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Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 27, 2019BrainStation Product Management Instructor Khaled Zaky is also a Director of Product Management at the Royal Bank of Canada. He wanted to share his knowledge, so he started teaching aspiring product managers on evenings and weekends, online and in Toronto. Khaled tells us how he uses real examples from his job to help hisContinue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 27, 2019Since Galvanize acquired Hack Reactor, you may be wondering what’s new about the Software Engineering Immersive. We sat down with Teddi Maull, who actually graduated from Galvanize in 2015 and now works as an instructor, to learn about the changes to curriculum, time commitment...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 26, 2019The Software Guild teaches data engineering courses for business analysts at companies that want to analyze a wider variety of data. Could data engineering be the next skill you need in your skillset? Software Developer Jonathan Frazier and Data Scientist Haythem Balti, both instructors atContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on September 17, 2021Thinkful has been offering job guarantees for their immersive courses since 2016, but now the online school is taking it a step further by launching income share agreements and living stipends which students don’t need to repay until they find a job. We sat down withContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 20, 2019Maybe you’ve played AR games like Pokemon Go, or tried out a VR headset, but do you know what it takes to build AR and VR products? As AR and VR become more ubiquitous in gaming, education, and healthcare, the need for AR and VR engineers who can build these products is likely to increase. In this guide to AR and VR, Carrie Ybay, a Software Engineer forContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 24, 2019After studying languages, and working as a translator in Turkey, Jacqlene Sifre started working for a tech company and saw the potential of software engineering. She wanted to learn to code, but didn’t want to quit her job, so she enrolled inContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on October 21, 2020Amy discovered her passion for marketing through non-profits, and decided she needed to formalize her skillset with a digital marketing bootcamp to take her career to the next level. She chose Springboard’s remoteContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on August 19, 2021After hiring six graduates from LearningFuze coding bootcamp in Irvine, California, BeSmartee co-founder Veronica Nguyen plans to hire more! Veronica tells us what she is looking for in new hires at the B2B FinTech company, howContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on October 17, 2019Tech Elevator has five campuses in the Midwest, preparing students from all backgrounds to transition into tech. We spoke with three instructors – Katie Dwyer from Cincinnati, Beth Campbell from Pittsburgh, and Margaret Green from Detroit – about the tech scenes in their cities, their teaching styles, and why they’re passionat...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 11, 2019Mark McIver is an instructor at DevMountain’s Web Development immersive bootcamp – a course he himself graduated from four years ago! We caught up with Mark and he shared how he’s transitioned from being a bootcamp student to a developer and now an instructor. Learn how he started coding, some of the industry trends he’s seeing...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 31, 2019In May the coding bootcamp industry got a lot of coverage in mainstream news including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In our latest podcast we discuss the new ways military veterans can learn to code, we look at three New York Times articles about coding bootcamps, and hear about a coding bootcamp facing closure. Income share agreements remained a hot topic, plus find out a...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 15, 2024When Nataly found out her job was being eliminated due to an acquisition, she realized it could be an opportunity to upskill and try entrepreneurship. Having enjoyed General Assembly courses in the past, Nataly decided to enroll in GA’s one-week remote intensiveContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 24, 2019Jacob began his professional life running a water polo club, but kept thinking about the coding he explored in community college. He decided to switch careers into software and enrolled at Holberton School! Jacob tell...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 24, 2019Alex was interested in coding throughout college but initially dismissed it, thinking that coding just wasn’t for her. But seeing the potential of technology while working for nonprofits, she decided to revisit software engineering, and loved it. Alex won the Edie Windsor Lesbians Who Tech Scholarship to attend Codesmith coding bo...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 31, 2019Being a Solutions Engineer at Datadog takes a unique combination of technical and soft skills. And since many Flatiron School graduates come armed with previous client-facing experience, Datadog has hired 8 of them for this role! We sat down with Avery Johnson, a Technical Solutions Recruiter fo...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 17, 2019Curious about landing data science interviews (and ultimately, a job) in Seattle? Today, we’re diving into the Seattle data science job market, the types of companies that are hiring, and advice about standing out in a crowded pool of applicants. Our panel will share advice from two different perspectives: Nathan Thompson is a graduate ofContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 13, 2019CD Baby is one of the largest music distribution companies for independent artists. As they’ve built out their technical team to support the 21st-century music industry with digital and streaming services, CD Baby has hired several bootcamp graduates fromContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 21, 2019Why is Lighthouse Labs changing their web development bootcamp curriculum again? In 2017 they lengthened the bootcamp to be 10 weeks long, and now it is becoming a 12-week program! Amy Mansell,Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on January 8, 2021Data Scientists need a whole toolbox of skills to be able to analyze and manipulate data on the job. One of those skills is Natural Language Processing (NLP), which helps machines understand and classify human speech and writing. To learn more, we asked Data Scientist Lauren Washington, who also mentors Thinkful data science ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 7, 2019Ashley had found success in social work but was searching for a job with less stress and more balance for her young family. She attended DigitalCraft’s 16-week full stack immersive bootcamp in Atlanta and is now an Associate Engineer withContinue Reading →
