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How Rory Landed a Lockheed Martin Internship with Holberton School
5/29/2020
After years of trying different career paths as a salesman, bartender, and caterer, Rory Fahy realized that his future was in technology. When Holberton School’s New Haven campus opened up right near his home, Rory took it as a sign to enroll in the Full Stack Web Development career pathway. After completing the Foundations portion of the program, Rory landed an internship at Lockheed Martin. Learn what Rory plans to pursue next in Holberton School’s Specialization program, plus his advice for others looking to launch a tech career.
Continue ReadingMay 2020 Coding Bootcamp News
5/28/2020
Continue ReadingWhy Sheldon Chose Lighthouse Labs Over a CS Degree
5/28/2020
Frustrated with his university computer science courses, Sheldon Malboeuf decided to drop out and enroll at Lighthouse Labs in Montreal. Halfway through the bootcamp, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Sheldon’s in-person program online. Learn how Lighthouse Labs’ personalized instruction and job-relevant programming languages and skills seamlessly transitioned into a remote learning space for Sheldon. Plus, Sheldon outlines how Lighthouse Labs’s career services helped him land a remote developer job at Media Carry!
Continue ReadingJohn Ray’s Journey into Web Development with BrainStation
5/29/2020
When John Ray Martinez immigrated to Canada from the Philippines, he was already years into an IT diploma but found that his credits didn’t transfer. While completing a computer science diploma program in Toronto, John Ray came across BrainStation’s full-time Web Development bootcamp and decided to enroll. His cohort was 10 weeks into their program when COVID-19 transitioned the in-person bootcamp to remote learning. John Ray tells us how shifting to remote learning impacted his tech skills for the better, how he landed a remote internship at Konrad Group, plus what the coding bootcamp taught him that he never learned in his university computer science courses.
Continue ReadingA Day in the Life of a Cybersecurity Engineer after Fullstack Academy
5/21/2020
We sat down with two Fullstack Academy Cyber Bootcamp alums to find out what it's like to work in cybersecurity today. Fabianna Rodriguez-Mercado and Sarah Gold both graduated from the Cyber Bootcamp in 2019. Fabianna now works as an Information Technology Analyst at Accenture, and Sarah works as an Associate Solutions Engineer at Snyk. They share their tips for working as a remote cybersecurity employee, how they prepared for the CompTIA tests, and what their day-to-day looks like in their cybersecurity jobs.
Continue ReadingSam's Journey: From Thinkful to Twitter Software Engineer
5/21/2020
When Sam Gould moved to San Francisco, he did his research as he made a career change and was drawn to the tangible skills of programming. Sam enrolled in Thinkful’s Engineering Immersive and landed a job at Twitter! We caught up with Sam three years later to find out what it was like to learn programming online, how he landed a job as a Software Engineer at Twitter, and why he was able to start contributing from day one on the job.
Continue ReadingMeet Anupama: From Architect to Data Scientist with Metis
5/20/2020
Architect Anupama Garla fell in love with data science and dreamed of combining the two fields. After Anupama discovered that Metis operates a Live Online Data Science Bootcamp, Anu followed a friend’s advice and chose to apply! After three months of data science projects, learning Python and Spark, Anu is now on the job search. Anu describes the online classroom and learning style at Metis, her advice for other career-changers, and her plans to innovate the world of architecture now as a data scientist.
Continue ReadingVirtual Classroom Tour: LearningFuze's Online Bootcamp
5/14/2020
LearningFuze bootcamps are usually taught in southern California, but have moved completely online due to COVID-19. Cody Miller, an instructor of the Full Immersion Program, Cody walks us through the differences between the online and in-person immersive, gives us a virtual tour of the LearningFuze online classroom, and shares advice for students who want to do well in an online bootcamp.
Continue ReadingHow Jenn Became a Software Engineer with Rithm School
5/13/2020
Jenn Ma was looking for a career that would be relevant, with room to grow – she decided to make the change from real estate underwriting to web development with Rithm School. One year later, Jenn says she wouldn’t trade her career change for anything. Learn more about Jenn’s career transformation through Rithm School, the benefits of doing an internship, and how her networking skills helped her land a job as a Software Engineer at Curology.
Continue ReadingInstructor Spotlight: Dr. Frances Boykin of Lighthouse
5/13/2020
Dr. Frances Boykin knew from a young age that her future was in data science. With unfaltering determination, she’s been working in the data science field for over 20 years. Now, it’s her personal mission to help others do the same at the data science and coding bootcamp Lighthouse. Learn how Dr. Boykin’s teaching reaches all her students within the Lighthouse Data Science & Analytics bootcamp regardless of their prior experience, plus her thoughts on the one field that bootcamp graduates should consider applying to now.
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