Welcome to episode 36 of the web joy podcast.
I'm your host Eddie.
And in this podcast, we interview guests about their origin story and
what makes them excited and joyful to be part of the tech community.
I hope you enjoy today's episode.
I left the coding bootcamp a week into it with Clifford Fajardo.
Eddie: Welcome to another episode of Web Joy.
I'm excited today to have Clifford with us.
Clifford.
Hey, how you doing?
Hey,
Clifford: I'm doing great.
So
Eddie: if you don't mind, let's just start out with you sharing who you
are, what you do, where you work.
You know, a brief intro so people can get to know you.
I'm Clifford
Clifford: Fado.
I'm based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I'm Nicaraguan American, so I speak Spanish.
My family's from Nicaragua.
Fun fact, I have a twin brother.
Currently I work at LinkedIn and I work primarily on the web building,
web UIs on an infrastructure team.
So it's really an environment like no other that I've, uh, had in the past.
I.
Few different roles in, in, at different companies and been really
enjoying my time, uh, at LinkedIn.
So that's, uh, the quick high level overview.
Eddie: So are you working backend or front end
Clifford: infrastructure?
Primarily doing front end helping power infrastructure and experience
so closely collaborating.
With backend engineers and making people more productive with their
tools and, and infrastructure.
Eddie: That's very cool.
Yeah.
I actually lead a, um, internal front end developer tools team as well at Glassdoor.
So.
Nice.
It's cool.
We're kind of on similar teams.
. Clifford: Yeah.
Front end tooling infrastructure.
I love that stuff as well.
So there's so many new tools as you, you can imagine, libraries f.
Uh, it never stopped , so
Eddie: Yeah, absolutely.
That seems like a pretty exciting job, right?
Working on front end tooling at LinkedIn.
How'd you get there?
Right?
What first kind of got you interested in doing technology and what did
that journey kind of look like?
Going from get starting to working at tech to working at a pretty
well known company like Linked.
My
Clifford: development journey started halfway in college.
So, uh, third year of second or third year of college I was actually
studying in the social sciences, sociology, political science.
I thought that was, That was what I was interested in the time and had
aspirations maybe to be a lawyer, work in the government, mostly around,
uh, helping others at some sort of social enterprise to help others.
And then during December break, I remember I just had free time.
You know, you're in school, you have a December break at the end of the year.
Time to relax.
And I stumbled upon code academy.com.
So Code Academy, if you don't know, is a website that teaches you how
to code for free in your browser.
And once I started fiddling around with what, at the time I didn't
know was web development, I really got hooked seeing what I could.
These codes at the time, like how I could tweak them and it would
make things appear on the screen.
I, I got hooked and I realized it was something to really pursue and, and it
was a passion of mine when I sat down one time for five or six hours and
hadn't noticed time fly by so fast, and even though I was struggling to
try to understand what was happening.
I still was hungry to come back and do more of this coding and I just kept at it.
So that was something I was learning on the side in college, eventually
Googling and, and trying to find out, you know, can you make a career or out
of this thing that I just discovered, I found out about coding boot camps.
Coding bootcamps in 2015 were starting to become, it was still not as popular
as today, but it was starting to come up and enough people had done them.
That gave me the confidence to, to see that you can go to a coding bootcamp and
then eventually land a really awesome job and, and start working in the industry.
So, yeah, that's what I ended up doing.
Learning on the side.
Interestingly, uh, my plan was to go to a four year and transfer and,
and complete my four year degree.
I, I did two years, but instead of completing my, my four years and having
to switch my major, I decided to go to a coding bootcamp and I went to Hack
Reactor in the San Francisco Bay area.
It was very challenging and I feel like I have to be transparent for the learners.
I thought that the program was difficult and it's gotten, it's, it's always been
a good program, but at the time being, what was I, 20 years old, 21 years old,
I, I was unsure if I could, I could pass the coding bootcamp and I actually
was having, you know, cold feet and I left the coding boot camps a week into
it cuz I felt like I, it was too much.
And how, how am I supposed to get a job after three months?
You.
And fortunately the people at the coding boot camp were so nice and
amazing that they actually reached out to me a few weeks later and they
asked me if I wanted to talk and maybe reconsider joining the next cohort.
And they supported me all the way, and that's, Literally that
changed my life going through a, a coding bootcamp, financially,
career wise, and just personally.
So, uh, I broke into the industry after, uh, coding bootcamp and
landed at Salesforce in my first job.
