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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