Lead Time Chats

Kaya Thomas on common challenges early-career engineers face

Episode Summary

In this episode, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Kaya Thomas, senior software engineer at Calm, about common challenges that early career engineers face.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with  Kaya Thomas, senior software engineer at Calm, about common challenges that early career engineers face.

Jean and Kaya chat about:

• Overcoming some of the stigmas of being an early career engineer
• How to negotiate your first full-time job offer, especially if you have more experience than average
• Ways that engineering managers can support early-and-mid stage engineers on their team
• Knowing when to leave your first engineering job!