Everyone on a team must be able to contribute to the project. To be invited to join a team for The Launch, you must have:

• Kept the commitments you made in your trainee agreement.
• Completed all your mandatory coursework from the Software Development Course, and had it reviewed and marked as completed.
• Applied to join the project with your CV, cover letter. (Get help preparing these on Slack in #cyf-profile-review).
• A deployed project you are prepared to demo.
• Passed The Launch interview.

You should only apply if you can commit to:

• Working in a team for 5 weeks
• Coming in person every Saturday, and working for 20 hours during the week every week.
• Being an active member of your team, sharing the work equally with everyone else.
• Participate in check-in meetings during the week (and if exceptionally not available, let people know 24 hours in advance)
• Pair program in your team
• Review code in your team

The interview will consist of:

• An introduction - you should introduce yourself.
• A project presentation - you are expected to demo a deployed project for about 10 minutes. You should:
  • Introduce the purpose of their project
  • Explain why and how a user would use the project
  • Show the UI of the project working
  • Explain at least one technical detail of how the project works
  • Explain what they learned through doing the project
  • List at least one thing they would do differently if they did the project again
• A technical discussion about your project
• One or more competency interview questions
• Time for any questions you have about The Launch.

If you want to practice for the interview, you can ask on Slack in #cyf-interview-practice.

The Launch - Software Engineer

You will build an MVP product in a cross-functional Agile team. The project is 5 weeks long.

Duties and responsibilities

• Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor moderately complex programs/scripts
• Apply agreed standards and tools to achieve a well-engineered result
• Collaborate in reviews of work with others as appropriate
• Present your work in technical demonstrations

Requirements and qualifications

You must have fulfilled all entry criteria.