Eddie: Wow.
That's amazing.
I love that they reached out to you, you know what I mean?
Like they saw that you'd left and they're like, okay, let's check in with this
guy and see like, He needs something.
You know, I think that is just amazing.
And then that they actually, like you decided to give it a second shot and
now you know the trajectory that has taken your life on that is awesome.
When
Clifford: I landed at Salesforce, I, so I'm at LinkedIn now, so
Salesforce was my first job and.
I've been all my roles primarily doing web engineering.
Uh, front end and ui.
A recruiter reached out to me, which was completely new.
As you, as you can imagine, everybody else who joins the industry the
first time, you get a weird reaction when the first a recruiter reaches
out to you and you've only been at a job for a short amount of time.
I was like, what the heck?
Why?
Why are they contacting me , and I've only been here three and a half months, like
It was just completely odd to me.
Long story short, LinkedIn reached out to me.
It's a company that I always wanted to work at.
I interviewed with them like the first time I didn't get
in, I felt like I was close.
A year later, the same recruiter reached out to me.
I didn't reach out to them, but they were like, Hey, maybe you've, You
know, want, you wanna reconsider.
And I landed at LinkedIn the second time they, they interviewed me.
So a lot of these things are very unexpected.
I wasn't necessarily planning to target these, these companies
and it turned out like that some.
And even on Twitter, I've had the opportunity, just me being active
on Twitter, following people.
The tip I give people is be open to opportunities.
Just be curious.
I've actually.
Interviews that came out of just talking with people on Twitter,
recruiters that have seen me on Twitter and stuff like that.
Eddie: That's awesome.
So I guess what was like that, like for you, right, going through the first
interview process and not making it, which we all do that so many times,
but I feel like most of the time people don't try to go back to the same company.
Right.
So what was that like for you the second time, going through the
interview process, kind of knowing, hey, like I've been here before.
and I didn't make it last time, but also hopefully, I don't know.
Was the interview process kind of similar or like did it feel less nerve wracking?
I don't know.
What was like that like for you before I talk
Clifford: about the second time, I did feel devastated after I didn't
pass the interview the first time because I was, I went to the office.
I was like, oh my gosh, this place looks like, uh, Willy Wonka
land , you know, and the people were so nice and, and all of that stuff.
And I did feel like I was close, you know, so it felt graspable.
So when I didn't get it, I, it did, it was a blow a little bit.
But at the same time, I remember that experience.
What it caused me to do is think about there's room for improvement
for me to become a better engineer.
There's a lot of concepts that these people expose me to,
uh, while I was interviewing.
So from that respect, it, it also lit a fire in me to wanna
learn more about my field.
And then as far as how it went the second time, it wasn't too drastically different.
If you go through something once that tends to help a.
And I definitely prepared a lot the second time going in and it turned out well.
So
Eddie: I think that is such an encouraging story, right?
So often you hear about when people change jobs and like that
they got the job and maybe they.
Spit out a each certain number.
Like, oh yeah, I interviewed at 20 companies and you know, everyone
said no except two or something.
And so that kind of helps people who are in the midst of facing rejection,
like understand that they're not alone.
But I think there's something especially poignant about your story
and like not making that first time at LinkedIn and like the fact that
you did have to phase that, right?
Like that you even got to go to the.
Building is like even more heartbreaking because it's like you may pass
that like first or second like filtering interview and like Yeah.
When you walk in the building you're thinking I could be here.
You know what I mean?
Like it's, it's real now, right?
Clifford: Yep.
The second time I got in and then how it was from Salesforce
to LinkedIn was actually.
Eye opening, a drastic experience, and I'll give you some context on that.
So the first job that I got was actually fully remote.
I worked from home and, you know, being new into your career, me
being new into my career, I craved to be around other engineers and,
and talked with 'em in person.
And I didn't get too much of that at, at Salesforce.
It was still great, um, got the experience for remote life, but when I got to
LinkedIn, It was a different world.
The amount of, uh, engineers that I was surrounded by.
I got to work with lots of other people who specialized in the area of engineering
that I was in front end engineering.
So it, being around that environment, I felt like I even
grew significantly more in just a, just a very short amount of time.
Just you learn by being around people and, and talking.
With them and through osmosis, you, you pick that stuff up.
And this is my tip for, for people, like if you feel like you are wanting to grow
more, sometimes you just need to surround yourself in a, in a different environment.
