Landing Your Dream Developer Job with Emma Bostian

In this Honeypot mini-doc, we follow Emma Bostian as she relocates to Stockholm to start her dream job at Spotify. She talks about her journey from early days as an uncertain college graduate, to her work at IBM, to what she’s doing now as a tech influencer, podcaster and Spotify engineer. Plus, Emma opens up about her personal career struggles and how her new move has changed things. If you love Emma (and Max Stoiber), you're gonna love them even more after watching this mini-doc.
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[@MaxStoiber]

So excited this is finally out, I love Emma's story! Very happy I could play a tiny part in telling it 💜

[@vivekkaushik9508]

Wow! This video gave me HOPE. I've been thinking of quitting my job lately. I guess I'll have to find a good one where I feel I belong! Thanks Emma.

[@MahmoudAbdelwahab]

I reaaally love seeing these videos. Seeing someone succeed and grow makes me super happy. Go Emma!

[@TheMenny10]

I personally admire Emma Bostian a lot.

[@arjunkashyap8896]

Honeypot notification makes my day

[@Honeypotio]

😍

[@vivekkaushik9508]

@@EmmaBostian Hi Can I connect to you on insta?

[@wolfymaster]

Been following Emma on twitter for a while... didn't realize everything she did. Pretty much everything I would love to do, but have no idea how.

[@romanortynskyi]

Every video by Honeypot is an indescribably pleasant experience. The most inspiring for me is when you show that we can be whatever we want to be which means NOT ONLY a software engineer. I would like to see more stories of people who are not just developers but also ARTISTS.😉

[@Honeypotio]

Thanks Roman, we’ll do our best! 💕

[@Giregar]

I like Emma. Because of here course on frontendmasters, I started to deep dive into Design Systems. It's now a major part of my business as UX Engineer. But 8:23 made me think: Learning algorithms just for the interview, but not using them at the job in most cases feels somehow wrong. An interview closer to the real job is always better in my opinion. If it's a job for instance in the AI business, I get it, algorithms are bread and butter.

[@scriptydude]

She's so active and inspiring! Are you going to do similar docs with the list: Kelly, Ali... and other unique tech Rockstars?

[@john-mac]

Lovely and motivating story. Love to see super-girls taking charge and hack their way through a career like this. I will be sharing this as a "mentoring video" in my CreatorsTribe community.

[@EricNeuls]

Congrats Emma!!!! You're an inspiration to us fellow Siena Grads!!

[@klokibril]

came for the interview, stayed for cat footage

[@JoseChavez-nw2br]

jaja jaja greetings, I saw you in a React course and I didn't believe you existed, you are real!!! Greetings from Mexico, Oaxaca, congratulations on your podcasts

[@ashutoshgupta4033]

This video is exactly what I needed right now.

[@Ролтун]

You know what surprises me? There are some design theories and system design and so on. But when I look at the interfaces of such large corporations as Windows, Facebook, KZbin, I always see UI flaws. Then what's the point of studying them?

[@cag1]

i love these kind of docu/interview mix kind of videos. really well done!

[@mosesnandi]

Honeypot...Consider adding subtitles to these videos.

[@dwightschrute2753]

Emma, you're an inspiration.

[@SM-ok3sz]

Why

[@ManuLuck82]

I followed her Javascript course on LinkedIn Learning last month! She's adorable! 🙂👍

[@xavierperez6739]

Excellent, excellent work as always. Thanks for making this kind of content!

[@dungaland]

Hi, Emma. Greetings from Kenya 🇰🇪❤️

[@dungaland]

It's an honor. Thank you

[@shaunrashidYT]

Great video and story, Emma. Thanks for sharing.

[@mreyybree]

A few suggestions: I wish there was a high-res camera for Max, too. Also maybe drop the webcam view? Great content though.

[@muctar_s]

This was really interesting and valuable to watch. Thank you!

[@vaasudhand3200]

One thing that I would say after watching this video is... "Nice Keyboard Girl!"

[@theguywhoiscoding9912]

damn that keyboard was fire! If anyone knows what keyboard this is hmu :D

[@gilbertsenyonjo963]

Form Design Patterns. Interesting...

[@kaleighjs]

Great video! This was super cool to watch and inspiring!! 🐞

[@bitbraindev]

What a great engineer. Awesome interview / mini-doc.

[@tannerbarcelos6880]

We love frontend software engineering !

[@vladimir_dev]

Good one! Keep them coming! 😉

[@moritzgro2442]

I'd love to also see some content about people not working on web-related stuff, like machine learning or game dev.

[@Honeypotio]

Thanks for your suggestions, they sound interesting indeed! 😏

[@BJWeNeedUDefendingUsWithZeMG42]

Web dev AND cats? Love it!

[@ChampionRunner]

Amazing work and experience Sharing ❤️

[@vivekkaushik9508]

Now that's a life I dream of. I'm also a software developer from India. It's depressing here.

[@l2ob1222]

Move :)

[@leonf8199]

Dude, move to europa or america

[@albinsjolin649]

Follow Emma's footsteps and join us developers here in Stockholm!

