As the world observes International Women’s Day on March 8th, it is a great reminder to celebrate the women that help drive Modus and support women in technology every day.
While many articles focus on the lack of women in technology, that is not the approach I want to take. I want to dive into how our team found their way to technology, the challenges they have faced, and the advice they would share with others looking to either make a career or job change.
At Modus, we are distributed and a Remote First company, made up of people from around the globe, including different races, religions, sexual orientations, backgrounds, genders, everything. We choose to celebrate what unites us rather than what could divide us. While women are a minority within tech and at technically focused companies make up just 30% of the workforce, we are seeing an increase in engagement and interest in the industry and at Modus. This is a positive trend and something to celebrate.
Technology consists of many different roles and jobs. It seems a lot of the time, the question is “Why are there not more women developers?” when I challenge that an equally important question would be “Why are there not more women technologists.” Personally, I have been in technology for 15 years, focused on product management, project management, QA, and now on the delivery and sales side. I have not desired to do engineering, but I still think of myself as a woman in IT. These roles are as important to technology as engineers and architects. It takes all roles to ensure success.
Women fill key roles at Modus to help drive our success, shape our culture, and find the best people on the planet for our company. I’d like to introduce some team members and share their stories. I will start with my own, as I find the more I share it, the more questions and curiosity I get.
Sarah McCasland – Director, Delivery Management
Location: Jefferson City, Missouri, USA, Remote
What, if any, university degree do you have?
I have a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an Emphasis in Marketing. I will begin my MBA program this Spring.
How long have you worked for Modus?
5 years in May! Been quite a ride … Stressful, fun, but extremely rewarding.
What are your day to day responsibilities?
Supporting sales, operations, and delivery. A little bit of everything, a lot of juggling.
What did your career path to IT look like?
A friend thought I would be a good fit to do manual UI testing and data validation testing for the company she was at, and helped me get an interview. I had no experience in IT whatsoever and never planned to have a career in it. I was scared to even apply, but I did it and got the job! I tried to learn as much as I could from my teammates and eventually gravitated toward the business analysis, project management, and product roles. I found I enjoyed Product most, and after filling that role at 2 previous companies, I decided I was ready to work remotely, which led me to Modus.
How did you find your role at Modus?
After having my third child, I decided that I needed to find a remote job, as I was spending a full work day a week commuting. It was cutting into other things I wanted and needed to be doing. I had done a ton of research and became passionate about finding an organization driven by results, not “ass in chair” time. I found Modus on flexjobs.com. I had never done consulting, but figured I should at least learn more about it before dismissing it. After speaking with our former recruiter about a Product Manager role, I was excited. The company was exactly what I was looking to join. Small enough to be scrappy, large enough to not worry about making payroll, and a ton of potential to grow and help shape Modus. The rest is history.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career?
To date, the biggest challenge I have had to face was deciding what I wanted to do. No one can make that decision for you. When you have many things you can do well, many people gravitate to wanting to do them all. As an organization grows and matures, that is not realistic. Deciding to leave the delivery side and move to the business side of Modus was a difficult decision for me, as I loved both. I could navigate very difficult clients successfully. I was conflicted, but I felt like I needed a different challenge. I still love both, but I do not regret the choice I made.
What is the most rewarding experience you have had since joining Modus?
When I started, we had about 45 people. We are now at 200. I’ve been active in a variety of ways to help foster that growth, from sales and recruiting to supporting the opening of new offices. As someone who is passionate about culture and remote work, it’s all about the people for me. Remote work is hard, and we do it extremely well while looking for ways to make things better, even when it’s admitting we made mistakes or missteps.
What advice would you give to other professionals and young women looking to have a future in Technology?
- Don’t limit yourself with regards to what technology is and isn’t. As the economy becomes digitally dependent, all companies are going to become technology companies. Keeping an open mind to how your skills fit into a digital world will serve you well. I have never written a line of code, outside of a Java class I was forced to take and HATED, yet I consider myself an integral part of most software projects at Modus.
- Own your career plan and growth. As I stated, you have to make decisions for yourself. That’s not to say you shouldn’t find mentors and/or advisors to help you. Their perspectives and advice can help you see things outside your purview. At the end of the day, the decision, dedication, and drive must come from within.
Gigliola Diener aka Gi – Global Talent Acquisition Manager
Location: Heredia, Costa Rica, Remote
What, if any, university degree do you have?
