Choosing the Right Job with Cassidy Williams
Software Sessions
English - November 21, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow To Education Technology software development software engineering Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Cassidy is a developer and instructor at React Training and the Director of Outreach at cKeys, a Seattle based organization that promotes learning electronics through mechanical keyboards. She previously worked at Amazon, CodePen, L4 Digital, Clarifai, and Venmo. However, she's probably best known for promoting diversity in tech, creating cool mechanical keyboards, and making memes.
Cassidy
Personal Website
@cassidoo
Current Work
React Training
cKeys
Keyboards
Follow your dreams (literally): How I designed and launched the Official Scrabble Keyboard
Astrolokeys (Collaboration with Amy Wibowo)
Notes App
Bear
Resources for new conference speakers
@CallbackWomen
You've got this!
Theme music is 12:30 AM by Crystal Cola.
Timestamps
[00:36] Organizing and completing side projects[05:08] Choosing and quitting jobs[09:03] Joining React Training[12:31] Why Amazon was a poor fit and figuring out what's important[17:46] Leaving a company with a smooth transition[20:38] Sharing knowledge with your team[22:39] Working at an agency and asking the right questions[29:56] Teaching and learning React[38:29] How to start teaching and conference speaking