Boba Talk
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#14 How CS Students Are Landing AI Jobs in 2025 (Microsoft, Atlassian)
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‼️ We hosted a CS Panel in the Codédex Discord server ‼️Curious about landing internships and full-time offers in big tech and banks, tips fo...
#13 Tyrus Yeo (Founding Engineer @ Ditto, CS @ UMich): From Hong Kong to NYC Startups: The 800-Word Email That Changed Everything
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to go from coding your first “Hello World” in a college CS class to becoming a founding engineer at one of the hottest upcoming ...
#12 Victoria Kirst (VP of Eng @ Glitch, Tech Lead @ Google): 13 Years in Software Engineering, Big Tech vs Startups, and Going All-In on Paper
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first episode recorded LIVE on the new Boba Talk couch! 🛋️Victoria Kirst, better known online as vrk, is a tech veteran (former VP of Enginee...
#11 Jenn Schiffer (Director of Community @ Glitch): The Internet's My Girl, Despite Everything
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jenn Schiffer is back! Jenn was the Director of Community at Glitch (acquired by Fastly) for seven years before taking a well-earned break. A beloved ...
#10 Jovanay Carter (Co-Founder @ The Dev Differencee & Google Recruiter): Resume & LinkedIn Profile Tips to Land More Interviews
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a live recording from the Hacker House fireside chat on February 5th, 2025, in the Codédex community, kicking off our “Roast My Res...
#9 Steve Chen (Founder @ Code & Coffee): From LAN Parties to Building a 50,000 Member Dev Community in 37 Cities
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a live recording from the Hacker House fireside chat on December 14th, 2024, in the Codédex community during the Mini Holiday Hackath...
#8 Cat Zhou (Head of Data @ Twitter & BeReal): Data Science 101, Startups vs. Big Tech, and How to Break into Data
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a live recording from a virtual Hacker House event on November 21st, 2024, in the Codédex community. 🏡 We invited our good friend ...
#7: Jamie Rollison: From Linguistics to Android Dev, Internships at Intuit & Stripe, and College Life @ UIUC
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Jamie Rollison, a senior at UIUC studying Computer Science, to discuss her unique journey from linguistics to Androi...
#6: Juan Pa: Running Hackathons in Mexico City, Impact of AI in Education, and GitHub Student Developer Pack (Partnership Episode)
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Codédex partnered with GitHub Education! 🙌 For this special episode, we invited Juan Pablo Flores, aka Juan Pa, Senior Program Manager at GitHub b...
#5: Codédex AMA: Game Dev, Flutter vs React Native, APIs, and Barcelona, Spain (IG Live)
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded during our team offsite in Barcelona, Spain, where we did an AMA via Instagram Live on January 11th, 2024 in our Airbnb livi...
#4: Josh Goldberg: Building Full Screen Mario to 3M Users, Tech Stack at Microsoft, and TypeScript vs. JavaScript
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We caught up with a friend on the pod! ✨ Josh Goldberg is an open-source maintainer in the TypeScript ecosystem based in Philly. In this episode, Jo...
#3: Brandon Lam & Asma Ahmed: Software Engineer Interns at NASA, Projects vs. LeetCode, How Much a NASA Intern Make
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
12k students apply to NASA Glenn internships each year, and only 162 are selected. We sat down with two of them – Brandon Lam, a rising junior at th...
#2: Miracle Awonuga: Switching Majors to Data Science, WaffleHacks, and Finding Mentors at Belmont University
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sonny and Lillian met up with Miracle Awonuga, a recent graduate from Belmont University’s data science program (the first black woman to do so), fo...
#1: Ellie Popoca: Why Beginners Should Attend Hackathons, Finding Your Peers at UIUC, and the Future of AI
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Boba Talk: Back to School season! In the first episode, Sonny and Lillian sat down with Ellie Popoca, a senior at the University of Illinoi...
#0: Hello World
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Howdy! We are a brand new podcast for learning to code. Follow us @boba_talk on Twitter to ask us questions in future episodes! Co-Host: Sonny Li C...