Public Relations University degree, and Master in Environmental Management.
How long have you worked for Modus?
Started in October 2019. Four months.
What are your day to day responsibilities?
My day starts with the talent needs that Modus has around the globe. I work with very talented technical recruiters (all women and a couple of mothers, by the way) that keep the wheel spinning to get new, awesome Modites. I started my role by implementing an ATS and working on setting up a new recruiting process. On a daily basis, my goals are how to keep recruiting with quality and maintain the best candidate experience despite the urgency of the roles. Our global department needs to be set up to succeed without burning us out. We must be able to hit the targets of our continuous and aggressive growth.
What did your career path to IT look like?
I worked for more than 4 years in one of the biggest technology companies and grew interested in the complexities of how Big Data and predictive analytics worked because that was the area that I was covering as a Staffing Manager. I needed to prove to myself and the rest of the team that I was able to understand their skills, so I started to do my own research on what a final product looks like. Guess what?! It was a challenge every day and I loved it. I understood that I was never going to be able to cover all the skills that technology brings. But I realized after taking a year of maternity leave that I was on the right path, and that I wanted to go back and look for a company that would give me growth opportunities.
How did you find your role at Modus?
Well, funny story. My husband sent me the link to a Linkedin job post that a local recruiter shared, and since I was looking for a remote company this was like a gift from heaven. I needed to do research and found out that while Modus was not well-known at the time, it had great reviews in Glassdoor, blogs from those who were going to interview me, and a culture of teaching and learning.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career?
Our careers as women get challenged as soon as we decide to be moms, and I had a hard time deciding which was the right direction: to be at home or keep growing. I paused my career; no regrets at all, but it was challenging to be back home, especially because I knew that I wanted to work in a global remote role with different cultures, travel, and keep learning.
What is the most rewarding experience you have had since joining Modus?
I feel rewarded every time that the team around me trusts my work. I love to get things done and I’m passionate about improving processes. This is the second time in my life that I have been able to create, but the first time I feel that we can change and improve things that aren’t working. Finally, I have someone that has my back since I started.
What advice would you give to other professionals and young women looking to have a future in Technology?
Go for it if you want to learn every single day! You will get to know mentors and you will have the opportunity to ask the most basic questions to the most clever minds.
Amy Wulforst – Business Analyst
Location: Rochester, New York, USA, Remote
What, if any, university degree do you have?
Masters in Public Administration.
How long have you worked for Modus?
In total over a year, but not all at once.
What are your day to day responsibilities?
As a Business Analyst in the product space, my overarching responsibility is to interact with stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand what problem or need the product we’re about to build will solve. Understanding what is required of the product and then communicating it in a clear way is a critical part of what I do. On a day to day basis, my life revolves around requirements: eliciting and defining requirements, documenting requirements, prioritizing requirements, getting feedback and approval on requirements, working with the technical folks to build and test the requirements. I repeat these requirements as necessary until the end of the product’s life.
What did your career path to IT look like?
Oh boy! I was in grad school when Windows 95 came out and I had NO idea how to use a mouse, so when I got a job in IT right after graduation my classmates were shocked. I had never considered IT, and was interviewing for jobs in Human Resources, but the universe had other plans. I moved to Raleigh, NC, and landed a job as a Technical Recruiter where I spent my days looking at resumes that made no sense to me. Our primary clients were large telecoms during the dot.com boom era, and I quickly became proficient in understanding the world of WANs, LANs, Cisco routers, TCP/IP and all things Internet-related. After a few years, I made the jump to a training company: Ziff Davis, for those of you who are old enough to remember PC Mag. After about a year with Ziff, I moved into a Product Management position working on one of the early online learning platforms. It was there that I fell in love with Product and never looked back!
How did you find your role at Modus?
I saw a posting online… on Indeed, maybe? I never heard of Modus but liked what I saw when I started researching them. In typical Modus fashion, I had three rounds of interviews, got the offer and started the job all within 10 days! We move fast around here.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career?
Hands down, the work-life balance. Remote work was a total game changer!
What is the most rewarding experience you have had since joining Modus?
I was at Modus on a contract and when it ended, I sadly moved on. About a year or so later I got an email asking if I was interested in coming back. Pretty sure that was the fastest email response I’ve ever sent. Modus is comprised of the smartest, most talented, and badass collection of people I’ve ever worked with. I was thrilled that they thought the quality of my work warranted a callback.
