In this week’s episode we talk to Abdel, a final year medical student from UCL who shares his journey into medical school and Google. Tune is as we discover his passion for coding and how early mornings and long hours was the key to founding a startup which was incubated at Facebook. We discover how a highly competitive internship at Google finally made him realise how much he loved the role of a product manager, as he now embarks on his new career path. Abdel shares with us the moment when he nearly lost the opportunity to do an MSc in computer science and the steps he took to eventually secure a place.
In this episode, hear the tips and tricks on how to get into coding, secure internships and the grit it took to turn a No into a Yes.
Abdel Mahmoud is an incoming Google product manager and final year medical student at UCL. His previous startup was incubated at Facebook when doing an MSc in computer science. Prior to that he graduated Sandhurst as the youngest infantry army officer in the UK at age 19. Abdel also founded and presided over UCLs first Leadership and Management Soceity. His sports and hobbies include represented UCL nationally for triathlon and completing an Ironman.
LinkedIn: Abdel Mahmoud
Learn more about Scrubbed In:
Twitter - @ScrubbedIn_
Instagram - @Scrubbedin_
Download the PodCases Mobile app now - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/podcases-by-scrubbed-in/id1535819930
PodCases lets you Step into the shoes of Doctors to experience medicine. Listen to high quality audio cases and reinforce your learning with interactive quizzes.