Fullstack Traineeship Program

In Padawans We Trust

Because Jedis are rare, because the Force is in all of us, because training people is very rewarding, because we need you, here is our 6 months Fullstack Traineeship Program.

Concepts

• Buddy System: one of your dev colleague will always be in charge of answering your questions and be there for your needs. This is done on a rotating schedule:

  • First week: new buddy every day.

  • Weeks [2, 3, 4]: new buddy every week.

  • Months [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]: new buddy every 2 weeks (sprint).

• 1 pair programming session with someone else that your buddy every week.

• 1-to-1 interview every 2 weeks with your CTO.

• Weekly report: show me what you did.

• You will have to share with us a personal development plan detailing your goals in the coming month/3 months/6 months/year/5 years.

• You will have to build a personal trail'app that you will update all along this traineeship to show off your learnings and new skills.

Planning

Week 1: Discovery

The goal of this very first week with us will mostly be to get on board! So lots of info sessions to get to know our stuffs. Buckle up!

Lessons:

• Products Tour:

  • Main app

  • Extension

  • Public API

  • Zapier

• Culture Discovery

• Machine Setup:

  • Boot prospectio on local machine

• Codebases Tour:

  • prospectio

    • main app

    • extension

    • design system

  • email-gateway

  • prospectio-api-doc

  • prospectio-zapier

  • marketing-website

• DevOp 101:

  • Heroku

  • GitPages

• Dev Team Workflow:

  • Sprints

  • Pivotal

  • Feature development flow

• Architecture Concepts:

  • MVC+: Controllers, Commands & Services

  • Business logic

  • Domains

• Prospectio Backend Main Components Tour:

  • Events bus & callbacks

  • Sending system

  • Tracking systems

  • Email finder

  • Background jobs & CRONs

  • Soft deletion

Goals:

• Update the marketing website to add yourself to the team page

• Fix one typo into the main app

• Fix one typo into this playbook

• Make your first contribution to the prospectio repo

Week 2: Advanced Ruby & Rails

Lessons:

• Ruby:

  • OOP Principles

  • Proc & lambda

  • Meta programming

  • Conditional assignment

  • Control structure (begin, rescue, ensure)

  • Modules

• Rails:

  • ActiveRecord:

    • Scopes

    • Transactions

    • Locks

    • Delegation

    • Polymorphic associations

    • Advanced migrations & indexes

  • REST API

  • ActionCable

  • ActiveStorage

• Advanced Git Usage

Tasks:

• Refactoring:

  • 1 controller

  • 1 model

  • 1 service

  • 1 job

• Fixing your first bug on prospectio

• Start building your own trail'app

Week 3 & 4: Frontend

Lessons:

• JS:

  • ES6 (const, let, fat arrows, etc.)

  • Native classes

  • Import/Export Mechanism

  • XHR/AJAX

  • Promises

• Ember.js:

  • Routing, controllers & templates

  • components

  • Ember Data

  • Services

  • The Golden Rule: Data Down, Actions Up

  • Custom APIs:

    • nested entities & UUID

    • custom actions & actionable parent

• Templating:

  • CSS 101

  • Flexbox

  • BEM & IT structure

Tasks:

• Using Ember for the frontend of your trail'app

• Convert legacy Ember object to JS native class:

  • 1 model

  • 1 controller

  • 1 route

  • 1 component

• Make your first frontend contribution

Months 2 & 3: Building features as a Team

Lessons:

• Clean Code 101

• Testing

• Debugging Techniques

• Advanced SQL & DB Performance

• Performance

• Chrome API

• Bash

Tasks:

• Writing specs for every new backend code you write

• Improve the tests coverage by 2%

• Add specs to your trail'app

• Building your first fullstack feature

• Contribute to the Playbook

Months [4, 5, 6]: Becoming an independent craftsman

Lessons:

• Networking 101

• Release Planification

• Advanced DevOps

• Secure Development

Tasks:

• Release one epic per month

• Contribute to the Playbook