If you're not getting that where you are now, at least from my experience,
that's what what helped a lot.
Eddie: Definitely, like you said, I've had transitions where I've
been at a job with maybe a couple other engineers, but you don't talk.
You're kind of just working on your own stuff.
And then I transitioned to a design agency where I was surrounded by a bunch of front
end engineers and we had like a weekly.
Share session.
So I was actually remote.
Most of them were in person, but they would all get together in a
meeting room and me and you know, one other remote person would call
in, but someone would like say, Hey, here's what I learned recently.
And you know, it was using a.
I went from like using really old technology to suddenly using like
angular one, and then while I was there, angular two came out.
And it's like, it really opens your eyes to seeing what's out there and
to really, like you said, kind of step up your technology game and awareness
as to like different methods and processes and, and that's really cool.
Clifford: Yeah, you mentioned Angular one, which is something
I also used with in my first job.
And it's just interesting because the, the industry uses React a lot.
So when I meet other people who have touched technologies that I've used,
like Angular one, I'm like, cool.
We have a shared, uh, experience there in the, in the front end world.
Eddie: So, yeah, I, I went from writing like vanilla JavaScript
and J Query to Angular one.
Like that was really, My first like big framework thing, and so then I
actually went Angular one to Angular two, and I actually just started
doing React at Glassdoor, so I had to transition from Angular, I don't know,
number, whatever the modern angular to.
React transitioning into this company, which was, uh, an
interesting learning curve.
But, uh, thankfully, you know, if you get the right resources and you,
you know, have coded long enough, you can figure out, oh, okay, this
is how you do that thing I used to do in this other framework.
. Clifford: Yeah.
Interesting.
We talked about transitioning to react.
I had a very similar experience to you, and I wanna tie this
into learning and community.
I hadn't started re reacting until 2021 and I'd started in 2016 doing development.
So, um, I think one thing to call out is I'm drawn to technologies and their
communities, so I really like the React community and, and what they're doing
and what, just the people leading those frameworks, creating the libraries.
And so for a long time I wanted to work with React and that actually
influenced how I decided what team that I wanted to work on.
Where I wanted to take myself in my career.
So I think it's a hot take, but a lot of people say like, you shouldn't be,
you know, attached to a technology.
There's a whole generalist mindset, you know, just.
Everything's a hammer.
Just think of it as a tool.
Don't become attached, but it's not bad to work with technologies
that you wanna work with.
I feel like we're lucky in the industry to be able to, to choose.
Like if you wanna be in the React community, you can do that.
There's those opportunities.
If you wanna focus on something else, view angular.
There's significant opportunities there too.
And yeah, that just changes how you work.
Your demeanor, I don't know if you've had that experience as.
Eddie: No, I think that's great because it's like, yes, they are all
tools, but certain tools do work a certain way in your brain, right?
Like for some people, like it just works a certain way.
Or like the people who decided to make Angular, the people who
decided to make React, they had a specific methodology that.
Kind of subscribe to.
And so if you feel like that's a good methodology, it totally makes sense
to want to stick with and connect with that community and that methodology.
I mean, there are people who, to this day, still find jobs doing rubian rails, which.
That framework's been around for like two decades.
So it's like, hey, like if people can still be doing Ruby on Rails
today and getting paid, like you can probably find a job doing, you know,
any of the, the front end frameworks that you want for your whole career.
So I think it's, it's fine to double down, um, on that.
It's really what's important to you, right?
Like, as.
As an engineer.
Some people it's about what technology do they work with.
Some people, it's like they don't care about the technology, but they
care about the industry, right?
Like they always want to be in cybersecurity or banking
or something like that.
Whereas in other people it's like, well, I'll change industries
as as long as I get to work.
With reacting the front end, and it's like, that's, that's what I enjoy.
Right.
As long as there's something there that you enjoy that like speaks to you.
Yeah,
Clifford: totally agree.
You, you mentioned lots of awesome caveats, which I agree with.
It's for sure.
Eddie: Well, so what kind of keeps you excited and interested in working
as a software engineer now that you're, you're in the industry, right?
You've worked at a couple companies.
Now, what is it?
Keeps you, yeah.
Plugged in and excited to learn things and kind of go to
Clifford: work every day.
I really, the aspect of front end that keeps me excited is just the,
the hope and possibility to be able to create experiences that just wow
people that are fluid, that are usable.
