Welcome to the Code to be podcast.

We talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.

I'm your host, Sauron, and today we're talking about the journey from a boot camp to a

fang with Alex Lee, front-end engineer at Amazon.

I went from getting paid peanuts to quitting my job to suddenly now working at Amazon.

So it definitely is like a journey.

And for me, I look at the totality and go out.

Like this journey has been so good and I can't wait to see what else is next.

Alex shares would make him pivot away from mechanical engineering,

turn down multiple law school offers and instead enroll in the flat iron coding boot camp

after this.

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thank you for having me. So let's start from the beginning. Tell us a little bit about your

life growing up.

Was technology? Was coding a big part of your childhood? So coding wasn't a huge part of my childhood.

Even in high school, I tried to avoid the computer science classes.

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