I’ve been playing around with some educational materials on data structures for several weeks now, and while the concept of recursion is not difficult to explain on the surface, understanding how to implement it has proven more challenging. I came across a decent explanation over the weekend that I’m going to try to break down below.
When I met with my career coach yesterday, I was feeling less than generous about my networking efforts thus far. Two weeks after my job search declaration, I had no concrete leads on job openings that I might qualify for, let alone anyone at those companies to serve as a referral. In light of that, I’ve decided to make a list of as many tangible gains I can think of from those meetings to remind myself that 1) progress has been made, and 2) broaden my mindset when it comes to defining networking.
Hey there! I’ve officially declared my job search to Flatiron’s career services team, so in the coming weeks I’ll be writing regularly as I navigate the path to getting my first position as a software engineer. The posts will be a mix of reflections on various aspect of the search process as well as discussions of new information I stumble across and problems I encounter when building projects. For my first post however, I want to look back at the final app I built for the Flatiron curriculum a pick apart a small-but-important bug I encountered.
A few years ago, I was having dinner with a colleague in San Francisco who was working for a tech company by day and and freelancing with the local music community at night. Over the course of our conversation, she told me about her experience applying for jobs in the tech sector and how she was able to recast her musical training as marketable skills that made her a competitive hiring prospect. I thought it would be good to revisit a few highlights of this conversation and articulate these interdisciplinary connections in order to reference them while working on my resume, preparing for cultural interviews, etc.
We’ve reached the end. Or at least, the end of this stage of the journey.