[@vivekkaushik9508]

Not that easy especially during these times. But I'm sure it'll get better. I belive in destiny.

[@leonf8199]

@@vivekkaushik9508 yeah but you can do it. Find a company over linkedin and make certificates that proofes you skill. Then it wont be difficult to get hired, and if hired its way easier to get here

[@marshmallow3268]

Very inspiring! Thanks Emma

[@farhan_2467]

Can't wait for Sveltejs documentary...

[@mohamethseck]

Where can I find her e-book on passing the interview?

[@rishabincloud]

Oh '333'rd like! was waiting for this since the podcast came out!

[@mahmoudsaidahmed5329]

Go on...Digitals is the future of world ...simply Icons

[@obinna_okechukwu]

Hello. Emma mentioned she wrote a book on passing technical interviews, I’m wondering where I can find it. Thanks

[@obinna_okechukwu]

@@EmmaBostian Thank you 🤗

[@ClydeDCruz_zurCDedylC]

There's Luna!

[@gilbertsenyonjo963]

I think I've seen a presentation by that guy. Just don't recall it

[@Saaad2]

I swear by Angular that she is pretty.

[@josephwong2832]

Love Emma on dev twitter!

[@victordililah]

She is a cool developer!

[@islamicsolution5618]

Emma did you learn software engineering from freecodecamp please

[@syedaminx]

Anyone know what that keyboard is called?

[@syedaminx]

@@EmmaBostian thanks!

[@mahmoudsaidahmed5329]

2008 trip advisor ...Booking.com ...news letter ...Expedia ...amazon and others are my results

[@JohnnyUtah269]

such a nice mic but the audio sounds so weird....

[@abhishekgautam7349]

1:02 isn't stockholm in sweden?

[@virgiliogervacioestadillo1389]

React is a lot easier than vue if you are really good at javascript.

[@facundorodriguez92]

excellent!!

[@SajadJalilian]

Where can I find her ebook?

[@SajadJalilian]

@@EmmaBostian thank you so much for all of your efforts

[@mahmoudsaidahmed5329]

The future of Java is how to replace old alphapetic or numerics with Icons...that will be the future is digital

[@saideepesh6036]

Hey we want documentary on React

[@Honeypotio]

I know you do 😉 there are some crazy stories behind the creation of React.

[@saideepesh6036]

@@Honeypotio excited 🔥🔥

[@__goyal__]

@@Honeypotio what are we waiting for!?

[@devtanna77]

(1:50) "the backend is not a graphical user interface" 🤷‍♂️

[@brianmanden]

"building out the architecture with HTML" 🤔

[@eskimo6097]

Honeypot and chill

[@511cvxzlugynskii3]

I had no idea that Keira Knightley is a developer.

[@Trance_Code]

Cool, so good... now waitig yet for Laravel dev... Taylor Otwell

[@Honeypotio]

If we make a Laravel documentary do you promise to watch it? 👉👈🥺

[@Trance_Code]

@@Honeypotio Absolutely, i'm waiting for that... is one of best for me, like the Evan You documentary... i promise

[@Honeypotio]

💪 glad to hear! We have been thinking about doing a Laravel documentary since we met Taylor in New York. We have a few big projects lined up for the next few months but we are definitely considering Laravel for next year. Stay tuned 😉

[@RoshanKrSoni]

I love this #Motii

[@kareemjeiroudi1964]

Emma Bostian 11:26 is using Slack. There you go. Every f*cking developer out there is using Slack for better in-epic communication. Why the heck does our company not understand that?

[@nightowl1596]

The cat!

[@saugatrajbhandari4247]

we want django documentry?

[@rolandixor]

We do?

[@pajriaprilio6348]

Cat on 13:07

[@isaacsouza17]

damn... she is so cute

[@oussamaghrib4558]

But she's the one from ibackpack scam so...

[@dextercube1822]

You single? LOL Fellow coder here :)

[@leonf8199]

nice keeb

[@stevejobs5919]

if you check this woman's twitter developer account, she spews more hate more than she spreads developer knowledge (: don't believe me, check her twitter page.

[@neerajsinghtangariya2587]

Imposter syndrome..............who is facing with it....:)

[@reubenwyoung]

This is terrible. You learn nothing. More of the same, selling a lifestyle. Plus she loved writing an ebook and making an editor but didn't love it until working at Spotify?? How does she combine her work with music? Other than playing spotify in the background while she codes, how is this accomplished? Just more corporate PR and propaganda, 14 and a half minutes and I learned nothing. Not even any resume tips for people considering working in the field. What schools? What field of study? What real life struggles beside lacking passion?

[@Honeypotio]

Seems like somebody has been eating a bit too much peanutbutter and jelly. 😉If you're not a fan of this format then maybe you prefer Emma's 5 tips on breaking into the industry: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGKbmn2Prbysadk

[@SM-ok3sz]

Well that’s 15 minutes I’ll never get back.

[@rolandixor]

Good. You clearly weren't planning to use it wisely anyway.

[@amoghnath3330]

Soy devs