WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.290 --> 00:00:03.300 I'm James and I am a software engineer. 2 00:00:03.300 --> 00:00:05.240 My company, MediaBeacon, produces 3 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:06.590 a digital asset management, 4 00:00:06.590 --> 00:00:08.350 line:15% or DAM, software. 5 00:00:08.350 --> 00:00:12.330 line:15% So, basically what that is is these big companies 6 00:00:12.330 --> 00:00:15.280 line:15% have a lot of digital files and assets, I guess, 7 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:17.040 line:15% that they need to deal with and we provide 8 00:00:17.040 --> 00:00:18.678 a solution for that. 9 00:00:18.678 --> 00:00:19.610 You know, there's searching and sorting 10 00:00:19.610 --> 00:00:21.830 and all kinds of stuff they can do with it. 11 00:00:21.830 --> 00:00:22.980 Something that would come to my desk 12 00:00:22.980 --> 00:00:25.290 line:15% would be a bug, let's say, that needs fixing, 13 00:00:25.290 --> 00:00:26.910 line:15% and I'd go in and I'd fix that. 14 00:00:26.910 --> 00:00:28.020 line:15% Basically the way it works is 15 00:00:28.020 --> 00:00:30.100 line:15% that we have a big pool of tickets 16 00:00:30.100 --> 00:00:33.293 line:15% that need fixing or implementing or whatever, 17 00:00:34.420 --> 00:00:36.856 and I can just pick what I wanna work on 18 00:00:36.856 --> 00:00:39.530 and it varies day to day, too. 19 00:00:39.530 --> 00:00:41.490 You know, I've been on projects that have lasted 20 00:00:41.490 --> 00:00:43.380 one, two weeks and I've been on stuff 21 00:00:43.380 --> 00:00:44.750 that's lasted less than an hour. 22 00:00:44.750 --> 00:00:47.970 So, it really depends on what I'm in the mood for, I guess, 23 00:00:47.970 --> 00:00:49.960 and what I decide to pick up. 24 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:51.810 The stuff I have to work on varies 25 00:00:53.045 --> 00:00:55.060 line:15% from UI stuff, you know, user interface, 26 00:00:55.060 --> 00:00:57.640 line:15% so if there's, let's say, you're trying to 27 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:01.980 line:15% scale a window and one of the widgets, 28 00:01:01.980 --> 00:01:03.820 line:15% as we like to call them, 29 00:01:03.820 --> 00:01:05.940 pops out of the window and you have to scroll over, 30 00:01:05.940 --> 00:01:07.530 that's not very, you know, 31 00:01:07.530 --> 00:01:08.670 doesn't flow very well, 32 00:01:08.670 --> 00:01:10.953 so that was one of the last thing I had to fix. 33 00:01:11.834 --> 00:01:13.900 Just making it look better. 34 00:01:13.900 --> 00:01:16.210 But there's a huge back end. 35 00:01:16.210 --> 00:01:17.740 Hundreds of thousands of lines of code 36 00:01:17.740 --> 00:01:19.640 that you gotta kind of comb through 37 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:22.900 and make sure everything's running in tip top shape. 38 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:24.110 For me as an engineer, 39 00:01:24.110 --> 00:01:26.380 we have our morning meet at 10 o'clock 40 00:01:26.380 --> 00:01:28.210 and we have it over Slack, 41 00:01:28.210 --> 00:01:30.210 so we do a chat meeting, 42 00:01:30.210 --> 00:01:32.560 line:15% and as long as I'm in by 10, 43 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:34.170 line:15% that's fine with my manager and you know, 44 00:01:34.170 --> 00:01:36.513 line:15% I work, put in eight hours and then lunch, 45 00:01:38.060 --> 00:01:39.710 line:15% and that's it, so it' pretty flexible. 46 00:01:39.710 --> 00:01:41.450 You know, sometimes if I wanna leave earlier, 47 00:01:41.450 --> 00:01:44.500 I'll show up at 7:30 or 8:00 and sometimes 48 00:01:44.500 --> 00:01:45.620 if I wanna sleep in a little bit, 49 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:46.653 I'll show up at 10.