I'm Cate, I work for Google as a Software Engineer (on mobile Gmail). For fun, I'm a qualified ski instructor and I love to kickbox. I was the Instigator of Awesome at Awesome Ottawa, and I do various things around getting more women into CompSci. I have a BSc from the University of Edinburgh and some ...
It's been quite a year for my blog - the connections I've made, the comments you've left. I'm blown away by the stats. Thank you for stopping by! Round up of my most popular posts: Interviewing @ Google - comprehensive list of what I did to prepare for my interviews. Presentation Slides for "Conversation 2.0: Twitter" - slides ...
Last week, I wrote that things have been a little bonkers lately. I have not spent seven days straight in Ottawa since the start of August and I'm stressed, discombobulated, and overwhelmed. Normally, I figure things about by writing about them. Lots of work on? How can I be more organized/better at delegating/manage my time most effectively? ...
I keep reading people who've quit their job in order to make a living as a blogger. There's all this stuff about minimalist life, and freedom from routine. Is routine so bad? Is stuff so bad? I like to live in different places, but I like to live there. And I like having stuff. If you ...
I have this fear: when I graduate I will have nothing to blog about. But reading about Forrester's move lately has left me pondering a different question - what if taking a great job, meant ending my blog. I don't think I would - would you? Forrester is (slightly) different because it's to do with IP, but ...
Given that my current project is all about engagement, it's probably not surprising that I'm more focused on engagement with my website than number of hits. Here's my SEO strategy: write content, post regularly, give pages different names, insert images properly. That's it. However the bounce rate is more interesting - that's the number of people ...
I'd never heard of Don Dodge until about a week ago, until he was one of the people laid off in Microsoft's latest round of layoffs. He took it with great class, you can read the blogpost here. I didn't subscribe to his blog before, but his blogpost about his departure went viral on Twitter. A ...
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