Join Bailey, Mark, and Jeannie as they discuss their strategies for finding their first roles as Software Developers. They will share their own experiences as well as provide advice to those looking for that first dev job.

Jeannie & Jesse chat with Bailey Diveley, Senior Engineer at Ibotta and 1808 BE Alum, about her past life in the nonprofit world, her future career pivots, learning, metacognition, and a special surprise for long time listeners at the end. Bailey recommended the book Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley and Maybe you Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb.

You can connect with Bailey in the #turing-jcs slack channel or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/baileydiveley/.

Jesse chats with Senior Engineer and 1412 Turing Alum, DJ Greenfield about the early days of Turing, mentorship, job hunting, Turing super powers, privilege, capitalism, AI, and other topics.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dj-greenfield/

Jeannie & Jesse discuss partnership work at Turing with Partnership Manager Robyn Purvin. The conversation covers how Robyn joined the Turing team, how she advocates on behalf of Turing students and alumni, software salaries, tech conferences and other topics.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robyn-purvin/

Host Jesse Spevack speaks with 1708 FE alum and current Googler Katie Scruggs about her Turing story, career, and work with the Joan Clarke Society.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiescruggs

Host Jesse Spevack chats with 1608 BE Alum, former Turing instructor, and current Stripe engineer Ali Schlereth about her Turing story, teaching, parenthood, and making careers in software.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alischlereth 

Blog: https://medium.com/@ali_schlereth

Host Jesse Spevack talks with Corey Carter, 2006 BE Alum, former assistant principal and software engineer at Handshake. They commiserate about the challenges of the world of education, Corey’s Turing story, his work at Handshake, his career aspirations, and rugby. They did not mention that Corey’s partner, Anhnhi Tran is a current student!

You can connect with Corey at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carter-codes/

Host Jesse chats with Tan Doan about his Turing story, his experience as a student during the early days of Turing, his career, his move to big tech, and the TAPIDA community.

Show Notes: 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/turingjobshadow - sign up to lead a job shadow https://www.signupgenius.com/go/turingwhatsadev - sign up to lead what’s a dev https://www.signupgenius.com/go/turingmockinterviews - sign up to lead mock interviews

Cohosts Jeannie and Jesse chat with Maia Stone, 1608 FE Alum and Director of Engineering at Uplight. Maia shares her Turing story and high velocity career trajectory and then turns to coaching the co hosts on their own careers.

Show Notes:

https://conscious.is/ - Conscious Leadership The Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson

Cohosts Jeannie, Jesse, Mark and Marshall explore some of the themes that have spanned multiple episodes including changing our lives, the future of software development, taking risks, authenticity, and slack bugs.

This will be the last episode of the year, happy holidays!

Book mention: Average is Over by Tyler Cowen.