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Thatâs right - itâs the Monzo Staff Weekly Q&A! We wonât stop cuz we canât stop.
But first, you better be up to speed. Check out all previous Q&As below!
This week, the Hot Coral Hot Seatâ˘ď¸ belongs to⌠Kieran McHugh, Backend Engineer! (@kieranmch)
Kieran recently was part of the team building IFTTT support for Monzo, which has now launched and is awesome! Heâs now working on building product features around Monzo With Friends.
Fun fact about Kieran, heâs played piano since he was 7!
His favourite thing about working for Monzo?
âBeing the least intelligent engineer in the company and being able to learn so much from others â
(his own words, just for the record!!!)
Alright folks, you know how this works. Questions in! Kieran will be here later in the week to answer them!
Do you find the strong imperative focus in Go to be limiting or frustrating? Context - Iâm about to start a job involving Go but I generally find functional solutions more intuitive and composable
how hard / easy was it to get approval for spending extra time on IFTTT after the initial âmonzo dayâ (??) and does it get put to a ( management ? ) vote or one person decide yes run with this ?
From what I know, Monzo is the first bank to link up with IFTTT. How does it feel to be on the forefront of making banking relevant for the modern age?
If you were given the opportunity to draft a development roadmap of Monzo features/imrpvements/etc (tech debt?) on which you would be working on for the next 12 months, what would that roadmap roughly look like?
Does this include fixing the problem with bill splitting whereby Monzo.me bill splits are not reflected properly in targets/summary spending?
Also, just curious as to what makes you say youâre the âleast intelligent engineerâ? Apart from modesty, is it to do with anything such as formal education level, qualifications, university, work experience, age, etc.
I remember you saying on here earlier in the year you were stepping up from forum-goer to Monzo graduate intern, and on Twitter you very recently wrote that you had passed your probation and are now a fully-fledged member of the Monzo team.
Firstly, on behalf of the hundreds of forum-goers who would love to be a part of the team but donât have the talent, motivation or the right circumstances to follow that dream⌠Massive congratulations!
How did you âsell yourselfâ to Monzo to get in the door and into such a crucial position at such a young age? Do you have a really top degree and loads of demonstrable experience in the field or did you persuade them to hire you based on your ideas etc? Maybe you knew the team personally from hackathons or meet ups?
Would be interesting to know how you suddenly went from Clark Kent to Superman in a matter of months.
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Whatâs your favorite piece to play? 
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