In this episode of the Fresh Engineer Podcast I’m talking to Liz Rowe who is a mechanical engineer turned self-taught Data Science Manager working at Intel in Oregon in the United States. She also runs a YouTube channel reviewing software products with over 3.000 subscribers. In our conversation we talk about why you should give yourself MORE homework as an engineering student if you want to graduate top of your class, why you should focus on the manager and not the company when picking a job, how she jumped 5 career levels from estimation engineer to regional director by strategically switching companies, how she taught herself how to code and that led to her being offered a job as data science manager at Intel, and how having a YouTube channel has opened doors for her engineering career she never imagined.