Empowering Black Women in Tech: Shaundai's Insightful Discussion on Self-Promotion and Career Growth
summary
A senior software engineer at Netflix recounts a career switch from sales to coding, claiming soft skills like persuasion and resilience made landing a role using React, TypeScript and a federated GraphQL stack possible. Advice centers on self-promotion and to shoot your shot: apply even without perfection. A TypeScript course is being built with Egghead/TS for JS. The transition works—hired by Netflix—and the talk gives concrete interview and branding tactics rather than abstract platitudes.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Welcome and guest introduction
- 1:04Shaundai’s background and career
- 27:32Highlights from transferable skills talk
- 31:48Self-promotion and career growth
- 37:05Diversity and authenticity in tech
- 53:46Tech course collaboration announcement
- 59:26Q&A and closing remarks
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