What advice would you give to other professionals and young women looking to have a future in Technology?
General Advice: Learn how to use your voice and advocate for yourself. Your voice is the most powerful tool you have, don’t be afraid to use it.
Technology Specific: Don’t discount IT because you don’t like math and/or science or don’t want to learn code. There are MANY important roles in IT that are not development related. Pick a large university, go online to their website and check out the list of Majors and Minors or check out the list of job openings at a large IT company. This will help give you an idea of the direction that technology is trending and some of the opportunities available.
Flor Cabello – Project Manager
Location: Córdoba Argentina, Remote
What, if any, university degree do you have?
I have an Engineering degree in Information systems from Universidad Tecnológica Nacional.
How long have you worked for Modus?
I have been part of the Modus family for a year and a month.
What are your day to day responsibilities?
My main daily goal is to check that the team is working smoothly. If there are any blockers, I work to get things unblocked as soon as possible. I also coordinate needed meetings, moderate and take notes for the team, and other activities like helping managing releases and communication with clients.
What did your career path to IT look like?
I studied Information Systems because I wanted to be an engineer and be part of the IT world, but while studying I discovered I didn’t like programming much. My first job was as a developer, using Visual Basic 6 and other Microsoft tools. After that, I passed through some big companies doing some more programming tasks focused on the maintenance of big systems and then worked as a technical writer. While doing this, I started reading and learning about testing and that’s how I became a QA engineer, getting the ISTQB foundation level approved in 2014. I spent several years as a QA for startups and big companies too, which I loved. But, I started trying other roles like Product Owner and Scrum Master, and now as a Project Manager, I am enjoying my career more than ever. It’s a whole new adventure for me! To try to do my best as a Project Manager, I’m doing training courses, and my plan for this year is to earn my PMP certificate.
How did you find your role at Modus?
I was looking for a remote work job, and a friend of a friend mentioned an awesome company he was working for. I asked him the name and sent him my resume. After that, I did some online research about the company and started the interview process for a manual QA position. I didn’t get the job at that time, but a year later I received another email from Modus for a similar position, and at that time I got the job. I started working as a manual QA for a client, then helped with a bit of everything in several internal projects. Now I have the honor to be a Project Manager for a big client and help with an internal project involving the migration of a recruiting tool.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career?
I like my job and what I do – something I need to pay special attention to is work-life balance since it’s easy for me to stay longer working, instead of going to the gym. Signing off the for day and continuing tomorrow is also something I’m trying to improve.
What is the most rewarding experience you have had since joining Modus?
Getting feedback from customers and coworkers expressing they feel good working with me and knowing that I am also helping them succeed is something that makes me happy. For the specific client project I am part of, it’s great to know that our work will generate a product that will have a positive impact on society.
What advice would you give to other professionals and young women looking to have a future in Technology?
Ask in your circle of friends and family about IT-related roles if you are curious, and don’t be afraid to start studying engineering. I wasn’t very good at math at the beginning, but when you learn to see its beauty, everything comes brighter. If you don’t like programming, no worries! There is a ton of work in our field that doesn’t involve writing code.
Emilia Muresan – Tech Lead
Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
What, if any, university degree do you have?
I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and a Master’s Degree in “Modeling and Simulation”.
How long have you worked for Modus?
A year and a half.
What are your day to day responsibilities?
Providing direction and guidance, delivering new features, tackling technical debt, etc.
What did your career path to IT look like?
I knew I wanted to pursue a career in IT pretty early on, and besides what I learned at school, I also started learning on the side, focusing more on the programming languages I liked best. After applying to a lot of job offers, I got a call-back from a small company and got hired as a “Web Developer”. I was the only one on the team with no prior work experience but I was willing to work hard and do my best. I was lucky enough to meet awesome people there and I learned a lot from each one, both on a personal and a professional level.
How did you find your role at Modus?
Tiberiu Cifor (General Manager at Modus’ Romania office), spoke very highly of Modus and suggested that it would be a great fit for me. He described the company values and goals: an environment that encourages continuous learning, being active in, and giving back to the open source community, challenging but rewarding work, and also finding and bringing on great people regardless of their location. These things closely align with what I believe in and value. After working together with Tibi for many years, I trusted his opinion and I came in for a discussion. Needless to say, I find myself working with Tibi again.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career?
