Find out how Egress CEO Tony Pepper started out in the tech industry:
"As a Politics graduate, I took a more unusual route to having a career in the tech industry. Watch my short video below to find out how a chance visit changed everything and put me on this path."
Transcript:
I suppose I got into technology a little bit late I guess. At university, I studied politics for my undergrad and wasn't one of the guys that was in the labs, as it were, at the time using tech. But I graduated and then subsequently went on to study for a master's in software engineering because I felt like there was an opportunity to get involved in the tech industry because it seemed exciting. My brother was in the tech space and he seemed to have much more exciting career prospects and I did. So that's kind of where I started really. And so I remember well being about the least technical guy on the post-grad course where I was really behind everyone in the class. It was pretty tough actually to kind of get through that. But what I realized, which I suppose I even surprised myself, is how much I absolutely loved it. I mean coming from an arts background where everything's debatable and there's no real right or wrong answers, it's quite refreshing to go straight into a kind of real tech role where you're learning how to code and it either compiles or it doesn't, it works or it doesn't work. There may be elegant ways to do that, but I just found it refreshing and it gave me a real focus. So when I left university I knew that the only thing I needed to do was join a tech business.