT JOB SPEC
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JOB SPEC - 02
We are looking for smart, self-motivated software developers to join our truly exceptional development team. Good working TDD experience is essential for this role.
About you
• You care about software; you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions rather than just waffly personal statements on your CV.
• You have an eye for software design and can talk eloquently on a range of topics due to your experiences and also from reading and experimentation.
• For you it’s more than a job.
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JOB SPEC - 02
The role
Our teams are cross-functional, self-organising and highly autonomous. No architects, project managers or middle management, you’ll be working directly with our Product Managers and stakeholders in a highly collaborative manner. This approach requires a huge amount of teamwork and maturity and is not right for everyone, but we believe it’s the best way to create great software.
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JOB SPEC - 02
Among other things, Pair Programming, TDD/BDD, Refactoring, and Continuous Delivery are deeply embedded and we’re constantly striving to improve the way we work. We know typing is not the bottleneck, so among other things:
• Have around two sessions a week spending time doing things like Katas, Dojos and discussing practices and technologies.
• Each get up to two days “innovation time” a month we can use to play with new toys or product ideas.
• Regularly attend conferences and community events, both as participants and contributors (we’ve recently ran sessions at QCon, SCUK and SPA).
• However, we’re not perfect and not afraid to say so. We recognise we have many problems which need solving and a long way to go on our journey of continuous improvement.
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JOB SPEC - 02Technologies we use
Most of our stack is C#/.Net but we’re using and investigating many other languages and technologies (e.g. Ruby, server side JavaScript, C++, Python). We’d be interested in candidates from any background as long as you have a keen understanding of Object Oriented languages. Here’s a (not exclusive) list of technologies we currently use:
• C#, Ruby, JavaScript• ASP.Net MVC, OpenRasta, Nancy, ServiceStack, Nhibernate, Windsor,
StructureMap, NUnit, RhinoMocks, ReSharper, NDepend• Cucumber, Rails, RSpec, Rake, Capybara, Selenium, Watir• REST, Oauth• MS SQL, ElasticSearch, Solr• Mono, Windows, IIS, Nginx• RabbitMQ• Git, TeamCity
We’re also very keen on open source. We contribute to some of the technologies listed above as well as maintaining our own forks (+ publishing other things we’d like to share) on our GitHub account
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WE HAVE THE BEST PEOPLE
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RECRUITMENT PROCESS PHASES
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CODE SUBMISSION
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PAIR PROGRAMMING
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BAD SIGNS DURING RECRUITMENT
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MORE BAD SIGNS
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GREAT TEAMS
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HOW TO FIND GREAT COMPANIES?
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ARE YOU ON THE TOP OF YOUR GAME?
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SUCCESSFUL CAREERS DON’T COME EASY
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A TOUGH START
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MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
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THE ”BIG” DREAM
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YOU CAN NOT ALWAYS CHANGE PEOPLE AROUND YOU, BUT YOU CAN CHANGE THE PEOPLE YOU CHOOSE TO BE AROUND.
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PLANNING FOR A SUCCESSFUL CAREER.
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BUT WHAT IF WE DON’T KNOW WHERE TO GO?
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FAVOUR LEARNING OVER MONEY
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FOCUS ON DIVERSE EXPERIENCEGENERALISING SPECIALIST
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MASTER OF NONE
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OWN YOUR CAREER
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ONE LIFE
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THE LONG ROAD
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DESIGN YOUR CAREER
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THANK YOU@sandromancuso