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My First Week In Tech

Caitlyn Greffly on October 21, 2019

Four months ago, I was sitting amongst my colleagues in the beer industry, bro-ing out over the hottest barrel-aged beer and discussing profit marg...
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Harsh Shandilya

Glad to know your transition went through smoothly! With all the people having bad experiences with techbros it's refreshing to see the good people are still there and helping new people into our industry :)

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Cat • Edited

Very happy for your experience, it looks like an amazing place to work, it's always good to see companies that really make the on-boarding of someone so smooth.
Enjoy and keep going! Thank you for sharing.

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commertechgithub

Caitlyn, I stumbled across your post, purely by accident. Really enjoyed reading it. As an old hat, who has thoroughly enjoyed a career that started in dev, I wish you all the luck! You have a great approach, and I'm certain it will take you far. Thanks for the read!

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Evaldas Buinauskas

Double hashtags?🤔

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jeikabu

Either they contain a comment or they were commented out. She left it as a parse for the readers.

Joking aside, I enjoyed the article. Helps to be reminded what it’s like to be new. Look forward to reading how it goes in “weekly win” thread.

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Evaldas Buinauskas

Could be. My point being that she might not reach her audience because of incorrect tags 🙂

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Caitlyn Greffly

Haha you’re right good catch! I’m still fairly new to dev and I wrote the hashtags in when I added them, hence the double. I’ll edit thanks!

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Evaldas Buinauskas

Cheers! : )

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Avalander

Nice story, thanks for sharing and best luck in your new career!

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Alejandro Sierra

Wow this sounds sooo familiar aha my experience was like that also when i started 6 months ago at my first company. Glad you found something that suits you. best of luck!

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Jason Williams

Today is my first tech job day so as I sit waiting to be introduced I found your article most reasuring.

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Caitlyn Greffly

Good luck on your first week!!

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City of Stars

Thank you for this post. Enjoyed reading it and may you be very happy with the learning for the days to go.

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Alex

Getting into technology makes you feel powerful!