I think the fact that you can create something and just share it via
a URL is just crazy to me still.
Like, I think that's so cool how you.
Create something, share it via text message to somebody, or, uh,
messenger, WhatsApp, and people can experience what you've built.
I certainly like CLI tools.
I like desktop apps.
I mean, I, I've also built desktop apps before, but there's just something so
cool about the web and how it's easy to share your knowledge, share your
experiences, share your creations.
And I still remember from the beginning when I was learning a.
I would see people on YouTube talk about technologies and the hope that
one day I could create something useful or clean like those people.
Kept me, kept me going.
So those are just some things that keep me excited about the front end.
Eddie: That's really cool.
And that kind of speaking of things that we enjoy, um, I think that kind of brings
us in, you know, every episode we always talk about something that brings us joy.
So I just kind of wanted to ask what's something that brings
you joy in particular and something that you'd like to talk
Clifford: about?
So one thing that that brings me joy, Centered around learning and,
and the work that I do is getting more people involved in, uh,
programming and, and web development.
In particular, when I went to a coding bootcamp, I actually stayed
on to continue mentoring people.
I still do that.
To this day, I still remember those challenging days in the beginning, and
I wanna try and continue to alleviate some of those, those, those feelings and
and challenges for, for other people.
Just be a mentor and have somebody to talk to.
So, and the way I've gotten involved with that is there's various ways I
still volunteer at my coding bootcamp.
I share on Twitter sometimes about the stuff that I'm learning.
I get involved in open source.
So there's, there's a few ways that I, uh, get involved there.
I love
Eddie: that, right?
You went through a journey and you're kind of reaching back and giving back to
people who were in your position, right?
Trying to help them through coding boot camps, and.
Share on Twitter, right?
Where people might be where you were back in 20 14, 20 15,
something around that time.
Right.
And like, yeah, right.
They might be in some random college class and be like, uh, I don't know.
And then see your tweets and be like, oh, hey, maybe y'all, maybe
y'all check this coding thing out.
. Clifford: Yeah.
Because I feel like, um, it can seem very intimidating jumping
into the world of code, how it.
You know, it's very abstract.
Initially we're used to it because we've been coding a long time, but I
remember seeing the faces of, of some of my friends and some of my peers,
and I remember why they got excited.
And being a mentor allows me to kind of like how the coding bootcamp folks
helped me remember, like, you know, my goals, like when I had initially left
cuz I was facing imposter syndrome.
I like to help other people.
Overcome that and, and, and just help them along their way.
Cuz I do feel like programming is an art.
I think it's one way to express yourself, you know, building
stuff online and sharing it.
So yeah, so helping out in volunteering is one of those
outlets that I have for, to do that.
Eddie: That's awesome.
You know, what do you think, like some keys to like getting into web
development are kind of today, right?
If someone.
Is listening to this and they're like, yeah, I, I am curious thinking in web
development, like maybe they've kind of started, but they haven't really taken
a big step or any big successes yet.
Like what do you think would be helpful for them to try
to just get started learning?
Clifford: Yeah.
Somebody is interested in web development.
There's lots of resources online, but it can often feel like, A ocean
of, of, of content out there and you can easily become overwhelmed.
But some resources for folks who, who do wanna dive into developing for the web, I
recommend first checking out, uh, YouTube.
One coding, uh, channel that I like is, it's called Coding Tech.
And the interesting thing about it is they showcase.
Coding videos from different areas of, of programming, web
development, iOS development.
So you get to see, uh, this, this broad spectrum of things and then
that could give you an idea of what area you wanna lean into.
So just building a little bit of the broad picture mentally.
And then as far as like getting into web and.
I'd recommend Code Academy or West Boss's JavaScript 30 free course.
I feel like those will give you a taste of, uh, The, the awesome parts of web
development and in, in a structured way.
Cause I feel like in the beginning, especially structure, actually not
in the beginning, just in anything structure just helps you focus on
building what you want that end goal.
And so definitely JavaScript 30 Code Academy at least are on the
top of my list if you wanna learn web development for free from
awesome and engaged folks, so that's
Eddie: great.
You know, how would you compare things to, like for people getting
started today compared to like when you were trying to get into it?
Do you think it's easier?
Do you think it's harder?
Have things changed dramatically or is it pretty similar?
What?
What do you think there?
This
Clifford: one is, is tough.
I thought about this one a lot.
