ApplySarthiSoftware Engineer Instructor - PT
General Assembly
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- Why do you want to join General Assembly?
- What is your experience with JavaScript? Tell me one thing you learned the hard way.
- How do you decide what to test, and what does good code review look like to you?
- Describe a time a deadline forced a trade-off in quality. What did you choose and why?
- How would you design an API for a feature you have worked on?
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Practise the Software Engineer Instructor - PT at General Assembly interview free →Since 2011, General Assembly has transformed tens of thousands of careers through pioneering, experiential education in today’s most in-demand skills. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers training in web development, data, design, business, and more, both online and at campuses around the world. Our global professional community boasts 60,000 full- and part-time alumni — and counting. In addition to fostering career growth for individuals, GA helps employers cultivate top tech talent and spur innovation by transforming their teams through strategic learning. More than 21,000 employees at elite companies worldwide have honed their digital fluency with our upskilling and reskilling initiatives. GA has also been recognized as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, and Fast Company has dubbed us leaders in World-Changing Ideas as well as the #1 Most Innovative Company in Education.
GA is at the leading edge of creating practical solutions to one of the most pressing challenges of our time - the future of work. As recognized by The World Economic Forum, BCG, the OECD and more, these are big challenges to which only a few companies are offering real solutions. In this role, you'll be speaking every day to corporate leaders who rely on GA to help them apply these solutions to their workforce of the future.
We are looking for instructors:
- Our Software Engineering Bootcamp is a life-changing educational experience where our students learn the skills and mindsets to take on new careers as web developers. We are looking for a lead instructor with strong JavaScript experience to play a key role on our growing instructional team.
What do we teach?
- We begin by teaching the fundamentals of programming and web design using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Approximately 50% of the course, typically covered in Units 2 and 4, focuses on back-end languages and their respective frameworks. We cover Node.js with the Express framework (MVC design pattern) alongside MongoDB (NoSQL) and Python with the Django framework (MVT design pattern) paired with PostgreSQL (SQL), using these technologies to introduce key concepts such as API development, databases, security, and other essential topics.
- Unit 3 shifts the focus back to JavaScript, where we explore consuming APIs through one or more front-end MV* frameworks such as Angular, Ember, or React. Additionally, we emphasize crucial skills for junior web developers, including source control, team collaboration, and efficient developer workflows.
- We give students the chance to spend focused time building at least 4 major projects, in addition to other smaller projects and labs.
Skills and Qualifications
- You are the person that your colleagues naturally gravitate to when they are trying to figure something out.
- You are eager to shape the skills, minds, and careers of the newest generation of web developers.
- You have at least 3+ years of experience working on a software development team.
- Familiarity with Computer Science topics, such as: Recursion, Sorting, Search, Linked Lists, Stacks and queues, Sets, Trees, Search Tries, Graphs, Hash tables, and Design patterns
- You have working experience in both front-end and back-end development, and are fluent in:
- HTML and CSS
- Full-stack JavaScript (strong JavaScript highly preferred)
- At least one JS MV* framework (React preferred)
- SQL databases (we generally use PostgreSQL)
- NoSQL (we generally cover MongoDB)
- At least one additional object-oriented language (Python highly preferred)
Responsibilities and Duties
- Teach Sunday to Wednesday from 6pm-9pm for the duration of the 24 week course, in-person, on campus in Bahrain.
- Instructors will need to commit a few hours per week preparing lessons and materials, leveraging existing GA curriculum content.
- Work closely with co-instructors or teaching assistants to provide students with meaningful and prompt feedback on their progress.
- Work alongside GA staff and teaching team to best meet the needs and learning styles of your students.
- Guide students through development of a stellar final project that will showcase their abilities to hiring managers.
- Facilitate a dynamic, collaborative, and positive classroom community.
- Inspire students to persevere through the challenges of learning a new skill set.
Unless otherwise noted, remote positions can be performed from the following approved General Assembly operating countries.
United States of America (states of operation may vary), Canada (provinces of operation may vary), United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore.
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