Life as a Software Engineer with Nick Tsim

Nick Tsim is one of our Senior Software Engineers at Hive IT and it was a pleasure to welcome him onto the Make Things Better Podcast. We had a chat about a range of topics centred around Software Engineering and Nick explained to us: 00:46 - How Nick went from Graduating with a Chemistry Degree to becoming a Software Engineer 2:10 - Deciding to become a Software Engineer 3:45 - Favourable aspects of being a Software Engineer 5:02 - Favourite project to work on 6:57 - Approaching the DfE Explore Education Statistics Project 8:44 - How much time do Software Engineers spend writing code? 10:34 - Are people sensitive around the code they have written? 12:35 - What skills are useful as a Software Engineer? 17:45 - How important is focus as a Software Engineer? 20:37 - What is the best thing about working at Hive IT? 22:49 - What can people to do Make Things Better? You can also find the full transcript to the episode here: https://medium.com/hive-it/nick-tsim-is-one-of-our-senior-software-engineers-at-hive-it-and-it-was-a-pleasure-to-welcome-him-bf47620eaad6 Thanks a lot for listening and if you enjoy it please leave a review, cheers!