Tech Girl Magic

Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Evelyn, an incredibly ambitious and determined future software engineer looking to land her first job at a Big Tech company. Evelyn had excellent questions about tech that I think anyone looking to enter the industry should be asking. Below are the questions and my responses. This post is a living, breathing blog post which I will be updating all the time.

What are your main steps into getting into those companies. I know you stated it in our meeting but I wanted a refresher.

— Evelyn (@EvelynsNet) June 1, 2021

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A Black woman’s experience in the Stanford Computer Science Major

Tech Girl Magic

This is a re post from a blog post I originally wrote on Jul 20, 2015 about my personal experiences while in the drudges of the Stanford computer science major. Enjoy, and always stay encouraged!

As a Black female CS major at Stanford, I hate walking around the halls of the Gates Computer Science Building.

It’s not because the Gates interior reminds me of 1970 even though it was built in the 1990s. It’s not because of the memories I have of CS107's Heap Allocator turning me into a...

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