Technical Coaching Live | Refactoring interview prep

What does technical coaching look like in practice? This video contains actual footage - it shows Emily Bache coaching Lauren Swersky. Lauren is preparing for a job interview and taking this opportunity to train her javascript refactoring skills. The session is presented together with additional commentary from Emily about what she's doing as a coach.

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00:00 - Session introduction
00:38 - About Lauren
01:46 - Session start
03:08 - Identifying a long function
05:18 - Selecting the right code to extract
06:23 - Doing extract function - getEqualScore
11:10 - Backing out & returning to green
12:40 - Next refactoring target is identified
14:29 - Arguments & return value
16:05 - The value of running tests often
17:02 - Reading very bad code
18:29 - A better name than applesauce
20:04 - Short retroperspective