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I’m a Filipino-American woman who grew up in a lower-to-middle class family in Daly City, right outside of San Francisco. I spent my junior year of high school at an upper middle class suburb in Roseville, CA, and I firmly believe it was that year in school and a free SAT class (which would not have been available where I’m from) that almost singlehandedly got me into UC Berkeley, which opened the doors to a contract role at Google and then to my current role at Dropbox. Okay. So let’s start from the beginning. Tell me a bit about your early years and where you come from. Yeah. So I grew up in Daly City. So it’s a suburb right outside of San Francisco. So definitely, now, I claim to be a San Franciscan. But regardless I have seen this city sort of change both for good, for bad. It’s quite different, I’m sure that everyone can sort of speak to that. I grew up probably middle class. My mom had a little bit more—my mom was actually the only primary breadwinner in the family. My dad didn’t

Techies About Submit Jan Crisostomo Years in Tech 4.5 Current Role Recruiter, Dropbox Place of Origin San Francisco Interview Date March 5, 2016 I’m a Filipino-American woman who grew up in a lower-to-middle class family in Daly City, right outside of San Francisco. I spent my junior year of high school at an upper middle class suburb in Roseville, CA, and I firmly believe it was that year in school and a free SAT class (which would not have been available where I’m from) that almost singlehandedly got me into UC Berkeley, which opened the doors to a contract role at Google and the

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