iOS software engineer

Alex Margate* is a senior iOS software engineer with over 7 years of experience. She works at a technology company that has over 100,000 employees. She’s on a sub-team of 3 software engineers, within a larger team of 50 engineers.

She grew up working with computers, during a time when you could easily customize your personal websites and social pages. In college, she was deciding between psychology and computer science, “I ended up going into psychology because I really enjoy psychology and still study it today but thought the math in computer science wouldn’t be something I would be interested in.” After a while, she decided that she needed to make a change and switched her major to computer science. “For me, money meant safety, and I knew that this career path would provide me stability. And I enjoyed being on computers, so why not get paid to do it?” During that time, she started getting involved in the start-up...