Job Types Agency, Tech, Startup, Entrepreneur VS Tech company VS In House

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about their thoughts on the different types of tech jobs you can get, and the pros and cons of each style of job in tech. Lightstep Incident Response - Sponsor Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Usage-based pricing on active services promotes collaboration across your entire team to build a culture of service ownership. Listeners of Syntax will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident. Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:47 The types of jobs Wes’ tweet about developer jobs 03:02 Our experiences 05:58 Tech company 09:46 Freelancer or Entrepreneur 11:14 What are the pros of working at a agency? 18:38 Cons to agency life 26:19 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response 27:49 Pros of tech company jobs 30:47 Cons of working at tech companies 37:46 Sponsor: Freshbooks 38:51 Pros of in house tech jobs 46:01 Cons of tech work 51:29 Sponsor: LogRocket 52:28 Pros of freelance or entrepreneur 57:20 Cons of entrepreneur life 00:03 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Wes: Soap pump Scott: Pro breaking tour Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:07.9	Here is Scott Zelensky and West Boss.
0:10.9	Oh, welcome to syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:15.6	Today we've got a show for you, started as a potluck.
0:18.6	Now it's a full blown show.
0:20.6	We're going to talk about different kinds of web developer jobs that you can get into
0:24.9	in the pros and cons between them.
0:26.8	So we've got agency, consultancies, tech companies, startup,
0:31.2	in-house, corporate, government, freelance, and entrepreneur.
0:34.5	We're talking about all of them.
0:36.4	We are sponsored by three awesome companies today.
0:38.9	Lightstep Incident Response, the all-in-one Incident Response platform for DevOps and SREs,
0:46.0	FreshBooks, Cloud Accounting, and Log Rocket JavaScript session replay.
0:49.7	We'll talk about all of them put away through the episode with me as always,
0:53.4	is Mr. Scott Zelensky. How are you doing today, Scott?
0:56.0	Hey, I am doing good, man.
1:01.3	Just living it pretty deep into the building of the next UI version of our site right now.
1:07.2	And I've gotten to the point where my primitive components that I've written to help me do this
1:13.0	design are all working just a really nice way. And it does start to feel like I'm assembling
1:18.4	the Lego pieces. A lot of the functionality is the same as it was before, so I'm not having
1:23.7	to get into too much beyond CSS and HTML stuff. So it really feels like it's in a good spot,
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