Chelsea Cain - . NET Developer
When I left university, I didn't quite know the area of tech I wanted to commit my career to. C# was my language of choice, but I really enjoyed other aspects of my course and wanted to find a role that I could explore various options.
15below loved this! And during my time as a Graduate Developer, I worked on ALL types of projects. I did an optional secondment in as a Developer in Support, a quick paced role where I was able to manage my own set of customers and workload. I worked directly with the Support team manager to identify improvements to a customer’s solution and even worked 1-2-1 with big airline customers to help educate and debug their 15below platform issues.
I'm now working on multiple customer projects, some where I'm Lead Developer, some where I'm supporting and even some projects where I'm my own project manager too!
For me, the best aspect of the Graduate Programme was the flexibility in work and the introduction it gave me to industry standard code. We worked on live projects from the get-go, which shows you’re a valued member of the team from day 1. Coming from university can be a little daunting, but 15below provided a great set of interactive sessions, platform demos and pair programming sessions.
On top of that, the graduate team worked together to generate an in-house tool which is still used daily by all the developers!
To top it all off, the mass of company socials AND just how friendly and welcoming 15below was made a HUGE difference to the whole experience. Nobody was ever too busy to approach, and usually you’d find your employees would approach you first to make sure everything is OK!
Website: 15below.com
