

Engineering is the most male-dominated field in STEM. With women making up only 14% of the engineering workforce, the challenges that they face are unique and can make navigating professional...
Engineering is the most male-dominated field in STEM. With women making up only 14% of the engineering workforce, the challenges that they face are unique and can make navigating professional growth difficult.
With all of the difficulties that they face, how can you build and grow your career as a woman in engineering?
Join us as Shaila Vasudev, Director of Quality Engineering at Netskope, shares approaches you can take to move forward in your engineering career. She’ll also reveal her key to being successful in an engineering role.
In this chat, you’ll learn:
Shaila Vasudev has held many technical and people leadership roles in engineering. She currently serves as the Director in Quality Engineering and also as the Technical Architect for special projects at Netskope. She is passionate about building and bringing excellent products to the marketplace and about women in engineering.
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How can I make career transition efficiently from finance to tech
Good Afternoon , As a mother of 2 wonderful daughters, I'm working in medical field then i stop ped working 6months do to Covid issues then i realize i need a change of career then i start...
Please share a specific example of a difficulty you faced, strategies you employed, and how you evaluated the outcomes
Keeping up with new technologies has been a challenge, as a women who is starting a family. How are you all able to get on top of new technologies?
I'm an SDET right now, while I love what I do I want to move away from programming to more organizing (like project manager) and management (like QA manager) position. How can I smoothly make that...
When do we know we stayed too long in a position?
How do I find a good mentor?
Some of the work I have done has been called "software engineering." My sister the mechanical engineer says that if physical materials aren't involved, it isn't real engineering. Do you include...
My main piece of feedback on my soft skills year after year is that I “lack confidence”. How do I address it once and for all?
This is a wonderful opportunity
How to break into tech after a bootcamp ?
This is a great topic. I can't wait to participate. Thank you.
I see some of my friends moving from a senior Engineer to a QA automation engineer role and becoming an Engineer Manager. For a women, is that an alternate path to enter into a management role?
What is the definition of career growth? And how to achieve it per this definition?
How does one figure out what they enjoy or should pursue within engineering while working full time? There seems to be so much and tech is ever changing how do I know where best to invest my...
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What was your motivation in pursuing this type of line of work?
How to find a mentor or mentors who can help in career growth. Any reference of people you know I can reach out to?
I'm hoping there'll be time at the end to take what is taught about women breaking the glass ceiling and applying it to those of us who are 50+ who are (so far unsuccessfully) trying to break into...
How has the journey been so far as a female in tech?
How to deliberately seek mentors and sponsors who would advocate for me in my absence?
learning options is a big one but it all sounds good
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