I do think now there are more resources and in 2014 and 2015, especially for
people who are coming from kind of like a non-traditional background, they're, they
wanna take the self-learning route or.
You know, maybe they don't have the resources or time to
do a computer science degree.
There are more resources now to, to get into, uh, the field faster especially.
So the one thing is since there's so many resources, it can feel overwhelming,
but I would say it's gotten a lot easier to, to learn more because people are
sharing more, people are creating, more people are on Twitter, people
are creating more YouTube videos.
So I think.
Definitely shows the, uh, that there are more opportunities to,
to learn in different styles too.
So
Eddie: that makes a lot of sense.
It's interesting because when we kind of start talking about this topic of
learning, you know, you mentioned that you kind of try to give back and help people.
You know, in the way that you were helped, and you mentioned that
when you kind of left the bootcamp that you were facing kind of an
imposter syndrome and so, right.
Like that I guess is a challenge that is consistent.
Right?
In some ways it's like, okay, people have more resources, but they
can be overwhelmed by resources, but at the same time, , like
something's never change, right?
And so part of that is like this idea of imposter syndrome that frankly everyone
feels, but you actually have a very specific, like oftentimes it's internal,
but yours actually became external, right?
Like you left the bootcamp and mm-hmm.
, someone had to kind of reach out and kind of pull you back in.
What was that like for you to kind of go through that and
what kind of comes to mind?
So
Clifford: to your point about, you know, the imposter syndrome, you
feel it internally and I actually, uh, externalized it by, you know,
deciding to leave the bootcamp.
And I would say that first I wanna comfort people and let them know
that even for me, at how many years I've been here developing 7 20 16.
So it's about six years, seven years since I've been developing, you still
can get imposter syndrome sometimes because you meet phenomenal people.
In your programming journey, and you might be like, wow, like these
people can do amazing things and, and I don't know how to do that.
So you can fall into the trap of comparison, but at the same time,
you know, you need to stop yourself and remember that that's also maybe
possible to achieve by asking for help or, you know, spending some
time, uh, learning those things.
So, you know, even till this.
And imposter syndrome comes out like somebody tells me to, to do something very
ambiguous that I've never done before.
It may come out for a little bit, so I still get it till this day, and I
feel like asking for help is something that I started doing a lot more in
my career after that experience.
Just letting people know how I feel and that really helps a lot because holding
it all in, I don't think it does anybody.
It doesn't help you too much.
But whereas if you verbalize that with somebody else and it, you may be scared
to appear, maybe less competent or, I don't know what you might think or
what somebody might think about that.
At least that's how I felt.
Maybe this person's not gonna think I'm competent.
There might think less of me, but that's not the case.
Times I've opened up, people have, it's made my work environment more relaxed
because now that person also kind of becomes an ally in your journey.
They're like, okay, you know, Clifford was able to open up to me and we had
this shared experience and most people I've run into, into my career, They're
very helpful and, and nice people.
And somebody opened up to me about facing imposter syndrome.
I definitely would wanna help that person, so I, the majority
of people will do that too.
So
Eddie: that makes a lot of sense.
I think it's interesting because, yeah, we think if we kind of stay
closed off and we don't share what we're struggling with, like people
will think we're awesome and amazing.
But it's funny because I've like.
Psychologically, you think that someone will like you more if you do things for
them, but actually it's the opposite.
Like people actually become more attached if they do things for you.
So it's like the people who you do things for you are.
Attaching yourself even more so in that same way, like by kind of
dropping the water line and saying, Hey, I need help to your coworkers.
You are actually creating more of an attachment from them to
you because they are then helping you and now they're invested.
In your success.
Right.
And they, it's interesting how all that psychological stuff works.
Like oftentimes it's opposite of the way we think it would be.
Yeah.
But that, that's great to hear cuz I think so many people would
be able to push through where they're at if they would just.
Ask people for help, but there's always that fear and like being able to hear
like, oh no, Clifford's told people, and like no one has shut him down.
I've talked to people that I work with in previous jobs and
like they've never shut me down.
Like that's one of the things.
Like in the last two jobs I've been at, I've been in more engineering manager
positions, and so having been in imposter syndrome myself, like as we have new
people onboarding, like one of the things I always try to emphasize is I'm
like, ask all the questions you want.
Like there's no dumb question.
You can ask anything because it's like ultimately, If you don't know
something, like you can spend a lot of time spinning your wheels and you
could have figured it out and actually moved on like in one fourth of the time.
