Booting Up

The most inspirational episode of the season with Charity Garcia who is a Software Engineer at The New York Times and graduated from Fullstack Academy in 2017.  

Laura Weaver started at Hack Reactor and has worked at Yelp & Slack. Her latest venture is at an exciting new startup called WhatNot. Some of the things we dived into include:

8:24 Why she chose the bootcamp route to get into tech

11:56 Freaking out coming out of bootcamp

13:40 iOS is harder than web development?

18:26 Searching for iOS jobs vs. Web Dev jobs

22:46 Why companies actually hire junior devs

25:32 The key to gaming the job search

27:16 Joining an unstructured startup within Yelp

33:41 Leaving Yelp because of it’s stock

37:03 Interview process for second job at Slack

44:25 Dealing with bug reports from the CEO of Twitter

45:38 Returning to startup world at WhatNot

51:07 Unique tactic for dealing with impostor syndrome

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9:21 How to get support from manager on transitioning into tech

14:40 What the QA role is like

19:05 Lessons of the first year as a Software Developer

23:49 Interview process after a cold DM from Google recruiter

26:37 How she prepared for the technical interview

31:24 Life at Google vs. working at a startup

36:35 Learning new languages on the job

39:30 How work changes when you go remote

43:17 Game plan to get hired out of a bootcamp today

44:52 What to do in your first year as an engineer

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Jessica Gaddis is a Product Designer at Twitter that taught her way into the field. She worked at Netflix and did some pro-bono work too. Listen in on her secrets to learning:

6:30 How she discovered product design and started learning

13:38 Why she didn’t go to a bootcamp (but still used one)

19:28 Getting experience without a job

22:38 Product design is impossible without collaboration

23:56 Real-life design is different from those listicles

29:45 Process for kicking off her job search

33:14 The structure of tech company’s like Netflix teams

38:16 Finding peer mentors to make the first year easier

45:50 Difference between designing internally vs. for clients

52:40 What she would do if she was trying to break into product design today

54:35 What designers need to do in their first year of their career

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Skye Free went from sociology and sales to tech. It wasn't easy but she did some freelancing with a heavy lean on her network. Listen in for how she did it:

11:04 - Starting off her career as a freelancer 

22:21 - What were her multiple roles in her first company

26:12 - How is it to be a women in an engineering position

30:46 - Biggest factor in staying in a company for a long time

37:40 - Difference between working in a small or a big company 

43:41 - How important networking is and taking care of your mental and physical health. 

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Raymond is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Tubi. He started at Flatiron School and moved his way through working with Will.I.Am, working for $300 a month in Ecuador, and a host of other gigs. We dive into a ton of interesting topics around bootcamps and learning like:

11:00 - Switching to a new career path 

17:20 - Starting a bootcamp 

19:44 - A better way to teach 

28:15 - What it means to be a great student

37:46 - The downside of bootcamps

49:45 - Difference between being a junior or a senior level

54:19 - Best way to present yourself in an interview

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Despite getting a Bachelors's in Biology from Stanford, Samuel never went into that field. Instead, he played squash professionally until 2017 when he decided to enroll at Thinkful. He leveraged his network to get a shot at a Twitter job and snagged a position with his hard work. Listen in on what happened during the first years and lessons you can learn from him.  

7:02 Why he chose Thinkful to learn software engineering 

12:35 Starting at Thinkful 

16:23 Mindset of being a bootcamp grad 

19:04 Landing an interview with Twitter 

23:06 First year in a new job 

27:50 Going from solo projects to giant teams 

33:15 It's ok to ask for help 

35:40 Biggest difference between Year 1 & Year 2 of being a dev

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Clement Kao is a Product Manager at Blend and Co-Founder at Product Manager HQ. He's one of the smartest people in the Product Management field. Some topics we go over in this episode include:

• What is Product Management? 
• How he accidentally became a Product Manager 
• How to level up once you get your first job
• The inspiration behind launching & growing Product Manager HQ
• What Product Managers WISH developers and designers knew
• His gameplan if he were job searching today 
• Overcoming impostor syndrome to publish 3 books  

Feel free to connect with Clement on LinkedIn or Twitter (@ClementKao1). For more product management tips, check out www.productmanagerhq.com where his articles are posted.  

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