<h2>Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on <a href="https://www.userinterviews.com/hello">userinterviews.com</a>!</h2><p><strong>Episode Resources:</strong><br /><a href="https://gumroad.com/l/fhIFH">Nadia's Book</a><br /><a href="https://beetlehope.com/">Nadia's website</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/beetlehope">Nadia's Twitter</a></p><p><strong>About Nadia Zhuk</strong><br />Nadia is a software engineer at Intercom, and was previously working at Zendesk. Before, Nadia was an English teacher, and journalist, until she decided to learn programming and enter the tech world.</p><h2>Make code reviews your superpower at <a href="https://awesomecodereviews.com/">awesomecodereviews.com</a>!</h2><p> </p><h3>Other episodes you'll enjoy</h3><p><a href="https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/emotions-software-engineering/">Do code reviews frustrate developers?</a></p><p><a href="https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/high-quality-code/">The Secret To High-Quality Code</a></p><p><a href="https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/vulnerability-disclosure-katie-moussouris/">Vulnerability disclosure with Katie Moussouris</a></p>


<description>&lt;h2&gt;Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on &lt;a href="https://www.userinterviews.com/hello"&gt;userinterviews.com&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Episode Resources:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://gumroad.com/l/fhIFH"&gt;Nadia's Book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://beetlehope.com/"&gt;Nadia's website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/beetlehope"&gt;Nadia's Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Nadia Zhuk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nadia is a software engineer at Intercom, and was previously working at Zendesk. Before, Nadia was an English teacher, and journalist, until she decided to learn programming and enter the tech world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Make code reviews your superpower at &lt;a href="https://awesomecodereviews.com/"&gt;awesomecodereviews.com&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Other episodes you'll enjoy&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/emotions-software-engineering/"&gt;Do code reviews frustrate developers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/high-quality-code/"&gt;The Secret To High-Quality Code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/vulnerability-disclosure-katie-moussouris/"&gt;Vulnerability disclosure with Katie Moussouris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Nadia Zhuk shares how to build a career as a self-taught programmer successfully. She learned to program all by herself and changed her career from being an English teacher to a full-stack developer.

We also talk about:
- teaching yourself programming
- starting your developer career as a self-taught developer
- getting your foot into tech
- changing your career by teaching yourself how to program
- moving countries and taking chances for a better life
- how feature flags are used at Intercom
- how mentoring, pair programming, code reviews, and also the concept of a buddy can help you ramp up your coding career.

Software Engineering Unlocked

From English teacher to dev in 9 month: A self-taught developer journey

From English teacher to dev in 9 month: A self-taught developer journey

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