Code & Tell at Junior Dev SG
Tags: beginners, career, discuss
Published: 2019-03-17 03:29:06

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![Junior Dev SG Photo of me presenting](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/l61w1x65gd32b3yn81z2.jpeg)

## Introduction
Last Thursday, I had just spoken about "Building a Personal Blog with JAM stack" at the **Junior Developer Singapore**. 

A **Junior Developer** chapter in Singapore that originated in **Australia**. 

Which aims to focus on providing a platform for junior developers who are new to the software industry. 

To network with peers and learn from senior developers to hopefully one day become a tech lead. 

Overall it was a wonderful experience in speaking in a junior developer meetup.

So here are some of my take on the talks on the junior developer meetup.

## Elements of Technical Interview
Going through a technical interview has been a necessary evil for all developer jobs. 

Which there are tons of articles that talk about it at depth from whiteboard tests to programming questions by Google and other major companies. 

I find that for this talk, it is actually very beneficial for junior developers to understand and the preparation work needed even before starting your interview.

Researching a company and the interviewer who will be interviewing you. Helps to be a huge confidence boost to yourself and interviewer. 

Since having conducted a few interviews, I always find it amusing for candidates that come for an interview. 

That they have no idea about what my company is doing and try to **bs** your way to impress me. 

With your technical understanding or credentials to talk down on me is always an instant red flag for me.

## Data Science in Insurance
Data science in insurance is an area that I had never explored. 

Since I believe it might be because most of the fintech startups that I had come across.

Who build their startup to focus on either blockchain or payment transaction in the fintech sector.

What I like about the talk is the various use cases of data science in insurance. 

One of them was an insurance recommendations engine that helps a user in purchasing insurance policies. 

Which this AI agent uses insurance underwriting checklist to gauge an individual and recommends an insurance policy without actually going through an actual agent.

## Creating Technology that Customer Needs
Product development is an area that is hardly covered in tech articles that I had come across. 

In this talk, **Nidhi Gupta** from **Portcast** focuses on building products or services to fulfil the customer's needs. 

Since as a developer, we might focus on the technical side of a product but we might lack the understanding of the user who will be using the product. 

She recommends touch points on what we could do as a developer to be in tune with our customer's needs to retain their existing customer.

This is one of the talks that are really important for a developer who is just starting out.

## Conclusion
The talks provide insights into the product development, data science for insurance and the interview process.

Which I believe is really useful for any junior developers who are looking to start their career as a developer. 

I find that speaking is vastly different from being the person on the receiving end of insights of the speakers.

As there is a lot of preparation that comes when your speaking about a specific topic to share your insights or understanding to an audience.

It is really a good feeling that your talks helped to inspire action and is useful for your audience

I hope to improve on what I had learnt from this talk and become better as I speak in more meetups and conferences in the future.

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This post was originally posted on max's blog at [Code & Tell at Junior Dev SG](https://www.maxongzb.com/code-and-tell-at-junior-dev-sg-reading-time-4-mins/) and [Photo by Junior Developer Singapore](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/l61w1x65gd32b3yn81z2.jpeg)

# References
* [Building a Developer Blog through Jam Stack][1]
* [Data Science In Insurance][2]
* [Elements of Technical Interviews][3]
* [Creating technology that fits customer needs][4] 
* [Junior Developr Singapore][5]


[1]: https://youtu.be/fpzhij9ILKc
[2]: https://youtu.be/IBY-yJ2gDew
[3]: https://youtu.be/rKVxbY1uRXk
[4]: https://youtu.be/sihh9_IP03Q
[5]: https://www.meetup.com/Junior-Developers-Singapore/