Date: 9th August 2022
Renée-Louise - Part 1: Maths Teacher to Software Engineer, Code First Girls Nanodegree & Black Codher
Episode summary**:**
Renée-Louise Nzegbulem is a #SoftwareEngineer
@Beamery. Prior to this, Renée was a Mathematics Teacher after completing her Economics degree, and a year later took a leap of faith into the tech industry.
The serendipities of life landed Renée a fulfilling role at a scale up, as a software engineer. She now specializes in #frontend development, building products for some of the biggest fortune 500 companies in the world.
She talks us through her journey of switching from #teaching to #technology and how joining various communities with likeminded people helped her land an #engineering role within a year, with no formal experience!
She completed both the CodeFirstGirls and Black Codher bootcamps at the same time.
Follow our guest, Renée here: www.instagram.com/blaqbyte www.twitter.com/blaqbyte www.twitter.com/reneelouisedev
Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:30 From maths teacher to engineering 02:00 Finding communities to learn with 03:05 Two coding bootcamps at once?! 04:45 Balancing time between studying and applying 07:11 Learning multiple coding languages at once 08:00 Pressure applying as a non-traditional candidate 09:50 Needing to prove that you belong in tech 11:05 Life as a junior software engineer 12:32 do startups or big corps have more space for juniors? 14:00 Applying for jobs before you're ready
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