- Her journey into Product Management and her role as Product Manager at Capital One

- Balancing between product management and technical product development

- Diversity and inclusion in the work place at a large company

- The hard problems that are solved in product management

- Branding and content creation for yourself vs a company

In our conversation, we get into...

- Her previous role as an iOS Engineer at Buzzfeed

- Her current role as a Senior iOS Engineer with the New York Times

- The obstacles around technical interviews and how to deal with them

- Imposter syndrome and how your work environment matters in combatting it

- How she navigated WWDC this year with so many new features being released

- Diversity and inclusion in multiple areas like the workplace and bootcamps

In our conversation, we get into...

- Her journey from working as a property management assistant to becoming a software engineer

- How two coding bootcamps brought about two TOTALLY different experiences for her

- Taking advantage of the mentorship opportunities in a fresh new position, and much more

- How to approach refactoring old code

- Introspection and change during a global pandemic

Highlights of the show:

- Beginning of her tech journey

- Navigating that journey while supporting a family

- Winning a group hackathon while using a beat up laptop used to remotely connect to her desktop (dopest thing I've heard in a while!)

- How a startup weekend hackathon was pivotal in her growth personally and professionally

- The first and second iteration of her job search movement, and the important things she learned from both experiences

- How she methodically approached her job search to find the specific role that she wanted

This was such a great interview, I hope you all enjoy!

Welcome to episode 2 of It's Not The Pipeline Podcast! I'm hoping that these conversations that are full of great advice, tips, and techniques can help you move forward as you continue your personal journey in tech, science, business, or anywhere else.

We talk about a range of really interesting topics focused on:

- Learning to deal with failure

- The inspiration behind his two startups

- Dealing with failure as an entrepreneur

- The alarming lack of mental health data on entrepreneurs of color, and what he did to fix that

Welcome to the very first episode of It's Not The Pipeline Podcast! I'm so excited to finally bring this show to you all, I've been working really hard to make sure this show focuses on helping our community, the underrepresented.

I'm hoping that these conversations that are full of great advice, tips, and techniques can help you move forward as you continue your personal journey in tech, science, business, or anywhere else

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Today on the show I'm speaking with Mark Thompson. Mark is a software engineer, a family man, an entrepreneur, an award winning university instructor, as well as Developer Advocate on the Angular Team at Google.

We talk about a range of really interesting topics focused on:

- Raising children as a busy developer

- His app "Totally Strong" that he build in a matter of 30 days (DAMN) and how he did it

- Techniques for staying productive by actually taking breaks

- Tips on learning new things and how they can be incorporated into leveling yourself up

This was such a great interview, and I'm really grateful to have Mark on as the first guest of this show.

Here's to the first episode and to many more episodes afterward!

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- Website: www.marktechson.com

- Twitter: @marktechson

- Youtube: MarkTechson

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- Website: www.intppod.com

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