Renée - Part 1: Maths Teacher to Software Engineer, CodeFirstGirls degree & BlackCodher Bootcamp

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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 @CodeFirstGirls1 and @blackcodher5802 @CodingBlackFemales #bootcamp at the same time!

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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