From 200 rejections to 3x growth and 🧟 learn Blockchain Programming by building a zombie army

We'll dive in Siddharth's journey & his experience with Pesto in this AMA

This Saturday, I will be there with Siddharth (Pesto alum who went from 200 Job rejections to 3x Growth) for a Pesto Townhall Session.

You can bring your questions, comments, and community initiatives to help you in your coding journey 🚀

🌐 RSVP here 👉  ​​https://lu.ma/k9e3rwy7

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👥 The Friendship That Made Google Huge

“Yeah, when founders these days say that "no engineering bandwidth" in reply to why is pairing not a culture, I just throw this New Yorker piece at them. Like bruh, Google's 2 senior-most engineers built it on the bedrock of pair programming 🥲" / Arnav Gupta on Twitter

💉 Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen 

The first solution that we draft is generally not the best version of ourselves. It’s only when we iterate, that we write better code. This talk is an excellent step-by-step intro to refactoring cruddy code. Please do watch it!

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🧑‍🍳 Pesto Corner

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Siddharth Anand is one of the Pesto Alumni, in the early stage of his career he got rejected by 200 companies, but that didn't stop him from learning & working harder.

He enrolled in one of Pesto's programs & getting graduated got a 3x hike on his salary, Siddharth says that money is a byproduct of the inputs you give to learn and bring the best out of you.

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Looking forward to seeing you in the community!

Ayush, Avi & the Pesto team!