Alumni-in-Residence: Sign Up for Office Hours with Software Engineer Thais Correia '16
Passionate about coding? Curious about what life is really like inside Facebook, or at a small start-up? Wondering how to combine a concern for social justice and politics with a career in tech?
Software engineer Thais Correia '16 (they, them, their) is returning to campus September 11-13 to present a variety of workshops and discussions, and they will offer a limited number of office hours appointments to current students on Thursday the 12th. These 20-minute appointments are available on a first-come, first-served basis and offer an informal, conversational setting to ask in-depth questions about navigating your career path post-Amherst. Particularly useful for students interested in computer science, big tech vs. start-ups, creative coding, or diversity and inclusion in tech.
Thais Correia graduated Amherst in 2016 with a degree in computer science and two summer internships at Facebook under their belt. They moved to San Francisco after graduating and worked for Facebook full-time for two years, living in a shared house with four other CS graduates from Amherst. Thais then left Facebook to work at Hustle, a start-up peer messaging app designed to mobilize Democrats around critical local political actions and elections. This fall, Thais is taking time for self-directed learning at the Recurse Center in NYC, a community-driven, educational retreat for programmers.
To book appointments instantly, students must submit a Loeb Center-approved resume. (Learn about this approval process here.) To book without an approved resume, please upload / submit your pending document, then e-mail careers@amherst.edu with your availability.