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.  

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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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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Ryan Jones founded a startup called Pixbi in 2015 and realized that tech was the way. He enrolled in Hack Reactor engineering program and then worked his way into a Product Manager role. Learn how you can wiggle your way into Product Management – no matter what bootcamp program you did.

Abhi Bhattacharya went from graduating CareerFoundry’s UX Design program to Product Designer at Facebook. Along the way, he made stops at CARFAX, Capital One, and other companies which gave him unique insight into how different design teams work. If you want to know what UX Designers do, listen in.

Chloe Condon is a Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft and graduated from Hackbright in 2017. She got pushed into tech by accident but has now helped to touch so many lives. Hear her story and lessons in this fun episode.

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

Feel free to connect with Raymond on LinkedIn or Twitter (@rgan0). 

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