Booting Up Rod Danan
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The live show where we talk to Bootcamp Grads & self-taught techies working at the best companies. You'll learn about how to get your first job and how to stand out once you get there. Every episode is filmed live on our YouTube channel where you can ask guests questions yourself. For more career resources, join our community of bootcamp grads at prentus.co/bootcamp-grads.
Podcast hosted by Rod Danan, Founder and CEO of Prentus.
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Overcoming adversity, recovering from injury, and secrets to getting offers with Charity Garcia
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.
1:32 What her plan was before diving into tech
8:43 The fateful car crash that set her back
14:02 How to learn with a weakened memory
18:50 4 hour commutes to Fullstack every day
21:20 Why giving up was not an option
23:23 Starting her job search with a kid in hand
27:53 The secret that got her 10 job offers
31:55 Finding the mentor that propelled her career
35:33 Biggest surprise of the first year on the job
38:14 Leaving Toast to start her second job
41:56 What she works on at The New York Times
45:45 Informing POC about opportunities in tech
49:18 Final questions
Follow Charity on Twitter and Instagram at @charinreellife or find her on LinkedIn! She's always happy to help.
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11: Bootcamp to Engineering Manager in 3 Years with Vivek Tumrukota of UserLeap
Vivek is a Senior Software Engineer at UserLeap. He first spent 3 years in Technical Sales at Texas Instruments before joining Hack Reactor. Then, he joined the startup WorkSpan and became a manager in just 3 years. Listen in to gain some secrets to level up your career.
6:08 Selling to startups in Silicon Valley (environment is key!)
12:04 Surrounding yourself with people that will lift you up
18:28 Bootcampers are always extra motivated
21:07 The process of landing a first job
27:14 Startups the perfect fit for career transitioners?
35:56 How an old relationship led to his first job
41:29 The BIGGEST factors in getting promoted to manager so quickly
46:28 What he looked for when hiring junior engineers
51:56 Why he left management to code again
54:50 Final Questions
Find Vivek on Twitter or LinkedIn if you want to hear more from him!
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10: iOS vs. Web Dev, keys to the job search, & fixing Slack bugs for Twitter CEO with Laura Weaver
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: Company sponsored career switching, Google interviews, & remote life with Danielle Katz
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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8: Self-teaching Product Design, pro-bono projects, and life at Netflix with Jessica Gaddis of Twitter
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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7: Networking to get hired, being a woman in tech, & starting with freelancing with Skye Free
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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