Today’s episode of the Fresh Engineer Podcast is gonna be different than usual since it’s the season finale! I'm going to give you a look behind the scenes, share some personal insights on what it’s been like to start this podcast, and talk about the lessons I learned from the first season and what I have planned next for this show.

In this episode of the Fresh Engineer Podcast I’m talking to Liz Rowe who is a mechanical engineer turned self-taught Data Science Manager working at Intel in Oregon in the United States. She also runs a YouTube channel reviewing software products with over 3.000 subscribers.

In our conversation we talk about why you should give yourself MORE homework as an engineering student if you want to graduate top of your class, why you should focus on the manager and not the company when picking a job, how she jumped 5 career levels from estimation engineer to regional director by strategically switching companies, how she taught herself how to code and that led to her being offered a job as data science manager at Intel, and how having a YouTube channel has opened doors for her engineering career she never imagined.

In this episode of the Fresh Engineer Podcast I’m talking to Beatrice Ionascu who is an electrical engineer with a specialization in machine learning from Romania. She studied in Abu Dhabi, New York and then Sweden where she co-founded the startup imagi right out of university that she is now the CTO of.

In our conversation we talk about why she switched her major from biology to electrical engineering, her master thesis at Spotify and why she ultimately decided not to stay there, her passion for getting more women into engineering and of course what it has been like to start grow imagi and her biggest challenges as a CTO.