How do you handle feedback? Do you feel sweaty and nervous before your appraisal meetings? Do you brood and feel insulted someone found something wrong about you? Do you ever feel so guilty and uncomfortable about giving feedback that you surround the criticism in so many compliments that no one knows what you’re talking about…
In today’s Tech Sisters interview, Rahma Javed joins us to tell you her story and how to accelerate your tech career by always challenging yourself. Rahma is the Director of Engineering for the Restaurants group at Deliveroo. She focuses on helping Deliveroo becoming the best partner for its restaurants and driving growth and profitability for…
Sadiya is an energetic and highly motivated IT professional with over 18 years of progressively complex systems development and support experience. She’s also a super active and positive member of the Tech Sisters community. It was a real pleasure getting to know Sadiya and her experiences as a Muslim woman in tech! Can you describe…
Social worker turned social entrepreneur, Amany is the Co-Founder & COO a.k.a Team Swiss Army Knife at LaunchGood.com: A crowdfunding platform to support Muslims launching good all over the world by helping them raise funds for their projects, campaigns, and creative ideas. Today, she tells us about what it’s really like as a startup founder,…
When I talk to people about my career in tech, without a doubt, the most common questions are about how I can maintain my integrity as a Muslim in this environment. How can I observe hijab while working directly with so many men? What do I do if meetings are in the pub and everyone…
Probably the question I see the most from you Tech Sisters is “What do I need to do to get a job as a developer/software engineer/data analyst?” A lot of us are transitioning into tech from other fields or are still so new in our careers that we don’t have a planned path yet. I…