Interviewing and Job Hunting

Looking for a company

• Know what you want in a company
• Research the company - Former employees, GlassDoor, Etc.
• Don't wait to be head hunted
• Know the company's story
• Answer the question: Why do you want to work for that company?

During an interview

Observe

• Office layout
• Employees
• Who is in the office?

During an interview

Questions to ask

• Promotion Process
• Hours Per Week Avg
• Slow Times
• Average Day Look like
• Meeting Frequency
• Team Building

Technical questions during an interview

• What type of version control do they use?
• What provider do they use? (GitHub, BitBucket, etc)
• How do they do code reviews?
• How do they integrate new technology?
• How do they handle deployments?
• How do they handle testing code?

Wordpress

Wordpress is a php web framework designed to be highly customizable and easy to develop. It is one of the of the most highly used web frameworks.

Wordpress powers 30%+ of websites and it's still growing.

Structure

WP is a blogging framework at it's core, but can be retrofitted for just about anything. Standard features include:

• Pages
• Posts
• Media Manager
• Comments
• Plugins
• Themes

Dev Setup

We're going to use pantheon for a development platform.

Patheon.io

Pages

WP pages are stand alone web pages with customized content.

Posts

WP posts are entries that act as blog posts, but can be extended to behave in different ways.

Media Manager

WP's media manager handles all major media types.

Comments

All pages and posts are able to have comments associated with them. The default method is open to a lot of spam.

Plugins

Plugins are what make WP so customizable. You can do just about anything with your site if you find the right plugin.

Themes

Themes are the cornerstone for the visualization of your site.

A good tutorial on how to start a blog...from a guy who started a six figure blog.

The most lucrative blogs are about....blogging?

Other interesting opportunities

Tutoring online

Tutoring in person

Other misc freelancing

Freelance for a startup

Exercise

Signup for Panthon.io

• Implement a custom theme.
• Find 4 plugins

Message me the following

• The URL to your WP site
• The URL to the theme you chose and why you chose it.
• The 4 plugins you chose and why.