.tech that chat

Welcome! You have showed interest in possibly joining The Tech Collective's .tech that full-stack team.

You are about to set off on for a small exerecise which will probably take you 30 mins to complete. It's not a coding exercise and it's not a competition. You can't win or lose, there is no right or wrong. You can't be excluded or otherwise be ruled out. There are no dumb questions and there are a few instructions but no rules. So feel free to show some initiative.

The purpose of the exercise is two-fold:

👉 For you to get a little bit more information about what we do, who we are, how we work and hopefully enable you to descide wether or not The Tech Collective's .tech that team might be a career you'd like to pursue.
👉 For us to get some insigth into who you are, what you want, how you (like to) work and your perspective on things that are dear to us.

We assume you got here from an invite to a GitHub Classroom exercise[^notghclassroom].

[^notghclassroom]: If you didn't get here from a GitHub Classroom assignment you are truely inventious and curious. But to participate you must enter from the GitHub Classroom assignment - Go there and accept the assigment — and you will end up here again, only in a different setting

During this exercise you will have your own GitHub repository. It's private, so only you and we can see your replies and reflections. You will not be asked to write code or build anything. In this exercise we only use the GitHub Issues in your repo to get your replies an reflections. And if you choose you can even engage with us in the process — more on how to do that later.

If - by the end of this exercise - you still find that becoming a member of our team is attractive and relevant then the very last assignment is simply to use the link we provide in the end to book us for a video meeting (...or maybe you have booed it already) where we can go over your replies and reflections and get to know each other a bit.

How to do this exercise[^notghclassroom]

👉 Your first task is to create an issue... 👈

When you hit the button "New issue" you'll be presented to a few different options. Use the A bit about you template. The issue you create will present you to a small form — use your full name as the issue title.

👉 Work those issues 👈

Immidately after you submit your first issues an automated GitHub Actions workflow starts - it copies some template issues over to your own repo - It may take 15-20 seconds to finish - You can monitor it in the Actions tab. When the job is finished and the issues are copied over, you are good to go.

Continue there, work those issues

👉 If you need help 👈

At any time, if you need help, you have options:

1. Feel free to mention me @lakruzz in any of your issues.
2. Chat me up on LinkedIn (also) @lakruzz.
3. Join the public discussions in "The Tech Collective - Case Library"