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This is an episode of Life of Nuba Live show.

And today my guest is a loose Sita who is now a full time writer and used to be a senior software engineer at work previously on Facebook.

And she's gonna tell us in this video about perjury an inch attack into becoming a software engineer at use.

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Great, eh?

How are you doing today?

I'm great.

I'm so excited to be here.

Thank you for having Yeah, I'm super excited to have you.

How's your How's your Rico world?

It's been great.

Way just got back from Japan about go.

And so we are.

So I've been doing basically my first week as a full time writer.

Well, has been great, but also kind of weird because I just came from vacation and my husband is still on vacation because he doesn't go back to work until tomorrow.

Oh, so it's like my vacation and my working What's my life now?

Except how do you feel about beautiful time, writer?

That you?

I mean, you have to don't have to go to work in.

Yeah, I like it.

I do feel like I'm gonna need structure.

And so, like, one of my chores for the week.

I'm not sure, but like tasks is to start researching Coworking faces.

And I have a couple that I thinking about.

I'm going to figure that out, but it's like I'm a creature of habit, like structure.

And so I'm like, if I if I'm just, like in my pajamas every day, I think I'm gonna go crazy.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Great.

So tell me a little more about how you got into tech.

So I've been doing tech seriously for about 10 years.

I started when I was in high school.

I took an AP computer science class.

I have done some coating before in middle school, but it was like baby coding where, you know, it was only hope runtime revolution.

We were dealing with cards and, like, buttons, and they had actions, and it was fun.

And it kind of is what got me excited.

But it wasn't until I school when I started taking mule coding classes.

Yeah, and I and I likes it right away, but I kind of didn't think it was.

I think I was good at it.

And then it took another year or two before I sort of feel like, OK, this actually what I think I want to do.

And so in college, I started taking classes more seriously.

And the rest is history.

Yeah, awesome.

So you've got you got into college studying computer science, but I wasn't sure if I was going to do it for sure.

I took it.

And I took an injury class my first semester, but I didn't necessarily think I wanted to major in it.

I did end up majoring in it, but I also majored in literary art.

So ended up doing both things.

So Wow.

So you didn't literally arts while you were doing computer science at school?

Yes, exactly.

Because I went to Brown.

We don't we didn't have.

There's no court requirement.

Yeah, and so you have more spaces in your schedule to take more classes.

And so basically everything I took in my entire time around either went towards my computer science degree or my literary arts degree and the literary are sturdy.

Ended up kind of being an accident because I was taking all these classes anyway.

But after a year or two, I was like, I basically had this degree without even trying.

I might as well Yeah, go for it.

So basically, when you were doomed both of those degrees at the same time, it wasn't because you were still thinking whether you wanted to computer science, full time or literature.

It was just because you had a lot of time.

Yeah, it was.

So I mean, with computer science, After about a year, I kind of thought I wanted t do it full time.

I really loved that.

Created.

After two years, I had my first internship, and I pretty she was pretty sure I wanted to do it.

Yeah, for like, my job.

Literally.

Eric was just like I had.

I had all these other spaces in my course load.

Might as well take some writing class.

And I always loved writing.

Yeah, And after two years, I was like, I might as well I might as well just go whole hog and get the degree.

So the way you got into silicon valets again with was it'll started with internships, right?

Yeah.

So I entered with Google and 2011.

And that I am with Facebook in 2012.

Ended up working at Facebook after graduation because I had ended up with return off.

Yeah, and so I did Facebook for two years.

After that, I decided I wanted something a little smaller.

When do you know where I was that uber for 3.5 years.

And then I decided I needed to do something totally different and crazy and crazy.

And now, the whole time, Children's book writer.

So lot, lots of wind a little.

You You did an internship with Google first, and then you did an entrance about Facebook.

And I know that you, prior to being a full time writer, were a senior android.

Generic uber.

Yes.

So how did you get into entering development to begin with?

So when I was at Facebook, the team that I was on that I was assigned to got disbanded, actually, data joined.

Somebody does the same thing.

It actually happened at Google And just, you know, tech is fast and things that exist one day don't exist next day.

Yeah, and the team that I ended up that they ended up meeting people on was an android team, and I have only done Android.

I did it.

I took the class in it.

It was like it was like a game.

Devon Andrey course had seen it before.

They were like, That's good enough for us.

We need an android person that's more experience than a lot of our engineers have a congratulations you're in.

And that was what year was 2012.

So face it was pretty face.

But no, I p o.

I think I can't.

My gut tells me we're just like you.

I don't remember for sure.

Hey, eso and you sent that Facebook was, like, still kind of, you know, figuring things out.

