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9: Alison Chow - Exploring Tech, Traveling, Career Fairs
Manage episode 220490173 series 2438606
This week's episode features Alison Chow, an industrial engineering student who got to work as a product manager at Microsoft twice, as a developer at NVIDIA, and as a business intelligence engineer at a startup called Stylelounge in Hamburg! She had some interesting stories to share from career fairs, travels, and highly varied internships.
Notes
1:15 - Deciding to study engineering (science) because she was good at math and physics in high school, switching to industrial engineering
3:03 - Getting deep into YNCN and the benefits of doing heavy job hunting in first year
5:56 - What product managers at Microsoft do
7:34 - Being sheltered in the first internship, working on a project to grow an app ecosystem
11:18 - Things affecting the decision to do PEY: money, getting a wider set of experiences, trying a "technical" role
14:00 - Getting jobs (Microsoft, NVIDIA) from career fairs, having had experience before that working with her mom at trade fairs
16:44 - Some lowlights from grinding at career fairs
24:57 - Working at Stylelounge, a startup in Hamburg, doing business development; getting a visa herself!
31:21 - A day in the life doing business intelligence - "improving decision making through data"
36:02 - Adjusting to life in a place where she knew NOBODY
39:11 - Being more trusted the third time around at Microsoft and getting more responsibility - 3 simultaneous projects!
41:09 - Traveling with people you've just met
42:58 - Starting to miss school after a long time away
46:28 - Advice, value of early work experiences (e.g. before 1st year)
Music by Shawn Lee
28 episodes
Manage episode 220490173 series 2438606
This week's episode features Alison Chow, an industrial engineering student who got to work as a product manager at Microsoft twice, as a developer at NVIDIA, and as a business intelligence engineer at a startup called Stylelounge in Hamburg! She had some interesting stories to share from career fairs, travels, and highly varied internships.
Notes
1:15 - Deciding to study engineering (science) because she was good at math and physics in high school, switching to industrial engineering
3:03 - Getting deep into YNCN and the benefits of doing heavy job hunting in first year
5:56 - What product managers at Microsoft do
7:34 - Being sheltered in the first internship, working on a project to grow an app ecosystem
11:18 - Things affecting the decision to do PEY: money, getting a wider set of experiences, trying a "technical" role
14:00 - Getting jobs (Microsoft, NVIDIA) from career fairs, having had experience before that working with her mom at trade fairs
16:44 - Some lowlights from grinding at career fairs
24:57 - Working at Stylelounge, a startup in Hamburg, doing business development; getting a visa herself!
31:21 - A day in the life doing business intelligence - "improving decision making through data"
36:02 - Adjusting to life in a place where she knew NOBODY
39:11 - Being more trusted the third time around at Microsoft and getting more responsibility - 3 simultaneous projects!
41:09 - Traveling with people you've just met
42:58 - Starting to miss school after a long time away
46:28 - Advice, value of early work experiences (e.g. before 1st year)
Music by Shawn Lee
28 episodes
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