Aram Boyd, CSP™, an award-winning Leadership Facilitator and Executive Coach from the Silicon Valley leadership coaching firm MotivaimCoach, shared why some engineers get bigger and better opportunities than others, and how you can leverage this in your career.
6. HOW WE HELPED SMITHSONIAN
CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY Improved from 4.0 to 4.3
APP RATINGS
Increased 43%
ACTIVE DEVICES
Increased 29%
DOWNLOADS
“Quality app! This is an example as to how other
channels should build their apps. I've deleted all the
others due to low overall app quality - but
Smithsonian stays.” – Google Playstore Review
20. “Why Work at Big Nerd Ranch”
One of the great things about Big Nerd Ranch is that you're surrounded by people that are a lot smarter than you. We really go for three
things which is: hardworking, brilliant and kind. Everyone here is just first of all kind on top of being brilliant at what they do.
I think my favorite thing is that we can all learn from each other and everybody's really excited to learn from each other. And so if you
have a problem and you don't really understand what's going on you can go and find someone and people will jump at the chance to
teach you things.
We have lots of moving deadlines and it takes a kind person to be able to work with those clients and work with other team members if
you are coming here as a developer it’s just not enough for us that you're awesome at programming but at the same time we value the
ability to connect with people.
People work from wherever they want whenever they want. As long as the results are achieved we're happy our clients are happy and
everybody's happy.
I get work done at 10:00 a.m. I get work done at 10:00 p.m. I get work done at 3:00 a.m. it all depends on what's going on and when
inspiration strikes me.
If I find that I’ve been home for 36 hours and only talked to my dog, I realize I should really go into the office
For fun we sit around and learn more things about writing code that's that's not even a lie. We have some social events where we get
together and eat breakfast together a couple every every couple weeks we go through a ton of bacon I get a chance to be part of a
company that is genuinely useful every day and I like being part of that process.
kind.
kind
It takes a
kind person
it takes a kind person
Work with other
team members
work with other team
members
Everyone here is just first of all kind
Everyone here
is
first of all, kind.
it’s just not enough for us that you're awesome at programming
It’s not enough
that you're awesome at
programming
21. “Why Work at Big Nerd Ranch”
One of the great things about Big Nerd Ranch is that you're surrounded by people that are a lot smarter than you. We really go for three
things which is: hardworking, brilliant and kind. Everyone here is just first of all kind on top of being brilliant at what they do.
I think my favorite thing is that we can all learn from each other and everybody's really excited to learn from each other. And so if you
have a problem and you don't really understand what's going on you can go and find someone and people will jump at the chance to
teach you things.
We have lots of moving deadlines and it takes a kind person to be able to work with those clients and work with other team members if
you are coming here as a developer it’s not just enough for us that you're awesome at programming but at the same time we value the
ability to connect with people.
People work from wherever they want whenever they want. As long as the results are achieved we're happy our clients are happy and
everybody's happy.
I get work done at 10:00 a.m. I get work done at 10:00 p.m. I get work done at 3:00 a.m. it all depends on what's going on and when
inspiration strikes me.
If I find that I’ve been home for 36 hours and only talked to my dog, I realize I should really go into the office
For fun we sit around and learn more things about writing code that's that's not even a lie. We have some social events where we get
together and eat breakfast together a couple every every couple weeks we go through a ton of bacon I get a chance to be part of a
company that is genuinely useful every day and I like being part of that process.
kind Everyone here is
first of all, kind.
It takes a
kind person
Work with other
team members
It’s not enough
that you're awesome at
programming
We value the ability to connect with
people
We value the ability to
connect with people
43. SERVICES OVERVIEW
DIGITAL PRODUCT
DEVELOPMENT
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Excellence
BOOT
CAMP
Total Immersion
TEAM
TRAINING
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THE
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21 of the world’s top 25 apps were built by
developers trained by Big Nerd Ranch