While I have experience working with challenging clients, tight deadlines, and running SQL scripts directly on the production database 😉 I have to say my biggest challenge is my ongoing battle with time management. I have so many things I want to do, and I also have a tendency to say yes to things I’m passionate about, even when I know there’s a lot on my plate already. That’s something I’m trying to be better at.
What is the most rewarding experience you have had since joining Modus?
When I first joined Modus, I was a part of a fully remote team, where everyone was located in a different part of the world. This was a first for me and, to be honest, I was worried that it wouldn’t feel like a “true team” and that communication would be hard. Thankfully, we gelled well and made the most out of the time we had in common. We built trust and communicated and collaborated, even with thousands of miles between us.
I’m now part of another team, and my colleagues and I work out of the Modus office in Cluj, Romania. I cherish the atmosphere, the knowledge sharing, the opportunities for mentorship, and how we all strive to improve every day and celebrate the small wins which add up to big ones in the long run.
What advice would you give to other professionals and young women looking to have a future in Technology?
There’s a lot more in tech than development, but if you’re curious about it, you should give it a try! You never know where that might lead. Also, don’t let the fact that you don’t have a background in Computer Science stop you. We have folks here at Modus who studied music, literature, and art who are awesome software engineers.
Yasemin Cidem – Front End Engineer
Location: Eskisehir, Turkey
What, if any, university degree do you have?
I have a Bachelor in Computer Engineering.
How long have you worked for Modus?
In total a year and a half (but not all at once).
What are your day to day responsibilities?
My current responsibilities are developing views and integrating their functionalities on the UI side.
What did your career path to IT look like?
As soon as I graduated college, I wanted to find a job as soon as possible. I was so excited to do that. I found a job in a company that has small teams. My team leader always encouraged us to learn new things and develop the project with new technologies. Working at this company, I learned a lot of things and I tried to develop them. After I decided to work remotely, I worked at a startup company, where I had the chance to develop a mobile app with new hybrid frameworks. One day while I was investigating a bug via Stackoverflow, I looked through the job announcements, saw the React Native mobile developer job advertisement, and I applied for it. Then the Modus adventure started for me.
How did you find your role at Modus?
I found it on StackOverflow for the first time. And, I found it on our website page the second time.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career?
Before I worked at Modus, I worked at startup companies with small teams. When I started to work at Modus, this was a challenge for me, because I hadn’t worked with so many people from different places. Also, I love to learn new technologies and I want to contribute to the open source projects. So, another challenge for me is that sometimes I can’t find enough time to make a contribution.
What is the most rewarding experience you have had since joining Modus?
When I joined Modus, I started to work on a mobile application. I had great team members, and everyone was very friendly. Although I was working in a company like this for the first time, there were no tough times. Publishing the mobile application was a very rewarding experience for me. Additionally, while working at Modus, I have had the chance to contribute to one of our internal open source projects.
What advice would you give to other professionals and young women looking to have a future in Technology?
Be passionate about learning new things! In development, there are a lot of new things to learn. No matter what your background is or where you come from, you can always get a chance to do what you want.
Fanny Cespedes – QA Engineer
Location: Alajuela, Costa Rica
What, if any, university degree do you have?
I have a Bachelor in System Engineering with an emphasis on Quality Software.
How long have you worked for Modus?
A little bit more than a year already, time flies fast!
What are your day to day responsibilities?
Reviewing software requirements and preparing test scenarios, executing tests, analyzing test results on database impacts, errors or bugs, and usability more or less.
What did your career path to IT look like?
Computing and science were always two of the top topics I liked the most. Somehow, my dad always managed for us to have the latest technology at the time. I had the opportunity to use it. I played some games in Windows 95 or 98 in the late 90’s. My first career option was chemistry, because like I said, science was kind of my interest. But I didn’t enter chemistry, so I went for my second option, computer science. Once I finished university my first job was related to DBs, but after a year I decided to move into the QA area. At that moment I didn’t know what QA was, as ten years ago I believe it was a new concept in software development. But, I liked it and I’m looking forward to more tech stuff such as QA automation, which is my next goal.
I have no doubt that I challenged myself without knowing it. When I decided to enter computer science, it was definitely rough for a lot of circumstances, but there has been no day when I have not felt glad and blessed to select that path and do what I do.
