Topic Archive

Career

  • Welcome back to the Pybites podcast, episode 121. Watch here: Or listen here: This week we have Emily Wilcock on the show, recruitment manager and Pybites career coach 😍 Emily delves into a topic close to her heart: navigating the job search journey after a redundancy. She was affected herself by a recent layoff and […]


  • Python Coding Interview Learning Path

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    Introduction Most companies, when recruiting new software engineers, include at least one coding interview as part of their selection process. And why not? We’re software engineers, after all; writing (and reading) code is what we do.  Yet, even for the seasoned Pythonista, there is one coding interview that often feels disproportionately — and unnecessarily — stressful: […]


  • Welcome back to the Pybites podcast! Watch here: Or listen here: In this podcast episode, Julian interviews Isaac Smit, a former member of the US Navy and current program manager at Amazon. He discusses the challenges faced by veterans in the workplace and how we can support them better. Isaac highlights two main difficulties veterans […]


  • Welcome back to the Pybites podcast! Watch here: Or listen here: In this podcast episode, Peter Lynch, a software developer, discusses his journey into web development and his entrepreneurial interests.  He shares his experience of transitioning from a corporate job to pursuing his passion for building his own projects.  Peter emphasizes the importance of networking […]


  • Welcome back to the Pybites Podcast. Watch here: Or listen here: This week we have a follow up to episode 101 in which we spoke about being in control in these difficult times of corporate layoffs. In this episode we talk about the importance of the people around you, because remember, you are the “average […]


  • Watch here: Listen here: Welcome back to the podcast. Today we share 8 tips in response to a question that we were tagged on @ Twitter: As always we also discuss wins and books. Links: Mentioned books: And last but not least thanks for all your feedback 😍🙏 You can reach out to us through our Slack or […]


  • Finding value and purpose in your work

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    Watch here: Or listen here: Welcome back to the Pybites podcast! This week we have an inspirational talk with our special guest Cassandra Babilya! We talk about the importance of finding value and purpose in your work. We talk about: – Considering your life purpose. – Your professional values and your personal values. – How […]


  • The role of luck

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    Listen here: Today we talk about luck and how it relates to career success. It annoys the heck out of us when people say about successful people “oh they were just lucky”. Sure luck has a role, but often it’s the consistent hard work (discipline) that put those people into the position to become lucky. So we […]


  • Listen here: The job hunt is on! With so many people looking to change things up with work, whether it be a new role, a new company, remote work – you name it – we decided it was time to talk a little about the Job Hunt. This week, I.T veteran and long-standing Pybites Community […]


  • Listen here: This week we have Tonya Sims on the show to talk about her journey from athlete / basketball player to Python Developer Advocate / DevRel and entrepreneur. We talk about how she combines sports with Python, her business of helping parents of aspiring athlete kids and (of course) the unstoppable developer mindset.  We hope you’ll enjoy […]