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How to market yourself as a developer (according to a marketer turned developer!)
🎙 About the episode
Meet Stefi Rosca 🇷🇴🇪🇸. Stefi worked as a marketer but couldn't ignore her passion for tech anymore! Using Scrimba and other resources, Stefi learned to code online and now works at Adevinta - a company almost everyone in Spain knows. Believe it or not, when she first applied, they ignored her! It was only through her perseverance (following up and connecting with people in the company) that Stefi earned this prestigious opportunity. In this episode, you'll learn how meetups gave Stefi the connections and confidence she needed to find success.
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⏰ Timestamps
- Introduction (0:00)
- Stefi’s experience doing a mock React interview with Scrimba (01:30)
- Transitioning from marketing to development (02:46)
- Working at a company all your friends and family recognise 🤩 (06:41)
- Recurse center (07:34)
- Code Bar (09:51)
- How meetups impacted Stefi’s career success (12:29)
- Navigating meetups as an introvert (13:45)
- Challenges transitioning from marketing to coding (15:14)
- How to market yourself as a developer, according to a developer (20:04)
- Stefi’s EPIC story about how she got a job at Adevinta (25:49)
🧰 Resources mentioned