Well ... it's still in development.
I 'm not good at loop processing, but
Over the mountains, over the valleys, over the hills
Well ... let's go straight to the goal.
I'd like to introduce Maruyama Tomoyuki (front-end engineer/currently working in the Coding Factory department). My name is Ito, and I am the former head of the Coding Factory department.
It's already been four years since Maruyama joined the company. He's already reaching veteran status, and is starting to look good sitting with his knees up in a nice Aeron chair, exuding a veteran aura to his juniors.
When Maruyama concentrates, he naturally kneels down.
Maruyama Tomoyuki remains unchanged.
In January 2013, Coding Factory wasn't actively recruiting at the time, but one day, out of the blue, we received an email.
Nice to meet you. My name is Tomoyuki Maruyama.
(Greetings omitted)
When I was in my third year of university, I had a class where we researched and gave a presentation on website interface design. This experience sparked my interest in the web industry, and during my student days I was mainly looking for a job where I could work as a web designer.
(Omitted)
I became particularly attracted to HTML coding among web production tasks and was looking for an environment where I could work as a front-end engineer when my eye fell on the page for your company's Coding Factory service.
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If you are hired, you will gradually gain experience as an apprentice by performing tasks such as corrections and checking, and will actively improve your skills by participating in internal study sessions and continuing to study independently to become a fully-fledged front-end engineer. You will then become a top engineer who can handle any project as an expert and build websites that please both customers and users who view the site.
I would be grateful if I could have an opportunity to interview you.
Thank you very much.
Freshly graduated college students from as far away as Oita Prefecture are saying they want to work at Coding Factory, which was previously just a division of a small-to-medium-sized company in Tokyo.
I was so happy! But at the same time, I felt that hiring new graduates meant that I had the responsibility of nurturing and guiding them as members of society. At the time, Coding Factory was in the midst of building its organization and systems, and I remember worrying about whether I could fulfill that responsibility.
However, what gave me the push I needed was one thing he said during the interview.
I want to become a front-end engineer.
I still remember how I felt that those words contained everything he was feeling.
Although he graduated from a university in Oita Prefecture and could have had many other job opportunities, Maruyama chose to come to Tokyo, an unfamiliar place, live alone, and train at Coding Factory just to become a "front-end engineer." There was no way that such a choice could be true, so we decided to hire him.
It has been four years since he joined Monosus, but those words he spoke before joining the company were not a lie, and since then he has kept his ears open to information about web production and continues to output it.
I read a lot of articles about web production, put them into practice myself, and share them on Facebook.
I attended web production seminars and presented what I learned there to other engineers.
Now, I continue to input and output more than anyone else in the company.
It grows and changes in many ways, which I think is wonderful.
However, Maruyama's attitude made me realize that continuing to do the important things "without changing" is just as important.
I believe that the awareness-raising activities, knowledge, and information about front-end engineering that he has continued to provide will undoubtedly become a major foundation for Coding Factory, and above all, a foundation for him himself.
Although our relationship was originally that of "boss and subordinate," as a fellow "engineer," I cannot help but feel a humble respect for his unchanging demeanor.
I want to become a front-end engineer.
Moved by these words, I heard something shocking from Maruyama a while after he joined the company.
"I chose Tokyo because Akihabara is there."
I vaguely remember screaming in my head, "Is that your goal?"
Anime goods that give a glimpse of Maruyama's love for anime
The changing Maruyama Tomoyuki.
As we have written about many times on this website, Maruyama has a history of volunteering to serve as a lecturer at Kamiyama Monosasu Juku, one of our company's initiatives.
(More details here↓)
- " I want to make more friends who also code ."
- " Looking back on Kamiyama Monosasu Juku and Kamiyama "
Unlike previous coding work that involved working with a computer, the instructors were dealing with real human beings.
To be completely honest, I think he must have been very worried during the preparation period before he started teaching. He must have been lost and lost while thinking about what to teach the students and how to help them work professionally.
But I know Maruyama.
That he honestly stated his desire to become a front-end engineer and continued to work hard to make it come true.
He said, "I want to be a teacher at Kamiyama Monosasu Juku." There is no way he could be lying.
Although he was currently lost in the maze, I was confident that he would find a way out.
After careful consideration, he came up with the "Maruyama-style lecture style," which includes "short exercises based on learning implementation theory," "classroom textbooks he created himself," and "curriculum structured according to each student's level of proficiency," to enable students to acquire skills and work as professionals.
In January 2016, Maruyama finally took to the stage at Monosasu Juku.
Maybe it was because I was nervous, but I was stammering and reading my lines monotonously.
However, by the second and third days, as the students go through more and more lectures, they no longer stumble or read monotone lines, and the students' abilities rapidly improve thanks to Maruyama's "lecture style," the culmination of his blood, sweat, and tears.
I felt relieved, knowing that both Maruyama and the students were safe now.
At the same time, I felt a sense of relief and a little bit of loneliness.
One graduate of Kamiyama Monosasu Juku has expressed interest in joining the company, saying, "I really wanted to work at Monosasu because it is a company with wonderful staff like Mr. Maruyama, so I applied to join the company."
Until then, Maruyama had been just "an engineer" (this may be the wrong way of putting it), but it was a huge change for him to become respected and admired by others as a professional.
As a front-end engineer, he maintains an unchanging attitude towards acquiring new skills, and when necessary, he paves his own way to change - that's the young man named Tomoyuki Maruyama.
At first, I would just read everything I said, but now I can speak well.
Maruyama Tomoyuki remains the same, yet changes.
He is now working in a new role as a team leader at Coding Factory, where he is engaged in a variety of tasks. There are many things he is doing for the first time, so he may be feeling lost again.
But it's okay because I continue to read up on front-end information and pave my own way to change.
Maruyama, from now on too, will continue to make the right choices for yourself about what should remain unchanged and what should change, and become a fine front-end engineer.