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Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 17, 2024Thom Strub worked in a jewelry store, at a local art school, and as a bartender before he enrolled in General Assembly's Software Engineering Immersive. Find out how expectations met reality for Thom, his advice on knowing when you’re ready to enroll at a bootcamp, and how he landed his first job as a Salesforce D...Continue Reading →- Jess FeldmanUpdated on July 6, 2022Learning data engineering is only the first step in breaking into the industry – bootcamps like Jigsaw Labs have externship programs in place to help students get real-world experience. And it takes forward-thinking companies like Cred Protocol to hire and train students in those externships. Find out...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on July 20, 2022For nearly a decade, Jeanette Au has been working in banking as an analyst, but when her job started to feel stagnant, she looked to tech to find a more fulfilling career path. Excited by the creativity and problem-solving found in the UX Design career, Jeanette enrolled in the part-time, onlineContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 13, 2023Learn what these five bootcampers wish they had known before they went to a bootcamp – how expectations met reality, how they actually got their first jobs, what surprised them about the teaching style, and whether the experience at Coding Temple,Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on June 29, 2022Course Report · June 2022 Coding Bootcamp News Roundup Happy Summer! This June, tech hiring was at an all-time high despite news of layoffs and hiring freezes. We caught wind of four workforce developments for aspiring bootcampers in California, Mon...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on December 3, 2024Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing field as employers across all industries look for qualified candidates. With years of experience helping career changers, Eleven Fifty Academy experts, Pat Rhodes (Vice President of Career Services) and Nick Birch (Co-Founder and Vice President of Learning) share their top...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on June 22, 2022Flatiron School Data Science Instructor, Lindsey Berlin, has a passion for learning as much as she can about data science and sharing that with her students. Lindsey knows what it takes to succeed in Flatiron School’s intensive data science bootcamp and shares how...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 23, 2022Gwen was a mechanical engineer working in aerospace before pivoting into software development. She chose to make the career change withContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on June 16, 2022Flatiron School is celebrating its 10-year anniversary and graduating over 10,000 technologists! To mark the milestone, we spoke with Carla Stickler, a Broadway st...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on June 15, 2022Three years after graduating from The Coding Boot Camp at UT Austin (offered in collaboration with edX) we caught up with Software Engineer Melissa Cadena on how her boot camp experience continues to drive her career. Even without a college degree, Melissa shares howContinue Reading →
