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Lauren StewartUpdated on June 20, 2017Shane Sniteman graduated from The Iron Yard coding bootcamp 2.5 years ago and is now leading a team in his second job as a mobile app developer. After working in finance at a Big 4 accounting firm and in graphic design for financial pu...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 13, 2024In the past year, SaaS company Bazaarvoice has hired more than 10 General Assembly graduates into Impl...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on October 21, 2020Jay Wengrow founded part-time web development bootcamp and apprenticeship program Actualize in Chicago in 2014 to make learning to code efficient and accessible. Now the coding bootcamp has campuses in New York and Sa...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 15, 2017As an experienced recruiter, Ceren Nomer knows how to get coding bootcampers in the door at tech companies, and she brings that perspective to her students as Head of Career Success at Fullstack Academy. We sat down with Ceren to fi...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 14, 2017“I want to see more women in the tech industry, because the more women who work in this field, the safer and better it is for everyone.” Kate Humphrey has a background in technology consulting, and enrolled inContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 4, 2024For some students, the traditional 12-week, full-time coding bootcamp may not seem like enough time to acquire the skills that employers want. As the coding bootcamp industry has evolved, longer coding bootcamps such as Turing, Galvanize, C4Q, Ada Developers Academy, Learner's Guild, C...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 12, 2017Justin Marsh enjoyed traveling the world as a professional poker player, but when he hit 30, he wanted to transition to a more settled career in software engineering. After attempting to teach himself, Justin felt he needed more guidance when he got stuck, so he enrolled inContinue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on June 7, 2017Sean Renton did one year of college and decided that it wasn’t for him. He then practiced massage therapy for five years, but still felt stuck. Sean saw his father’s work-life balance as a remote developer, and chose to dive into the tech industry withContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 6, 2017Sportsrocket has hired four New York Code and Design Academy alumni into product management and software engineering roles (plus, all four have received promotions after one year on the job)! We sat down with S...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 2, 2017Tariq Hook got his start in software development through an apprenticeship, so he can relate to his students at Zip Code Wilmington, who are drinking from ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 5, 2017Need an overview of coding bootcamp news in May? You’re in the right place! We’ve collected all the most important news in this blog post and podcast. This month, we read about a number of insightful surveys about employers, programming languages, and learners. We read advice about choosing a bootcamp, learned about efforts to encourage women and veterans to learn to code, and heard a...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on June 1, 2017Ariana Rodriguez has a degree in Applied Math and was working as a statistical programmer. She had always wanted to be in tech and didn’t think it would be possible without a CS degree. She considered going to grad school to study data science before realizing that she could reach her goal by going to...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on May 31, 2017Amanda was a special education teacher for 10 years before deciding to make a change. She was ready to build her love of logic puzzles and problem-solving into a technical skillset, so she decided to join Tech Elevator’s .NET coding bootcamp in Columbus, Ohio! Le...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on October 21, 2020Ironhack is a global web development bootcamp with locations in Madrid, Miami, Barcelona, and now Paris! We spoke with Ironhack’s General Manager for France, François Fillette, to learn more about their new Paris campus, launching June 26th. Fra...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 25, 2017Looking around the Hack Reactor classrooms, Albrey Brown could see a lack of diversity. As the Director of Diversity and Inclusion, his team decided to do something about it, and started by auditing the demographics of past alumni and current students. After analyzing that data,Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 24, 2017Mark Hario’s advice to anyone thinking about going to a coding bootcamp? Just do it. A former welding engineer, Mark dabbled in coding growing up, and after thinking about returning to coding for a few years, he finally took the plunge and enrolled atContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 23, 2017Learning at an online coding bootcamp means you may not meet face-to-face with your instructor, so we’re introducing you to Peter Bell, the Lead Instructor at Flatiron School’s Online Web Developer Program. Peter was already a big fan of Flatiron School when he joined the team in 2016, bringing extensive programming experience, and a background tea...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 21, 2020Phil Wright studied math in college, and took a job in manufacturing after graduation. He started teaching himself Python to help automate manufacturing processes, but needed more guidance; so he enrolled in RMOTR’s online Advanced Python Programming course. Phil explains why he wanted to learn remotely in a collaborative environment ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on May 18, 2017Our takeaway from Annika’s story? Learning to code is hard work. After years in sales and marketing, Annika was looking for a mentally-stimulating career change and wanted to try coding. Her husband (a lead engineer at MongoDB) suggested The Grace Hopper Program, and after a month of independent learning, Annika decided...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on August 9, 2019Are there interview questions you should expect in a technical interview? What do hiring managers want to hear when you’re applying for web developer or software engineering roles after coding bootcamp? Bootcamp instructors, Mark Siemers and Anil Kulkarni, join our panel to discuss what to expect in a technical job interview, examples of common technical interview que...Continue Reading →
