Summary of the interview conducted by Bhairavi Shah with Ivana Irene

As part of the WITx learning program, I happen to watch an interview of Ivana Irene, GHC 2018 scholar by Bhairavi Shah. Ivana Irene is a 19 years old, undergraduate computer science student from the University of Indonesia. She is a front-end web developer. She will be having her internship at Facebook from January 2019 and at Microsoft from June 2019. She and her team won the BMCC Hackathon.

She is lucky enough to grab the internship opportunity from Facebook and Microsoft. She got the interview invitation a month before GHC conference. I found how amazing GHC really is since it gifts a chance to get interviewed at many big tech companies like the above which you have been dreaming of. From her resume and portfolio website, one can easily understand that she is a front-end web developer. This helped a lot to grab the internship opportunity from Facebook and from Microsoft. I learned that if you are good at something then definitely it should be highlighted in your resume because speaks before you in an interview.

Irene was aware of this particular scholarship a year before the registration had begun and so her preparation. She had actively involved in an organization in her University which focuses on the development of the members in computer science. She believes that her role in that organization really helped her to achieve the scholarship. She asks us to actively get involved in such an organization, if there, in our campus as it is more important than academic achievement. She adds that this would help us to build up an impressive resume.

Then she asked the girls who aspire to be a GHCI scholar that they should not feel down while applying for the scholarship and also to make sure that they build up an impressive resume. And she even says that if they get selected then that would be a great chance to get either an internship or a fulltime jobs in big tech companies so she asks them to prepare for the interview and advised not to miss it out. These words motivate a girl like me who aspire to be a GHCI scholar.

Learn by doing, this was the next thing that strikes me. She recommended to be involved in many projects as it helps us to learn more, i.e if you have a project then you will have a deadline and when you have a deadline and you don’t know how to do it but you have to know about it to complete project before the deadline then definitely you will learn.

Then she explained about the browser extension called Pocket, where we can bookmark the websites that seems interesting to us and this would be synced with our other devices too and we could even share them. This was a new information to me as I have never heard of it before. She also mentioned a Podcast channel-front end happy hour channel, from where she learned about the new technologies in the web development. This really interested me as I am a person who is into web development now.

Overall the interview was amazing and informative. Coming to Bhairavi Shah, the interviewer, she was very excited and was constantly asking many questions to Irene. We get to know how humble Irene is regardless of her great achievements. Truly, it is a must watch.

This is my very first blog. I had never thought of writing a blog before this. I would like to thank WITx learning program to help me to master the confidence to take this new step.