Career Advice for New Electrical and Software Engineers The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

What should you look for in your first engineering job? How do you bridge high
school, college, internships, and then finally full-time work? Is college worth
it for the tech industry? Engineer and developer Omar Leyva gives advice on all
this and more, speaking as an Android developer and computer engineer at Tile, a
consumer electronics company in San Mateo, California. He also describes how his
very first experience programming was C++ in college, how being a son of
immigrants affected his views on college, and why people and company culture are
so important for evaluating a job. Related to this episode: • Tile and its app:
https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/ • Electrical Engineering department at UCLA
(University of California, Los Angeles): https://www.ee.ucla.edu/ • Cisco,
networking technology company: https://www.cisco.com/ • Sandisk, computer
technology company: https://www.sandisk.com/ • Netapp, data services company:
https://www.netapp.com • IEEE ("I Triple E"), professional society for
electrical engineering: https://www.ieee.org/ • Center for Excellence in
Engineering Diversity at UCLA: https://www.ceed.ucla.edu/ Subscribe and find
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