What does a backend developer do? How does one work in a web consulting company? In order to bring closer the world of technology and give you a more realistic idea, in this interview Pol Romans, a web programmer at Mosaic Consulting, will answer these questions. Also, ¡they are looking for a developer to join the team! So if you're looking for a job or feel like making a change, you can see for yourself with whom and how you would work :) Here's the breakdown in case you want to jump directly to a specific part of the interview:
Minute by minute of the interview
- 0:25 Personal and professional introduction
- 1:14 Why you got into technology
- 1:39 Education: Why you chose high school and not vocational training modules
- 2:16 How do you view formal education in technology? Is it necessary to study a degree to work as a programmer?
- 4:36 Work experience: Where you have worked before becoming a web consultant
- 6:45 Mosaic Consulting: How many of you are there and how the company has evolved
- 7:25 What a backend developer does in their day-to-day work
- 8:28 What type of projects a web consulting company like Mosaic undertakes
- 9:25 Why consulting companies have a bad reputation
- 10:29 What positive aspects there are to working as a developer in a consulting firm
- 12:00 How you organize yourselves. Is it possible to apply Scrum and/or Kanban in a consulting firm?
- 13:25 Deployment cycle. How you apply Continuous Integration
- 14:07 Testing. What frameworks and technologies you use for testing
- 14:44 PHP and Symfony. How to achieve and what it brings to be a partner of SensioLabs
- 15:51 Partner of SensioLabs. Benefits in terms of recruiting
- 16:20 Job offer. What you are looking for
- 17:30 Business strategy. Twitter profile
- 18:10 Consulting firms. Difference between small and large companies. Why it is a good idea to join Mosaic