Nyasha Presents - Zim Beyond The Degree

Career in tech in Zim vs America 1:00 What does Clint do 2:00 Compare and contrast what’s it like starting a career in tech in Zim versus in the US 3:00 How long have we been in the tech industry 4:00 Clint getting involved in startups in late high school Co-founding projects Funding being the biggest problem 2 years after high school - went to HIT Being involved in developer communities in college 9:00 When Clint knew he wanted to get into computer science 12:50 Nyasha Studying MPC to keep options open Engineering is not construction work! 13:45 Getting into USAP which assisted me getting a scholarship at a top university, University of Pennsylvania 14:30 Deciding to study Electrical Engineering even though I knew I would probably go to work as a software engineer 17:00 Software engineering interviewing process being really tough Not committing to Leetcode 18:38 it’s ok if you don’t get what you were looking for. 20:00 My role at Morgan Stanley building ops for risk management Get good at working with data 28:00 Is the route of a career in tech more straightforward in the US 31:00 Why its still worth levelling up your skills 35:00 Remote work 38:00 Is the aspiration for Zim tech workers to get opportunities abroad - how can they reach their fullest potential within the country. 43:17 Issues living in America 54:00 The interesting side effect of being a developer in Zim 57:00 Rapid fire questions What’s been your favorite philosophy of life Don’t be scared to go after what you want

Brandon 1:00 intro 2:30 How Brandon got into software development 13:13 Telecommunications at Midlands State University 15:00 Brandon is not looking for a job 19:23 Who is Brandon working with 22:00 What advice would you give someone who doesn’t know what to start building, what their startup should be based on? 25:00 Don’t build a solution no one will use 32:00 How do people get remote gigs Disappointing a client 36:00 Zimbabwean developers all around the world come together 41:00 Interest in space 45:00 Rapid fire

1:40 Who is Taku  3:55 When did Taku move to North America  4:28 Taku talks about the black experience in Canada  5:37 Identity crisis as an African international student in a predominantly white city.  9:12 The culture shock of having black people who don’t necessarily make you feel like you belong.  10:26 Black boys who code Pre university kids Invoking the interest in them  12:00 Why is it important for minorities to be involved in tech  15:00 What’s it like working at Microsoft as a software engineer  9 out of 10 experience  17:40 Tech layoffs  18:50 What other plans does Taku have besides tech  23:00 Taku explains some of his tweets NYC Patriarchy  27:00 Patriarchal society ideals being confused with human nature  33:00 Is Taku still listening to Tuku  34:00 If Taku could build an app what would it be about?

1:00 Who is Tinashe Mzondiwa?  2:00 Tinashe is happy he failed his A Levels  6:40 Software Development being all about just solving a problem  7:00 Developing the Shona Ndebele SDA hymnal app  8:40 How to publish and market an app  10:39 How projects matter so much in software development. You can leverage the things you’ve built.  12:50 Society and parents are so hard on you when you get school wrong early on.  14:14 How did Tinashe go from missing the bar in A level to building and deploying a successful app on the App Store and Google play store. Being passionate and working hard.  19:00 Tonderai talks about what it was like working at Instacart versus Slack Feeling impostor syndrome working at Instacart.  22:00 Lessons learned moving from Southern Africa to Canada Chances of making it as an entrepreneur greater in North America.  24:00 The pressure of coming into a senior developer role without ever having worked in the country or having done an internship  Answering Frequently Asked Software Developer Questions:  25:00 Best programming language - depends on the problem you have. It’s just a tool  26:00 What is the best way to stay up to date with software engineering trends - Follow engineers you aspire to be like and see what they’re tweeting, what’s important to them  27:00 What’s changed in the software engineering industry since you started  29:00 What’s the job outlook for software engineers?  32:00 What Tinashe misses most about Zimbabwe? It has to do with supermarkets  33:00 How to reach Tinashe? 34:00 Tinashe gives a shoutout to 3 people dead or alive  34:40 Advice for someone with impostor syndrome as a developer There are free courses online to get started. Just be passionate

*** 2:00  3:00 how Audrey got into software development   5:00 what were some of the challenges getting into the role of getting in software development.  6:00 Being reserved. Feeling inferior.  7:50 playing sport to boost confidence  11:18 How do you build self confidence  environment. Support. Supporting kids  12:20 Believing in yourself 13:30 being a perfectionist   16:00 how do you manage dealing with the outcomes when you’re a perfectionist.  20:45 What we think of ChatGPT Concerns What she’s cases does it really solve  23:00 what projects has Audrey worked on in tech.  28:00 what kind of projects are you willing to take on?  29:52 Where does Audrey get the design bug?  32:00 Storytelling such a cool school  32:30 Rapid fire questions  33:00 worst programming language  36:00 it’s tough in Zim right now. 40:00  What is the origin story of Zim developers  45:00 advice for anyone going through something   49:00 Shouting out people!