Episode #7 - Noah Portes Chaikin, Senior Software Engineer at Code Climate

In this episode, we interview Noah Portes Chaikin. Noah is a senior software engineer at Code Climate. Code Climate creates analytics software for development teams so they can evaluate code risks and tie performance metrics to code changes. In our conversation, we learned about how Noah got into software engineering without a college degree, including how he taught himself the technical skills necessary to land his first developer job. We also discussed why Noah prefers working at startups vs. larger organizations and how that's contributed to his professional growth. Noah also shared his take on hiring, and what he looks for when hiring engineers.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/secret-sauce/support