Episode 10 - Victoria Lestari
Guest
Victoria Lestari is an alumni of University of Indonesia and University of Texas whose now is working as a Software Engineer at Google in London. Besides working at tech, she’s also an active writer in Quora and just recently published her novel, Jakarta Vigilante which talk about women superhero that took place in Jakarta.
Description
How is it like to work at Google? In this episode, we talked with Victoria Lestari, a Software Engineer at Google London. We talked about her experience on studying at the University of Texas, teach in Fasilkom UI, as well as work culture in Google. Apart from that, we also talked about superhero and her latest novel which called Jakarta Vigilante
Links
- Google Career
- Cracking the coding interview by Gayle Laakman (Book)
- Coref / Conference resolution
- Jakarta Vigilante (Book) Shopee or Tokopedia
Segments
01:08 - Victoria’s introduction
02:18 - How Victoria got interested on Technologi
03:27 - Victoria’s tech stack
04:15 - What did Victoria learn at University of Texas (UT Austin)
08:14 - Victoria’s experience on applying for internship at Quora
10:50 - Victoria’s story on working at Google
17:45 - Victoria’s experience as a lecturer in UI
19:10 - Preparation to apply to Google
23:15 - Team that work closely with Victoria in Google
23:33 - Product that Victoria’s working on
26:05 - Another side of working at Google
29:37 - Talking about Victoria’s novel (Jakarta Vigilante)
31:45 - Jakarta Vigilante’s characters inspiration
34:45 - Women on STEM representation in fiction stories
37:20 - Superhero favorit Victoria’s favorite superhero
38:33 - Victoria’s view on career and how she manage her time
40:40 - Talk about Korea and fashion
41:43 - Victoria’s fashion style
42:30 - How to order Victoria’s book - Jakarta Vigilante (See section Links above)
43:35 - Victoria’s messages for the listener