Reimagining the Return-to-Office Movement
with Sienna Brown, Rob Ribar
Back to Work After Raising Kids: My Story as a Backend Engineer
Ruth Helfinstein
What's it really like returning to work after raising a family - is it even possible to maintain your stature or skills? What if you're in a technical role? Ruth Helfinstein, a Senior Software Engineer at WW has been there, and is ready to answer your pressing questions in this hour-long...
What's it really like returning to work after raising a family - is it even possible to maintain your stature or skills? What if you're in a technical role? Ruth Helfinstein, a Senior Software Engineer at WW has been there, and is ready to answer your pressing questions in this hour-long Q&A! Regardless of how long your career break was, you can return to a career you love and be successful!
You asked, she's answering:
- How long was your career break?
- What was the conversation like when you decided to leave?
- When/ how did you know it was time to return to work?
- & more!
Meet The Speaker
Ruth Helfinstein
Ruth is a Senior Software Engineer, currently working on building a personal coaching platform for WW (formerly Weight Watchers). She has a BA in Philosophy and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford. She started her career at Apple, building internal tools using C++, after which she took a multi year hiatus before reinventing herself as a full stack web engineer. Her current tech stack consists of Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React and more.
