Life as a Software Engineer with Nick Tsim

Nick Tsim is one of our Senior Software Engineers at Hive IT and it was a pleasure to welcome him onto the Make Things Better Podcast.   We had a chat about a range of topics centred around Software Engineering and Nick explained to us:   00:46 - How Nick went from Graduating with a Chemistry Degree to becoming a Software Engineer  2:10 - Deciding to become a Software Engineer  3:45 - Favourable aspects of being a Software Engineer  5:02 - Favourite project to work on  6:57 - Approaching the DfE Explore Education Statistics Project  8:44 - How much time do Software Engineers spend writing code?  10:34 - Are people sensitive around the code they have written?  12:35 - What skills are useful as a Software Engineer?  17:45 - How important is focus as a Software Engineer?  20:37 - What is the best thing about working at Hive IT?  22:49 - What can people to do Make Things Better?   You can also find the full transcript to the episode here: https://medium.com/hive-it/nick-tsim-is-one-of-our-senior-software-engineers-at-hive-it-and-it-was-a-pleasure-to-welcome-him-bf47620eaad6 Thanks a lot for listening and if you enjoy it please leave a review, cheers!

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The main goal of The Make Things Better Podcast is to create a discussion on how technology is used, with the hope of bringing in areas of sociology, psychology, and philosophy. We intend to talk about topics such as; technologies impact on mental health, inclusive design and design accessibility, the social impact of design, compassion in digital spaces, new ideas around how we use technology, data privacy issues, procrastination when using technology and more!