So it's like lots of times by asking a question, you're, you're not
only helping yourself progress, but you're actually helping the company
and the team move forward faster.
And so actually everyone's benefiting.
It's not even.
About you, like you are helping everyone benefit by asking that
question and by putting that out there.
So that's
Clifford: awesome.
Yeah, he just reminded me also this, the past three months I was helping, I
onboarded an intern on my team and on the topic of learning web development
in 2022, he was actually learning web development from scratch in 2022.
I just remember going into it, thinking, putting myself back.
My position when I was starting at tracing back, like, you know, we get
exposed to so many technologies that through time, you probably remember,
gold, grt, Webpac, all these things, what they are, and I'm like, it can
be overwhelming to somebody who's new.
And while I was going into this mentorship with this new intern on my team, I re
immediately thought about my struggles and I want them to see the beauty.
Of web programming, such as I see it cuz I've seen people who only seen a
glimpse and they've gotten stuck and maybe they didn't have the, the time
resources and mentors to stick it through.
And I'm like, oh man, we, we lost one here temporarily.
So timely to talk about learning, uh, the web in 2022, when I helped somebody
learn how to do that from scratch in 2020.
And maybe I could talk a little bit about that internship experience.
So, yeah, one thing that I think the technologies have gotten a lot better.
Since when we started, I started in 2016, and one technology that comes
to mind, and there's a lot of other alternatives, of course, is remix.
So remix the React, full Stack React framework.
And actually this intern, their task over the summer was to prototype remix.
For us, uh, at LinkedIn and what I really liked about Remix is that this person
could get a taste for the front end and the back end at the same time, back end,
meaning, you know, working on the servers for people who are new to all of this.
But it was just a, a nice experience seeing them become
a full stack software engineer.
In three months and come out wanting to explore more of the world of uh,
just full stack web development.
It was an awesome experience.
Eddie: That is awesome.
Yeah.
I actually am right now the website that.
Host this podcast is just like a random service provider, but I'm actually
building a website from scratch and I'm actually using Remix to do it.
And uh, yeah, it is really enjoyable and really easy, like
you said, to like do both things.
You're not having to do these crazy hops back and forth.
It's not like you're like, have this Java that's.
Spins up this, you know, angular web app or reactor app or whatever, like it
feels more like you're in P H P or like something like that where hey, it just
does everything and you know, you've got.
PHP everywhere.
And with Remix, like you just have a bunch of React and JavaScript everywhere
and uh, it's really fun to use.
Clifford: Awesome.
Glad to hear you using Remix, and it's, I've had a similar
fun experience with it as well.
Nice.
Eddie: Well, hey, as we wrap up this episode, um, we always love.
Here, if there's anything that you've been involved in or anything you've
worked on that you'd like to share with the community, that might be
Clifford: helpful.
Yeah, so for folks wanting to get into web programming, software engineering
in general, There are a lot more resources now for, for breaking into
the industry that I, I wanna share.
So at my company LinkedIn, there is a apprenticeship program called Reach.
So LinkedIn Reach is for folks trying to break into programming.
It could be project management as well.
There's like a data science track, there's an analyst track, but,
uh, LinkedIn has an apprenticeship program that you should check out.
You're trying to break into web programming other companies like Airbnb,
Amazon, there's a whole list now that also offer apprenticeship programs.
So I highly recommend you, you, uh, look into those, just the name
of the company, apprenticeships.
I think those what I'd leave off with, but feel free to reach out to me.
I'm eager to, to answer questions for, for new programmers and people
trying to break them to the industry.
Happy to be a resource
Eddie: too.
That's perfect.
And.
Yeah, I will include a link to, you know, some of the various apprenticeships
that are easy to find in the show notes.
I know in previous episode we've actually heard Twitter has one.
Um, Alex shared that in episode three.
He was at Wayfair before that, and Wayfair had an kind of.
Apprenticeship program as well.
So include those as well as LinkedIn and, um, some of the other popular ones.
So if you all are interested in checking that stuff out, head over
to the show notes, access that stuff.
And Clifford, thank you so much for just joining and chatting.
It's been a pleasure to get to know you, hear your story.
It's, it's really unique, so I've really just enjoyed
Clifford: chatting.
Yeah.
Thanks Eddie.
Uh, it was a blast talking.
Glad.
Here are some shared history in the development journey as well.
Eddie: Yeah, for sure.
Thank you for joining us for episode 36.
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Clifford: See,