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0:48 - Peek into Ugo's bio
1:45 - What remote work is like at Google
4:12 - What Ugo's experience has been so far at Google that's quite different from other companies
7:26 - Most challenging experience so far in Ugo's career
9:24 - What Ugo considers are some ways to create an innovative environment both as an engineer and an employee
12:42 -  Best advice Ugo has gotten as an engineer
14:15 - How Ugo handles imposter syndrome
21:28 - Ugo's thoughts on making the decision between working at a FAANG or a startup
25:54 - Ugo's advise on getting a job at a FAANG and acing the technical interview
29:05 -  Two truths and a lie - Susan vs Ugo!

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Ugo's GO-TO resources for preparing for his FAANG interviews

• Non-technical topics
• System Design
• Coding interview

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0:29 -  Welcome, Welcome

0:37 - Reasons why people switch careers

2:15 - My transitioning-into-tech story

3:40 - 4 things to consider when making the switch

• 3:55 - Look before you leap, figure out why you need the switch
• 5:16 - Research, research, research
• 7:00 - Learn how to learn
• 7:59 - Network

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1:30 - What does accessibility mean?

2:00 - Web accessibility

2:50 - Different types of disabilities

3:52 - The difference between web performance and web accessibility 

4:41 - Why should you care about accessibility?

6:09 - Best practices to follow in building with accessibility in mind

9:50 - Tools to analyze the accessibility of your website

• Accessibility developer tools
•  Axe
• Colour contrast analyzer
• Wave evaluation tool
• Jaws and NVDA - supported by windows

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0:33 - How everyone feels about slow websites?

2:00 - What is web performance?

2:39 - How can you tell the performance of a website?

3:11 - Why do some sites feel heavy or sluggish

4:15 - Why should you care about your web performance

6:12 - What can I do to ensure a better web performance?

10:06 - Tools to check your web performance

• Page speed insight
•  Firefox network monitor 
•  Performance monitor  
• Chrome’s lighthouse

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2:25 - Welcome Yetty!

3:00 - Yetty's experience leaving her 9 to 5 and heading back to the classroom

6:00 - Reasons Yetty went to grad school

9:52- Some things she would do differently if she had to start all over

13:58 - Difference between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotics

18:35 - Some factors to consider in deciding to go for a Master's degree or not in the AI/ML space  + Other alternatives.

23:34 - Tips for landing a job while still in grad school

28:36 -  Two truth and a lie - Yetty vs Susan!

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0:26 - Welcome, Tolu and Stephen!!

0:52 - About Tolu

1:17 - About Stephen

2:04 -  What is Imposter Syndrome?

2:31 - Tolu's first encounter with Imposter Syndrome in tech

4:12 -  Stephen's experience with Imposter syndrome in tech

7:31 - Signs that make you identify  that you have imposter syndrome

13:41 - Different perceived expressions of the imposter syndrome 

19:12 - How can you deal with imposter syndrome?

27:31 - Tolu's interest in Krav Maga

29:58 - Stephen's "passion" for Massage therapy

36:55 - A word of advice!

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0:22 - Welcome to the Penultimate episode!

1:03 - Question 1:  What times do I reach out to ask for help or struggle with a problem on my own?

03:31 - Question 2: How do I remain relevant in the tech space?

4:51 - Question 3: How do I deal with a difficult co-worker in my team?

6:02 - Question 4: What are some of the mistakes I might be making as a newbie in tech?

• Jumping right into a task without properly clarifying requirements, or thinking about maintainability, scalability, or performance.
• Always waiting to be told what to do
• Communication
• Compromising on your health because of work
• Being emotionally attached to your code

Dealing with burnout

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0:20 - Welcome Welcome!

0:30 - Who is Tosin Akinbitu?

• Final year student at the Department of Zoology, Obafemi Awolowo University
• An education advocate who has worked with different NGOs on kids' education and youth empowerment.
• Has an NGO called Changemakers Youth Empowerment Initiative which  focuses on quality education

1:50 - Her first experience with coding

4:02 - How meeting people for help and google played parts in building knowledge

6:45 - How mentorship programs have made an impact in her learning process

8:36 - Her most interesting project built so far 😱

11:50 - Resources that helped her with Data Science

12:50 - Challenges she faced when starting out

• Network and Power issues

15:20 - Top three(ish) picks

• Time travel
• Watching horror movies in dark rooms 👻

16:52 - Last words
 

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0:22 - Welcome!!

0:33 - Short recap from last week

0:56 - Please share your feedback about the podcast in this google form

1:10 - SQL Injection

• Injecting malicious SQL statements into the database through the user input
• 2:23 - How to prevent
  • Treat user input as untrusted - Filter and validate

2:43 - Security misconfiguration

• Happens when a part of your web application is defenseless against attack
  • Using default credentials
  • Allowing users to have access to information about the application through the stack trace
• 4:18 - How to prevent
  • Don't overshare information
  • Have a minimal footprint for the different components of your application
  • Don't keep default accounts, files, or directories

5:14 - Broken authentication

• Happens when an attacker masquerades as a user through. different means
  • Credential stuffing: using known breached accounts
  • Automated attacks: using random credentials
  • Default(lazy) credentials
  • Stolen session Ids
• 8:46 - How to prevent
  • The web server could be used to create unique session ids different from the ones created by the browser
  • Add a limit to failed logins
  • Muti-factor authentication
  • Password complexity

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• 4:34 - How does it happen?
• 8:24 - Ways to prevent it
  • Filter and sanitize user input(Escaping)
  • Use appropriate response headers

• 12:05 - How does it happen?
• 13:47 - Who is vulnerable?
• 14:34 - Ways to prevent it
  • CSRF tokens
  • Validate request origin 

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