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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  

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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



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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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