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Imogen CrispeUpdated on February 14, 2018Not everyone gets into coding bootcamp on their first try. Even though Valerie Moy had been working in tech operations for five years, and had taught herself some code, she struggled in the Hackbright Academy coding challeng...Continue Reading →- Lauren StewartUpdated on February 2, 2024You’ve heard the terms UX/UI Designer and Web Developer, but do you understand the differences between these tech roles? Here's what you should consider when choosing between UX/UI Design vs Web Development, the types of jobs you could land after a bootcamp, and the soft skills you’ll need in each role. Professional UX Designer and EducatorContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on February 8, 2018Since WeWork acquired Flatiron School in October 2017, the bootcamp has started taking advantage of the opportunities the new partnership brings. A month after the acquisition, Flatiron School’s online students received comp...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 7, 2018Scot Sustad is the CEO of Digital Hot Sauce, a Vancouver-based digital growth agency. He’s always looking for new hires with practical experience (think hands-on experience with SEO, PPC, email marketing, copywriting, and design), which is why he’s already hired threeContinue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on February 5, 2018As a college sophomore, Noah came up with a great idea for a tech startup. But when he wasn’t learning enough practical skills in his Computer Science degree to build his idea into a product, Noah enrolled inContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on February 2, 2018What do tech recruiters want? It’s a difficult question for a new coding bootcamp grad to answer, so we asked a former recruiter to give us some insight. TJ Kinion is the Program Manager at LearningFuze coding bootcamp in Southern...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 3, 2024What will your salary be after coding bootcamp? Coding bootcamps are judged almost entirely by their ability to find students high-paying jobs as web developers. Some schools release data about alumni jobs, others offer money-back job guarantees or deferred tuition, but how much are students earning when they graduate and how does their earning potential change as they gain experience? Every ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on July 16, 2021Welcome to the first News Roundup of 2018! We’re already having a busy 2018 – we published our latest outcomes and demographics report, and we’re seeing a promising focus on diversity in tech! In January we saw a significant fundraising announcement from an online bootcamp, we saw journalists exploring why employers should hire bootcamp and apprenticeship graduates, we read about comm...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on December 4, 2024Women make up only 24% of the tech workforce, and this number could shrink to 22% over the next 10 years. The US isn’t just lacking women in tech, there’s a general shortage of tech talent: universities only graduate about 52% of the technology workforce needed...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on January 25, 2018Designation is a UX/UI bootcamp that has been building up the Chicago design community since 2013, and recently moved into a new WeWork classroom. We asked the Designation team to share their reasons behind the move, how students will fit int...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on January 23, 2018Did you know that by leaving a Verified review of your coding bootcamp experience on Course Report, you’re entered to win a $500 Amazon Giftcard? This time, our lucky winner was Gretchen, who graduated from online bootcamp <...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on January 22, 2018A 12-week, immersive bootcamp is a long time to be away from a job and personal commitments. After hearing feedback from students, Hackbright Academy wanted to offer their students a chance to learn and change...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on November 27, 2024Most high-salary industries need more diverse workers, and tech is no exception. The conversation about diversity in tech usually focuses on gender, diversity encompasses racial, socioeconomic, cognitive, and experiential differences.Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 18, 2018Throughout her career as a software engineer, Neha Jain has understood that learning by doing is more relevant to programming than theoretical exams. Now an engineer at LinkedIn (and a recipient of the CloudNow Women in Cloud Innovation award), Neha is p...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on April 7, 2021Alex Nugent was already working in tech as an Applications Engineer, but when he wanted to transition into full-time programming, he knew he would need more structure to change careers. Alex soon discovered the world of online coding bootcamps, and continued working full-time, while studying part-time with The Software Guild’s...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 15, 2024As an instructor at General Assembly’s Data Science Immersive, Phillippa Thomson not only teaches the basics like Python and SQL; she’s also digging deep into neural networks and ensuring that her students become eth...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 28, 2017In our End of Year Podcast, we're rounding up the most interesting news of 2017 and covering all the trends, thought pieces, controversies and more. Many schools are hitting their 5 year anniversaries – a reminder that although there is a lot going on in this industry, it’s still nascent and there is still room for new innovative approaches to the bootcamp model. We’ve chosen...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 20, 2017After receiving valuable employer feedback, online coding bootcamp Bloc has taken the best parts of its two previous curriculums and combined them into the new and improved Web Development Track! The Bloc team has also added increased real-time mentor sup...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 3, 2024As an avid fan of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, Turing School student Ellen Cooper and her friends used spreadsheets to predict the outcomes of each season. When she started learning to code, she used her new skills to build a custom fantasy-football-style league application for her friends to play. At <...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 14, 2017Working in Silicon Valley, Vannaro Lim is always trying to find ways to encourage more diversity on engineering teams – that’s how he was introduced to all-women’s coding bootcamp Hackbright Academy! He’s hired a nu...Continue Reading →
