Switch Up: How to Switch Careers to Become a Ruby Engineer
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Background shifts to concrete steps and outcomes: built a rails app in one day and deployed it on Heroku, completes an apprenticeship at thoughtbot, apprenticeships and RailsBridge lead to TA work at G school and jobs at goost spot check doing field data collection where pairing becomes full time. Recommends Pomodoro, hackathons for pairing, GitHub and open source contributions for visibility, networked hires rather than resume hits, and notes immersive six month boot camps and a saturating junior market.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:19Switching Careers To be a Ruby Developer
- 1:01WOMEN WHO CODE
- 1:46CREATING & INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION OF DEVELOPERS & DESIGNERS
- 6:31collaborate
- 7:11Dealing with People.
- 7:30build your brand
- 7:56Social community
- 8:19People hire people they know
- 11:55shoot high, but don't be afraid to take a job
- 14:24Connections go a long
- 14:55Breaking down stereotypes.
- 15:28What makes a good developer?
- 15:42Stack Overflow Reputation?
- 17:18Embrace different backgrounds.
- 17:47We have the power to make change.
- 18:03Sarah Mei and Brandon Hay's podcast
- 19:04embrace that you are bad at this
- 20:18Imposter Syndrome
- 20:51Embrace your background
- 22:00Don't apply for your dream job if you haven't done a technical interview before.
- 22:24mentors can help
- 22:55know you can do it
- 25:01Figure out what's going to work for you.
- 25:33Competition
- 25:45Market saturation
- 26:28Questions?
