Great interview, I very much resonate with Justin and his career path. It's very much like my own going from an art background to working in entry level tech support to working in a Support Engineer role. I definitely think that this tech space is often overlooked as it's not known or seen as not glamorous, but it can be such a fun and rewarding space and sometimes Support can really make or break a company's product offering. Anyhow looking forward to watching more of these Interview style videos as they come.
Great video! im from Brazil and im started from 0 knowledge to support a database of a great company in 3 years! I know very well what it's like to start off the "hard way".
Different people will have different answers, but I like the current definition on Wikipedia: “Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems … to fulfill functional objectives … The word engineer (Latin ingeniator[3]) is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to create, generate, contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").” For me it’s about a rigorous approach combined with creative problem solving.
@@tutoriaLinux Ok. Makes more sens for me now. Thanks. I asked this question because I am French and in french, the word "ingénieur" is very specific and refers exclusively to the wikipedia definition you give, especially the inventing and designing part. That means a simple technician would not be called an engineer.
I see what you’re saying. Someone following a script, tutorial, or detailed procedure is usually not doing “engineering” - however I think the title definitely applies to Justin and the work he’s done: troubleshooting complex interactions between software at all layers of the stack, reading source code to trace and reason about behavior, working around unique customer environments and constraints, etc.
"Get good at being a beginner" is great advice.
Great interview, I very much resonate with Justin and his career path. It's very much like my own going from an art background to working in entry level tech support to working in a Support Engineer role. I definitely think that this tech space is often overlooked as it's not known or seen as not glamorous, but it can be such a fun and rewarding space and sometimes Support can really make or break a company's product offering.
Anyhow looking forward to watching more of these Interview style videos as they come.
Great video! im from Brazil and im started from 0 knowledge to support a database of a great company in 3 years! I know very well what it's like to start off the "hard way".
Great interview! I'm looking to get into a support engineering position in the upcoming months; a lot of great info!
What a great conversation. Topical or otherwise.
I subscribe to many of these ideals as well, it's sad that decency is punished in so many places.
it seems like impossible to get considered without experience
hashi!!!! :) I knew it!
There is supposedly a discord channel, maybe .. ;)
I see that everybody seems to be an "engineer" in the IT field nowadays. Engineer of this, engineer of that. What does "engineer" mean in fact?
Designing and integrating systems to perform particular tasks for a particular purpose.
Different people will have different answers, but I like the current definition on Wikipedia: “Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems … to fulfill functional objectives … The word engineer (Latin ingeniator[3]) is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to create, generate, contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").”
For me it’s about a rigorous approach combined with creative problem solving.
@@JivanPal I did not listen very carefully but it does not seem that the guy's job in this video consists in "designing and integrating systems".
@@tutoriaLinux Ok. Makes more sens for me now. Thanks. I asked this question because I am French and in french, the word "ingénieur" is very specific and refers exclusively to the wikipedia definition you give, especially the inventing and designing part. That means a simple technician would not be called an engineer.
I see what you’re saying. Someone following a script, tutorial, or detailed procedure is usually not doing “engineering” - however I think the title definitely applies to Justin and the work he’s done: troubleshooting complex interactions between software at all layers of the stack, reading source code to trace and reason about behavior, working around unique customer environments and constraints, etc.
ADHDitive!
I'm *reasonably* sure that I'm not a bot... but we also haven't met, so /shrug
I've learnt much more doing everything as a joke though.