On Monday, October 28th, representatives from Facebook came to give a presentation on various internship and job opportunities for university students. Recruiter Roby introduced Facebook University, a program designed for 1st and 2nd year students which teaches iOS development. He also explained Facebook’s Bootcamp program, in which participants can pick
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On Monday, Oct 21th, company representatives from Honey hosted an information session about their company and opportunities available this upcoming summer. Many of the representatives graduated from UCI, including WICS alumni Brooke Ly. They emphasized how they focus on work life balance, diversity, and the mentorship and growth of their
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On Friday, Oct 18, reps from Zillow Group came to DBH to host a Zillow Interview Workshop! After everyone grabbed pizza and swag, Monique, a recruiter, and Usha, a software engineer, led a presentation about the kind of work that Zillow does and how to approach technical interviews. Attendees asked
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On October 15, 2019, WICS hosted its annual event “WICS Games!” Company representatives from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Raytheon, Twilio, and Paciolian joined WICS members in a night of networking and solving puzzles. Before the games started, participants got to enjoy some delicious food from Stone Fire Grill while networking with
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On Friday, October 11, 2019 WICS hosted an informal social for general members that were interested in applying to WICS Committee. All 12 of our board members and a few of our current WICS committee members gathered at University Town Center to meet interested applicants. We broke off into groups
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On Monday, October 9th, WICS hosted a mentorship mixer, the first of many mentorship events to come! Over 160 applied for mentorship, and over 110 attended! As the event commenced, attendees were given bingo cards, which encouraged everyone to mingle and find others with common interests or classes while more
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Last Monday, September 30th, WICS hosted its first General Meeting for fall quarter. One hundred fifty people RSVP’d for this event! Members had a chance to grab some pizza and drinks and socialize with other members, as well as committee and board members. Co-presidents Cheyenne Chavez and Sharon Hsu led
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On Monday, June 3rd, WICS had Amazon representatives host an Amazon Alexa Workshop. The engineers guided everyone through the process of creating a skill for Alexa! The skill that we were creating would allow us to ask Alexa: “Who is Pokemon 25?” or variations of that question. There were some
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On Monday, May 20th, WICS hosted a Game Night, where there were several games and activities that people could play and bond over. The games included online trivia games, card games, and role-play games. All of them required strategy and thinking, but were also very relaxing for the people and
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On Friday, May 17th, WICS members went to tour at the Slalom office in Irvine! We were greeted by Mike Hernandez and the Technology Enablement team, who showed us around the office and gave us a presentation of what they do as a business and consulting firm. We had a
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