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My First Month being a Full Time Software Engineer

Jay Wilson
2 min readAug 26, 2021

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Here’s a little bit of how my 1st month has been being a full time software engineer. If you didn’t know, I got my first software engineering position about a month ago. It’s a fully remote position with the home base in Austin, Texas.

What do I do exactly?

My title is (Marketing) Software Engineer. Currently, this means I’m really in charge of their Webflow sites. If you haven’t heard of Webflow, it’s a pretty neat no-code website builder. You can enhance it with JavaScript, but it’s really designed to work without any code.

This was actually a lot different than I was expecting. I was expecting a bit more coding and a lot less webflow, but my first big project actually got me really excited to work with it. I had to do some work arounds since I hit a lot of limits, and that was a lot of fun.

My manager and I are working on getting me actually into the react app’s code base which is awesome, and I think what I want right now.

What’s my schedule look like?

The general working hours are 8:30am to 5pm central standard time. Since the company is 100% remote, I have some flexibility. I really try to stick to…

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Jay Wilson
Jay Wilson

Written by Jay Wilson

I like to solve problems using Swift, make YouTube videos, and take photos. I also really enjoy a good cup of coffee.

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