Crack the Coding Interview! Talk by Google Women Techmakers Scholar on Method Pro
Visit of Google Women Techmakers Scholar, Chandler Beyer made 2 week of Method Pro stay in minds. Being Method Pro intern at KIMEP gave privilege to listen to Yale-NUS College computer science student share her experience not only at Google, but also practical guidelines to pass technical interviews. That was a great start for the IT Internship, as many participants could get the idea how to build the career in IT and if that is what they search for. Partnership of KIMEP together with Method Coding School, organizers of Summer IT Internship might become also one of the fruitful ones, as future information system students might consider our university as the good place to start.
Chandler Beyer gave interns idea how to be a “Googly” person, stopping more on characteristics every company seeks for at technical interviews, balancing it with practical core skills every ‘want to be successful’ computer person should know. She explained the tech interview by role-playing-live interview demonstration, which summed up points as:
- Verbalise thoughts. Even if you understand how you do it, interviewer needs to know you understand that and able to explain
- Do in depth research about company you applying
- Be kind/ be humble. Do not worry to ask questions if you are in a right way and do not forget to thank them
Lastly, Chandler has worked with Girls Who Code (GWC) as a Diversity and Inclusion Liaison, getting more than 400 young women involved in coding and GWC. She highlighted some stereotypes and common problems of women in technology and shares the main mission of GWC: ‘to close gender gap in technology’. To remind, Method Coding School is also promoting girls in Kazakhstan into programming. One of the bright examples are the 10-11 years old winners of Technovation.
We want to thank Method Coding School and KIMEP for giving interns of Method Pro opportunity to listen to such spectacular people’s talk!
For more information about Internship & IT School, go to the website: https://method.kz/almaty