Yeah, and I think this is I don't say.

I think it's still the case were like, You know, you'll think you'll think you're on track to do a product.

And then and then things changed.

Just because because priorities change or, you know, the environment changes or you spend six months doing something because you think it'll work.

Then you realize it won't work for some fundamental reason.

Yeah, um, and things just things change, Mason.

So?

So when they told you okay.

Like you're good enough.

Let's just go.

Go.

John Drake.

Did they give you any kind of training or was it kind of like figuring out what kind of bigger things out?

I done job for years.

So what's the job of?

This?

Was very second nature for me.

Oh, Thean tree frameworks.

They were like their tutorials online.

There are like, it was very much like, bigger every year.

Like break things.

Right?

Awesome.

So and then you just, like, started as an intern.

Yes, yes.

And so I spent the three months we were working on a photos being on Facebook photo sharing.

And so we did that.

We had a block from the product, like my last day.

It was really exciting because it was like Like I would walk around, you know, my my university campus a couple weeks later and like, see people using my feature.

Yeah, it was like huge impact.

As soon as you work on something that's exactly launch.

Exactly.

I don't know if you remember, but back in 2012 R before this summer, you could only share one photo at a time on Facebook.

And so this photo because you can do it instead of an album.

I think also.

That's huge people.

I guess so.

Maybe use some legacy code.

Probably just embarrassing, because it was like it was an intern.

Code happens.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So you basically did this huge change of Facebook from, like, one photo upload to mull.

Tell me, and a team of people that Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, that's amazing.

And you mentioned that you want your Facebook full time after doing that internship.

So I'm curious.

Why did you decide to go to Facebook?

Full time versus Google?

Because I know you've been turned out.

Google.

So my internship in Facebook waas pretty great.

I really, really love my time.

There you go.

I don't know if I just like Otto.

It just didn't feel like a good fit for me.

Like it was just like there were some days where my my my manager was really, like, over waiting on something.

When you go play pool today like great.

Like, that's fine.

Yeah, but I like the fast paced environment of Facebook, and, like, I really think it was a very specific, you know, experience had a google, but, uh, would you say that Google was more like fury I could damage.

No, I really think it was just like like the team I was on the time that I was at, that I was on that team just had a little bit less to dio it was just kind of bad luck because, like no one, all I was in this particular I was also I was really young in Turn on and I was a part of it was I don't know what the name of the program is now, but when I was there, it was called the Bold program.

Oh, um, and it was for people who were rising Junior Seau.

So they were like so they were kind of a younger.

In turn age on.

We were any pears.

And so you're assigned to a team and there was a little bit lex less flexibility because I was in this program, like, switch projects the same way that I did when I was a Facebook.

And so I think I kind of got stuck on a team that didn't have as much to Dio and so like, my managers were like trying to find work for me and trying to find work for me.

Yeah, but I just think I think it was just like we were a little bit stuck because of, like, what?

What age was and what our experience level waas.

But if he's looking at it, I just love to help.

Fast paced.

It wasn't like we don't care that you're an intern.

You can go.

Yeah, it was like figure it out.

It was like like they trusted us to Just like it's something You're not like.

We're smart, We're just you'll get it.

Do you think Facebook is still about for insurance?

I don't know.

I haven't I mean, that this was obviously, you know, and I have a better facebooking about four years this point.

I would hope so.

I would assume so.

I mean, my husband works at Facebook and he he's very like the thought of not giving an intern something to do is like a polling.

So So, yeah, so, like, you know, from what I gather, it's Facebook.

It's still a very fast paced environment, still really like they still trust there in years because their engineers like unless unless you have a reason for them not to trust you.

I trust I have a bit of a monetary question.

So remember when When I was an entrant in my time and we had Facebook entrance.

I remember they got a huge sign up offers, if they, like, went to Facebook full time.

Yeah.

Was on the case and 12 or 13 definitely didn't hurt.

I don't know.

I don't know what I don't want to say.

No, I don't know what they are now, but like, it was definitely It was very generous, very generous.

So that you spent two years at Facebook full time.

Just why?

Just two years?

I mean, two years is still no, I think it's two in there A little over two years.

Yeah, okay.

And I think we just a timing thing.

So I actually from what I remember, two years is a very common for her first job out of college.

I so just I was on the messenger team the majority of my time, and I love the messenger team.

I watched you grow from a team of about 12 android engineers about 30 or 40 and I think I grew big and fast, and it went from being like a product being an organ.

And it just became really cute, which were wonderful.

Is so cool.

Watch that happen.

Yeah, a same time a lot of my close friends were leaving two to go to smaller companies, like one of those people going to and part of it was just like a social thing.