All posts tagged with 'confidence'
It takes a village to raise an intern
Let me tell you about my worst day at FreeAgent. At the start of June, I was eager to get started as the newest workflow intern, the team responsible for user-facing admin features. The first couple of weeks were spent bouncing between inductions and tech issues, but I finally found my feet at the beginning of week 3. Ruby was starting to make sense, my tech was up and running,… Continue reading
How to survive imposter syndrome in your software engineering internship
Hi there! My name is Fiona, and I am an intern at FreeAgent. I got my offer and dodged returning to the monotony of bar work that I endured last summer. However, I was only in my second year of studying Computer Science. How was I chosen from what must have been a sea of applicants? They must have overlooked someone! Had I lucked out? In hindsight, this was a… Continue reading
How to boost your confidence as a beginner software engineer
Every engineer has questioned at least once in their life whether they are skilled enough for their chosen field. I experienced these doubts when I started my computer science degree at university, and despite the fact that I got through the first three years successfully, I still wasn’t fully confident in my abilities when I started my internship at FreeAgent. However, this is entirely normal. Every engineer faces challenges on… Continue reading