From Finance To Front End
summary
Career path moves from finance into front end with concrete milestones: learns Python, HTML/CSS, JavaScript and React, takes a Google front-end nanodegree where 2000 of 30,000 selected for phase one, wins a Firebase travel grant as one of 120 women, completes a month-long freelance job and built an e-commerce site and a web app that ship, contributes to open source, attends GDD and Firebase Summit, applies to 100+ companies and is shortlisted by 20, then accepts an enterprise role at Heroku.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:55Quote
- 2:00School
- 6:35Internship
- 14:45Advice
- 15:21Job Hunting
- 18:50Conclusion
- 20:39Why Computer Science
- 22:10Family Support
- 24:16Business Analytics
- 25:09Financial Modeling
- 26:14Outro
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