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My guest today is Shreya Mishra. Shreya currently works at AWS in Amazon. She has a background in Computer Science. She chose to major in CS because she was curious about technology. At school, in one of her classes, she was asked to write a basic program and it was where she developed interest in coding. Her first job was in India, and she had to go through an intense training program to prepare for her first job. Shreya credits this training period for the basis of a lot of skills such as learning to code in new languages. She also wanted to enter management to see where and how decisions were made. Shreya immigrated to the US to grow her career and had to quickly learn the way things are done in the US. Her mentors supported her with the culture transition. Another challenge she faced was the fear of not knowing how to do things. To overcome t ...
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