How did you find your role at Modus?
It surprised me that Modus teams worked remotely, so this caught my attention. Also, I was looking for more challenges and opportunities to learn and grow professionally and of course personally, and Modus has a great open source experience and a company culture that I loved. While I’m working in QA, I’m also trying to catch up with automation tools in my current project, and am looking for new ways to learn.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career?
I would say confidence. It doesn’t mean that I’m not trusting in my skills and capabilities, but I have learned to believe that inequality, misogyny, chauvinism and a lot of other barriers not only on IT but in our society are changing in a positive way. I have faced all these things, but they are the same things that have made me grow personally and professionally, and I have confidence in a brighter future for everybody else.
I also struggled with life-work balance. When I found myself spending all the time at home, I decided to go back to the gym, do outdoor activities, catch up with friends and find new ways to chill out and de-stress. These changes definitely helped me out and it continues being a work in progress. Don’t get me wrong, I love working remotely, but you need to adjust to it.
What is the most rewarding experience you have had since joining Modus?
I’ve been finding myself doing different things. I’m not the kind of person who likes being the center of attention, I rather prefer being low profile. But, I ended up doing things that challenge myself and involve exposure. It’s always good to go beyond my comfort zone and find out for myself how capable I am of doing unexpected things. I can assure you this is due to Modus’ great culture, as you understand the people even when you are remote. Leaders, managers, teammates in general at Modus, really care, and they push you to learn new things.
What advice would you give to other professionals and young women looking to have a future in Technology?
You set your own limitations. With that said, always think beyond what you are capable of, and believe in yourself. Your limit is not even heaven or space, we already have reached that as a human race. With effort and consistency, you can achieve unimaginable things.
Georgia Filip – People Operations Generalist
Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
What, if any, university degree do you have?
I have a Bachelor’s degree in Letters – English and Japanese Language and Literature, a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, and an MA in Clinical Psychology.
How long have you worked for Modus?
Since February 1, 2018; 2 years and 2 months.
What are your day to day responsibilities?
My day to day responsibilities are quite diverse – from Talent Management to Office Management and offering support to Accounting.
What did your career path to IT look like?
It was an unexpected journey. My first contact with the IT industry was when I got my second full-time job, as an Assistant Office Manager in a product software company. This position required back-office assistance, but because it was a product company, I had to get familiar with the terminology and all the technicalities of the IT industry to be able to help. That period was the first time that I also started handling HR tasks for the RO office, and I knew that was the direction in which I wanted to grow professionally. It was a slow but steady learning curve, which offered me the opportunity to grasp and understand what an HR position requires.
How did you find your role at Modus?
I was lucky to have been contacted by the recruiter who was managing the positions for Modus Create Romania during that period. Modus had just opened an office in Cluj and they needed an Office Manager at that time. The initial role was a mixture of HR and administrative tasks, having to wear many hats within the organization. Looking back, I think this paved the way for my personal growth, by offering the opportunity to interact, work and learn from many departments. My current role is the perfect blend of the skills I have managed to learn during my tenure with Modus.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career?
My biggest challenge has been to learn how to prioritize and acknowledge when I needed help, while not allowing it to hinder my performance. IT was a whole new world, completely different from what I was both familiar and comfortable with, but it also allowed for amazing personal growth and continual learning. I had to accept that it was OK not to know and know “how” and “what” to ask to be efficient. There are no limitations to what we can learn. The limitations come from the amount of effort you are willing to put into something, whether it is a task, challenge, project or skill.
What is the most rewarding experience you have had since joining Modus?
If I were to consider only one experience as “the most rewarding”, it would be my entire Modus journey, from the opportunity to grow professionally, to setting personal goals, to receiving guidance and having my work acknowledged. Having the opportunity to work with a team of passionate and dedicated individuals makes it, of course, much easier.
What advice would you give to other professionals and young women looking to have a future in Technology?
Don’t let the fear of failing take over. If you never fail, it means you didn’t try. Look for a mentor and be patient. Learn as much as you can and ask questions to those who can teach you; learn from their experiences. It can be scary at the beginning and it may look like a minefield, but if this is what you want, don’t be afraid to try. Last but not least, have a plan. Know what you want and how you want to get there and be aware that it may be a long process to achieve that.
