S23:E2 - Having a Growth Mindset (Tanya Reilly)

This week we talk to Tanya Reilly, Senior Principal Engineer at Squarespace, about having a growth mindset. Having a growth mindset includes recognizing our limitations and challenging ourselves to learn at any stage of our coding journey. We also talked about interviewing and advocating for ourselves.

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• Compiler (sponsor)
• Porkbun (sponsor)
• Growth Mindset and Code
• System Design
• Linux
• Memoization
• Graph Traversal
• Project Euler
• Stanford Computer Science
• Platform Engineering

Tanya Reilly

Tanya Reilly is a Principal Software Engineer at Squarespace working on infrastructure and site reliability. Before Squarespace she spent 12 years in Site Reliability Engineering at Google. She is originally from Ireland, but is now an enthusiastic New Yorker. Tanya likes raspberry pi, coding on trains and figuring out how systems will break. She blogs at noidea.dog.

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