標題: Victoria Latosh, a TMS graduate, talks about how her life has changed after m... [打印本頁] 作者: rabiarahi 時間: 2024-11-9 12:02 標題: Victoria Latosh, a TMS graduate, talks about how her life has changed after m... — Tell me, what were you doing before you came to the courses? Where did you study, work?
— I worked as a Support Engineer for two years at the time when I went to the courses. Actually, I graduated from BNTU (industrial heat power engineering, engineer) and the work was no longer related to my specialty.
— How did you come to the conclusion that you wanted to try yourself in the IT sphere?
— I probably grew out of that job, those social media marketing service duties that I performed. And I wanted to develop. I had already outgrown my previous job, there was no further development there, the same duties. I worked as a technical support specialist, communicated with organizations, actually gave them advice on one software.
— Did you want to do testing specifically or enter the field in general?
— I was thinking of just entering IT, but I started with testing. I had a classmate, he is also a tester, and he recommended Roman
probably couldn't find the motivation to finish this business. Therefore, it was stretched out for some time, and in the end I started reading again, read it and began to look at where to move further specifically in testing.
I chose automation and then looked for courses on the Internet. I came across an interview with Dima Rak, he advertised automation in Java there, recommended some textbooks. The first was Roman Savin's, so that I would know about the types of testing in principle, and in Java (Head First Java).
Since I found an interview with Dima from TeachMeSkills, I already subscribed to the public, programs and followed all the news. Before the New Year, there was a raffle for a Letter to Santa Claus for free training. I wrote a letter, didn't win, but they gave me a
— Did you consider Java right away?
— Since I already wanted to work in automation, I started to figure out this book on Java and realized that it suited me in principle. But the only thing is that when you work with a book, you get general knowledge. I still needed some courses to guide me.
— How did the courses go? Was it easy?
— Depends on the topic. There was an easier topic, a more difficult topic. In principle, I did all the homework, and probably by the middle of the course I realized what I was doing.
It wasn’t entirely easy, because homework still takes a lot of time. If you combine work and courses, you need to be prepared for the fact that you need to put some of your personal activities and hobbies on hold for this period.
— And how much time did you spend on homework?
— We had classes on Mondays and Wednesdays. And I spent the whole Tuesday evening on homework for Wednesday, there was a
— And it was like that all the time? Didn't it get easier?
— At some points it did. This might be because I went on vacation at work, I had more time. Or there were some breaks between, say, teachers. One Dima taught us Java, and the other Dima taught automation. And there was a week between them, so it was great to catch up on some of my work, homework, etc.
— And did you look for answers to the questions yourself? Or did you turn to mentors?
— Well, at first I tried myself, and if not, then of course I asked Dima. He told me how to do it, explained. He got in touch pretty quickly, and there were no problems with that. Plus, we still kept in touch with the group, it was possible to sort out some issues with the guys.
— Do you still communicate with your classmates?
— Yes! It so happened that we are working with some of them now, and we periodically find out how the other guys from the group are doing. Not with all of them, but there is such a group.
— Tell us about employment after the courses. Did you have enough knowledge?
— I had enough. Already at the stage when we were writing our diploma project, the school recommended, I don’t know, a group or individual students, to a partner company. And this company was looking for guys for an internship. They invited me for an interview, I passed and received an offer from them, practically the first time. Following the interview, they said that your knowledge was sufficient and that we basically had nothing to teach you during the internship, so they hired me straight away.