2: Going from Pro Sports to Engineer at Twitter with Sam Gould
Description
Despite getting a Bachelors's in Biology from Stanford, Samuel never went into that field. Instead, he played squash professionally until 2017 when he decided to enroll at Thinkful. He leveraged his network to get a shot at a Twitter job and snagged a position with his hard work. Listen in on what happened during the first years and lessons you can learn from him.
7:02 Why he chose Thinkful to learn software engineering
12:35 Starting at Thinkful
16:23 Mindset of being a bootcamp grad
19:04 Landing an interview with Twitter
23:06 First year in a new job
27:50 Going from solo projects to giant teams
33:15 It's ok to ask for help
35:40 Biggest difference between Year 1 & Year 2 of being a dev
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