Beka Modebadze: Working At Google, Managing Stress, Failure Culture | archill podcast #11

Meet Beka, a software engineer at Google. Beka’s had an amazing journey before google. He started from the academy of arts, followed by major in economics. After that he switched to data science and eventually ended up writing his first line of code at the age of 29. 

EPISODE LINKS:
- Beka's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmodebadze/
- Archil's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
00:48 From Arts to Software Engineering, journey
05:09 Skills and Experiences for Software Engineering
06:32 Software Engineering as Problem Solving
09:00 Enjoyment in Software Engineering
11:20 Setting Goals and Making Plans
15:32 Applying and Getting at Google
18:08 Google Interview Story
21:47 Working at Google
26:42 Team Switching
29:17 Stress at Google
33:57 Handling Stress
37:23 Failure Culture at Google
44:34 Balancing Work and Personal Life
46:50 Feedback and Performance Evaluation at Google
50:58 Collaboration and Networking
56:00 Learning and Side-Projects
58:29 Non-Tech Interests and Hobbies
01:02:53 Outro