Vera Ginzburg – Product Strategist
Location: Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA, US
What, if any, university degree do you have?
MBA, Carnegie Mellon University and BS (Applied Economics and Finance), UCSC.
How long have you worked for Modus?
Since September 2019, but it feels like I’ve been here for much longer.
What are your day to day responsibilities?
As a Senior Product Strategist, I lead the team to drive outcomes for our client and help create the most impact possible for their customers. My current project is deeply personally rewarding as it’s helping solve one of America’s largest problems: consumer debt. I’m also helping build our evolving Strategy practice.
What did your career path to IT look like?
I started my career on Wall Street, and have worked my way through a variety of Business Analysis, Consulting, Marketing, Growth, Finance, and Product positions for both Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. I’ve discovered that I love helping companies grow and appreciate multinational working culture.
How did you find your role at Modus?
I was considering several executive-level positions in Silicon Valley, when Modus position came through – I did like the idea of a remote position, and after meeting with the team and finding out who my client would be, I realized that mission-driven outcomes, a professional stretch to this new role, a stellar culture, and the flexibility of remote work was a clear winner over the several lucrative offers I was pondering. Here I am, loving every day of it.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career?
Cultural challenges, especially as a woman in tech, have been an issue, especially if you happen to be assertive and/or in a position of power, and some political issues stemming from stereotypes and biases. I also struggled with life-work balance, especially after having a child, and often had to choose between career progression corresponding to my talents and having a balanced life with healthy career growth.
What is the most rewarding experience you have had since joining Modus?
Realizing how many people have benefited from the products we are building.
What advice would you give to other professionals and young women looking to have a future in Technology?
Make sure you find the right mentors. I didn’t do that and I wish I did. And, take care of yourself! Consciously choose to work super hard for a while if it’s exciting and serves your longer-term growth. I certainly didn’t regret doing it for a couple of years, as it afforded me the ability to have flexible and remote, yet impactful, work with the same company for over a decade, once my circumstances changed. Use your strengths, don’t neglect the importance of relationships and human courtesy, and don’t be too hard on yourself.
Lorena Vargas – Visual Designer
Location: Madrid, Spain
What, if any, university degree do you have?
I have a Bachelor of Social Sciences and Communications with an Emphasis in Audiovisual Production.
How long have you worked for Modus?
2 years this February.
What are your day to day responsibilities?
I’m a UX/UI Designer, usually, I work with external clients on their IT products creating user interfaces. But sometimes I also help to design Modus products and marketing items.
What did your career path to IT look like?
As an audiovisual producer, I played a lot with design and animation, and I worked in research. One day my boyfriend, an iOS developer, asked me to help him by correcting some things on an app design he was working on, and I loved it.
I started to read about user experience and UI and taught myself some design tools specific to UI designers such as Sketch. I started creating some personal ideas and helping friends with theirs while building my first UX/UI designer portfolio, until one day I landed my first job as a User Experience Designer.
At that time, in most parts of the world, the UX/UI designer position was very new, so even though I considered myself a very junior designer, a lot of times I had to teach myself and others new things.
How did you find your role at Modus?
I was looking for remote positions – I already had worked a year as a remote designer in a company, and that company didn’t have the adequate culture and maturity to take advantage of remote workers. I always thought that remote working was the future, so I started looking for better opportunities on the internet when I saw a Modus ad offering a UX/UI position.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career?
You will not find the amazing remote culture we have in Modus everywhere, so a lot of times I felt like I had double disadvantage working with less experienced companies, because I was a remote worker, and because I am a woman.
A lot of times it felt like because I was a remote worker my opinions and hard work weren’t taken seriously, and sadly, in some companies, because I was also a woman in a male-dominated IT environment, that was twice difficult.
What is the most rewarding experience you have had since joining Modus?
There have been a lot of rewarding experiences, but what I have liked the most is the amazing remote culture Modus has. You never feel left out, and you always feel respected. It’s been incredible the amount of learning I got from the other designers on the Modus team. They love to share and to help you grow, and I have learned at Modus the same or even more than in the rest of my career.
What advice would you give to other professionals and young women looking to have a future in Technology?
Don’t be afraid of not knowing things, especially at the beginning. No one knows everything, and you can keep learning even while working. You have to always be willing to read, explore, and experiment.
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Those are the stories of just some of the women who make up our global, world-class team. I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I enjoyed talking to everyone!
