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  Why Razorfish Hires Developers from General Assembly

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on August 11, 2016

  Razorfish is a digital marketing agency with a 120-person technical team, which means they’re always scoping out technical talent. We spoke to Razorfish Talent Acquisitions Manager Nick Easlick about hiring General Assembly grads as Front End developers across the US. Having hired 7...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Adam Levinson of Tradecraft

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on August 11, 2016

  Adam attended Tradecraft’s 12-week growth marketing bootcamp in San Francisco, with a mission to shake up his skills in tech. Although he had a ton of tech experience with A/B testing and experimentation, he realized he couldn’t land the marketing career that he wanted. Read more about his thoughts on learning in a bootcamp classroom,...

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  SSOM Spotlight: Shawn Drost of Hack Reactor

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on April 7, 2021

  While a number of coding bootcamps have published their own student outcomes, Reactor Core recently released SSOM, a methodology for calculating job placement outcomes that they’re encouraging other bootcamps to adopt. As the coding bootcamp industry grows, transparency in marketing practices becomes integral to the success of the industry, so we spoke to Reactor Core CCO Shawn Drost about thei...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Nat Panchee of General Assembly

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on August 9, 2016

  Nat had been a web programmer for 11 years when he decided to update his skills and attend General Assembly’s Android Development Immersive program in NYC. Although he had a background in Java, Nat says that almost everything he learned in the program was new, and has helped him start a freelance career as an Android mobile deve...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Tom Crawford of The Iron Yard Detroit

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on August 8, 2016

  [As of October 13, 2017, The Iron Yard will no longer be operating.] Tom was a developer for nearly 30 years before he discovered coding bootcamps and became an iOS instructor at The Iron Yard. He began teaching at the DC campus and recently moved back to his hometown of Detroit to launch the mobile engineering program at The...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Julia Wells of Sabio

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on August 5, 2016

  Julia Wells took a leap of faith 3 years ago to enroll at Sabio, a new Coding Bootcamp in LA. Since then, Sabio has expanded to new campuses and refined their curriculum. Julia is on her third dev job since graduating, making over $100K/year. Find out more about Julia’s impressive career and her advice about s...

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  Meet the Winners of our Flatiron School Full Scholarship!

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on June 24, 2019

  In July 2016, we announced one FULL scholarship to Flatiron School in New York City. Because there were so many amazing applicants, Flatiron School decided to award scholarships to TWO stellar applicants, and we are excited to announce those winners today. Jessica, a musician/video producer, and Dallin, a marketing strategist,...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Emma of The Software Guild

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on August 4, 2016

  Emma’s love for linguistics and solving puzzles led her to The Software Guild in Minneapolis. Her background in analyzing language processing tasks using a program written in Python got her curious about learning code. A former member of the Conservation Corps and former English teacher in South Korea, see how this programmer util...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Jamie Sowder of MakerSquare

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on August 2, 2016

  Jamie was a software engineer working at companies like eBay and PayPal for 10 years before he followed his passion for teaching and joined MakerSquare Austin in August 2015. He is now Head of Instruction and leads the senior phase of the bootcamp, as well as iterating on the curriculum. Jamie tells us why he fully believes in the bo...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Brian from Evolve Security Academy

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on October 21, 2020

  With security breaches and hacks in the news and on TV (Mr. Robot, anyone?) cyber security is more important than ever. Bootcamps like Evolve Security Academy are now helping to train the next generation of Cyber Security Professionals. We caught up with Brian, the Lead Instructor at...

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