190 RR Apprenticeship with Joseph Mastey and Jill Lynch of Enova

About this Episode

2:55 - Introducing Joseph Mastey and Jill Lynch

• Enova

3:20 - The origins of Enova’s apprenticeship program

6:20 - Creating and teaching the curriculum

• Rails Guide to Active Support
• Code School

11:05 - Realities of implementing an apprenticeship program

15:30 - Jill’s experience

21:10 - Feedback processes

22:50 - Advice for setting up an apprenticeship program

24:20 - Ideal candidates and mentors

• Women Who Code
• Code2040
• Girl Develop It

28:05 - Apprenticeship and new hire diversity

28:45 - Experimenting with bias, communication, and engagement

33:20 - Do trainees take too much time away from regular employees?

37:05 - Teaching the codebase

39:50 - Firing apprentices

42:05 - Advantages of working at a lucrative company

45:45 - Learning outside the program

• Edx
• Coursera

47:40 - Breaking into the industry

• Email panel@rubyrouges.com with your experiences

58:10 - Who decides the circle?

Picks:

Ruby Tapas (Avdi)

Nozbe (Avdi)

Postach.io (Avdi)

Neo4j (Caroline)

Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows (Caroline)

DeskTime (Charles)

“Codes of Conduct 101 + FAQ” post by Ashe Dryden (Joe)

The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak (Joe)

Practical Object-Oriented Design by Sandi Metz (Jill)

Edx CS50 Class (Jill)