#107: Rich Smith - How A College Dropout Became A Senior Engineer at Netflix
Breaking Into Startups11 Joulu 2018

#107: Rich Smith - How A College Dropout Became A Senior Engineer at Netflix

Announcements: Watch the video recording of this episode on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rg8SHeq1Ns Rich Smith is a Senior UI engineer at Netflix but did you know this was his 17th job? Today, he talks about how he started hustling as early as 4th grader and eventually discovered his interest in coding! On the episode he covers a lot of topics as what it was like growing up with role models who were athletes, which a lot of us could relate with. And how not until he dropped out of college that Rich stumbled upon coding and later realized that this could be a viable career path! Rich’s journey to become a Senior Engineer at Netflix was certainly not an easy feat, but he lays out the roadmap on this episode that anyone can follow to attain the same results. Hint: it doesn’t involve a computer science degree :)

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#28: Rodney Urquhart - How a 16-year-old High School Dropout became a Software Engineer at Slack

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#27: Jotaka Eaddy - From Senior Advisor at NAACP to Head of Government Affairs at a Tech Startup

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#26: Charles Pridgen - Account Executive at Loggly & Founder of BPN

#26: Charles Pridgen - Account Executive at Loggly & Founder of BPN

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#24: Divine - The journey from going in and out of prison to Breaking Into Tech

#24: Divine - The journey from going in and out of prison to Breaking Into Tech

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#22: Idalin Bobe - Community Organizer who broke into Tech and became a Tech Activist

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#23: Rita Henderson - Who broke into startups as a Teen Mom

#23: Rita Henderson - Who broke into startups as a Teen Mom

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