Echo

CSESoc Media’s annual Round Table episode! Join Raathan, Sunny, Paul, Angeni, and Ryan as they discuss their first year university experiences, their preconceptions about uni life, how to make friends, and advice for incoming first years. Then for the second half of the episode, they reflect on their time as members of the Media subcommittee, why they chose to join Media, their favourite projects, what’s the deal between the Media and Marketing portfolios, and Media’s place in CSESoc for future years to come.

Interested in a Front-End Engineering position at Canva? Vee Ciputra is a Front End Engineer at Canva who is currently in her last year of Software Engineering at the University of Auckland (UoA)! Vee started out as a Front-End intern at Canva, before getting an offer for a graduate role in April this year. Ryan and Arsham discuss the recruitment process, what it was like interning at Canva, and how she found doing an internship away from her home in Auckland! Vee also co-founded the Developers Society at UoA and discusses the process of building a society from the ground up.

In this episode of the personal project series, Angeni and Julian sit down with former CSE student and ex-CSESoc co-president, Adam Tizzone. Even though he’s recently graduated, Adam has still been actively involved in CSESoc as the project lead for the CSESoc Jobs Board. Adam shares his experiences of working on a student-led software project from inception to completion, as well as the most important things he's learnt along the way.

We’re always on the lookout for more student projects, so if you’ve got something exciting to feature, you can get in touch with us through the email on the CSESoc Media page.

Since the 2021 Director Applications are closing in a week, we've invited some 2020 Directors and the new 2021 Executive Team to sit down and answer some questions the community has sent in! We'll be covering things like the challenges and most rewarding things about being a CSESoc Director, as well as things that we're looking for for the new Directors in 2021!

Applications close at 11:59PM on the 10th of November.

With Exec elections coming up soon, for the third episode of the Getting to Know CSESoc series, Ryan sits down with Co-Presidents Shane and Tammy! They reflect upon the year gone by, their favourite things CSESoc has accomplished this year and what it’s been like running the society during COVID-19. They also chat about the rewarding and challenging aspects of being Co-Presidents as well as giving some advice for next year’s exec team! As always to test how well they know each other, we play a game of ‘How well do you know your fellow co-director?’ (or in this case co-president!)

From Hopper, a classroom queueing platform used across the CSE school, to GDB Tools and Valgrind, which help students decipher their debugging programs, our next Project Showcase guest has worked on an impressive range of projects that make the day-to-day life of a CSE student a little bit easier. Join Angeni and Julian as they chat with CSESoc’s very own Grievance Officer Tom Kunc, to find out what motivates him, his advice for students looking to start their own projects (including perhaps an invitation into his DMs!), and whether Hopper might have anything to do with Minecraft.

In the second episode of the Getting to Know CSESoc series, Ryan and Jen sit down with CompClub directors Liv and Tim! CompClub is one of the most unique CSESoc portfolios - they run computing workshops for keen high school students and recruit mentor volunteers from the CSESoc community! They talk about what it’s like teaching high school students to code, the lessons and experiences learnt from running these workshops, and some their favourite CSESoc memories - from peer mentoring to first-year camp and road trips! As always we put to the test how well the two co-directors know each other in a game of ‘How well do you know your fellow co-director?’

In this exciting episode of the Echo podcast, Ryan and Raathan sit down with Canva Global Lead and Product Leader, Laura Haines! Having started out as a Software Engineer at JP Morgan, and then as a Product Manager at numerous companies before coming to Canva, Laura shares her wisdom on finding one’s career path! They discuss what it’s like working at Canva, the transition from Engineering to Product Management, as well as what it’s been like working across the globe!

In this episode of Echo, join Paul and Arsham as they talk to Daphne Shen, who's currently working at the LiDAR startup Baraja as the Chief of Staff to the CTO! They'll be discussing her study and work experience, delving into her past venture V-KAIWA, as well as chatting about her current role at Baraja!

Music by Octopus Orange