Well, it wasn't actually a job. It was a trainee position at a local company, i was expected to meet certain requiremets as per say:
* 4h availability
* Web development basic knowledge
In order to continue the application process, i had to complete some forms, the problem was... They sent those to me 20 DAYS AGO!. When i got into this "unplugged" thinh i wasn't expecting to be called accepted from a company due to my lack of experience.
Having nothing to lose, i completed the forms, contacted the employer, and got lucky!. The entry position was still available and the team were really glad to had more people into the trainee program.
A few days later i got my first meeting with the team and the rest of the trainees, there i had the opportunity to talk to the CEO and the developer in charge, they were actually really approachable (?), it was a small company willing to grow form developers. The job tasks were mainly related to the maintantence and development of websites from clients that were developed in Wordpress.
First weeks as a trainee 👨🏼💻
As a trainee, my first assignments were mainly related to the development simple code snippets that extended the functionality of those sites through hooks with php, some javascript, html and css and when there wasn't any hard task, i'll had to write some tech-related articles in order to contribute to the SEO of the company website.
After two weeks, the CEO noticed my enthusiasm and will to learn, so the 9th of November he came with a salary proposal and i got my first Job as a Junior Web Developer!.
I gotta admit that the next months were kinda rough, i hadn't used wordpress before and never programmed in PHP, so i had to learn in practice: reading docs, blogs, forums, and deep diving into the code of some wordpress plugins were some of my daily tasks as a junior.
Eventually i started to feel comfortable with most of those assignments and got confident with my problem-solving skills. Then, after 3 months i was promoted to Web Developer!
Projects 🖥
One of the main responsabilities that came with thte promotion was being in charge of talent acquisition and (capacitacion?), i had the opportunity to be both interviewer and teacher of web developer entring trainees!. Besides of this, as a Web developer from the company, i worked in some projects like:
- Cautive Portal and backend for a Hotspot Wifi.
- E-commerce's.
- Wordpress Plugin Development.
- Development of python trading Bot.
- Development of a python productivity monitoring tool.
After a few months I managed to create a small development group in the company, with them I had the opportunity to learn how to work as a team, management, leadership, code documentation and folder structure best practices and repository branching models in order to keep the projects organized.
But things weren't looking all that promising, the salary was ok, considering that the company was established here in Venezuela and i was earning quite good. What i didn't actually liked was the lack of a clear company vision, i felt the need of being in a more well-stablished company where i had the opportunity to keep growing as a developer, doing more advanced projects and learning along the way, so in may of 2021 i started to apply to other companies outside of the country and after 2 weeks i got another offer!
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