1. What were you doing before you became a Software Engineer? My career prior to Ada was in sports marketing. My last “real” job was marketing and promotions assistant at the Orange Bowl Committee in Miami. However, immediately before Ada I was working random jobs…

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Why do you believe the Ada program is good for your company?   The ability to attract outstanding tech talent is one of our greatest challenges. Ada has allowed us to do that while increasing the diversity of our workforce, making our company better and…

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1. What were you doing before you became a Software Engineer?  Bug-related things. And by bugs I mean insects, not software bugs. I worked as an entomologist studying the evolutionary biology and taxonomy of soapberry bugs. I also worked on mosquito and tick repellent efficacy…

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It’s hard to believe that Cohort 4 is already presenting their capstone projects today, but they are! As we think about their projects, we realized that we never shared the awesome projects that Cohort 3 did. Here are just a couple out of the 24 awesome…

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Hello! My name is Anne Maertens. I’ve had the pleasure of interning with Ada for the past few months to help lay the groundwork for the organization’s fundraising efforts. I’m also in my first year of graduate school at UW’s Evans School of Public Policy…

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Why do you believe the Ada program is good for your company?   The Ada program is not just good for Chef, but great for Chef because we are growing at a steady pace and we find that the talent coming from the Ada program…

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