Women in Tech, #10: Non Linear Careers and Winning Negotiation Coding Games

If you love technology, are passionate about coding and empowering diversity in the tech world - come join us for our 10th “Women in Tech Forum” meetup.

** Please notice the meetup's location: Bitan 26, Namal Tel Aviv.

Check out our dedicated YouTube playlist with all videos from previous meetups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7L_2VkfR4&list=PL_dMh3xjQSU9jQQgmE0WdVn8a36lNBErl

The forum will be held in Hebrew and it is open to both women and men.

// Schedule:
18:00 - 18:30 - Gathering, drinks and food
18:30 - 19:30 - The battle of the techies - developers vs product managers / Dalia Simons
19:30 - 19:40 - break
19:40 - 20:30 - Let's Play a Game - the Haggling Coding Competition/ Nurit Moscovici & Yulia Stolin

// The battle of the techies - developers vs product managers / Dalia Simons

As developers we aspire to write the perfect projects: Have a proper design, write elegant code, use the best technology etc. And then life get’s in the way: strict deadlines from management, old projects that aren’t written properly, technical limitation of projects. In this talk, I will give a Critical view of the relationship between product managers / Management and developers and try and give some useful advice on how to bridge that gap. Share some ideas of what to compromise on and what not, how to plan the project so we can eventually get closer to our dream project and not end up with a Meh project.

// Let's Play a Game - the Haggling Coding Competition - Nurit Moscovici & Yulia Stolin

Haggling is a negotiation game, it consists of rounds of negotiation between pairs of players trying to agree on how to split a set of assets, while striving to maximize their score.
In Outbrain we used haggling as a coding challenge in the form of a hackathon which swept up the entire R&D organisation; keeping everyone playing, strategising, coding, hacking & learning - all in two weeks of pure energy and fun. The winning team (out of 41 teams!) was interestingly comprised only of women engineers. Our secret sauce? Both in our teamwork and game strategy was - collaboration!
In this talk we'll tell you more about the haggling game, how we leveraged it as an R&D organisation wide learning activity, and how we won!
Bio

/// Dalia Simons is an experienced software engineer, writing backend code has been her passion and career for the last 13 years.
She is a senior server tech lead and guild master @ Wix
Dalia believes that keeping your code simple and readable is the key to easily maintaining it over time

/// Nurit Moscovici: recently finished an MSc cum laude at the Technion in the field of concurrent data structures for the GPU. She joined Outbrain six months ago as a Software Engineer in the Smartfeed team in a "hybrid" between backend and algorithmic. Before Outbrain Nurit built C++ Embedded programs and highly enjoys the challenge of transitioning to the world of big data. Nurit’s additional passions are painting or reading.

/// Yulia Stolin has more than 13 years of hands-on experience in software architecture, specializing in building high volume, scalable, high-performance, distributed data services and systems. She has deep expertise in Big data, NoSQL products, Software architecture and development. She has been working at Outbrain as an Architect in Recommendation Group for almost 3 years. Proud mother of 2 sones and loves traveling with the family, playing tennis, and swimming.