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  • Alumni Spotlight: Gladia Castro of General Assembly
    Imogen Crispe
    Imogen Crispe
    Updated on December 12, 2017
    Gladia Castro enjoyed working as a program director with the YMCA in San Francisco, but after 10 years, she couldn’t see herself working at nonprofits for her whole life. When she saw General Assembly’s User Experience Design Immersive, she immediately knew that UX Design was her destiny. Gladia tells us about working on a rea...
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  • Alumni Spotlight: Mike Smith of SPICED Academy
    Imogen Crispe
    Imogen Crispe
    Updated on December 7, 2017
    Most coding bootcamp graduates boast new salaries that blow their past careers out of the water. But for some, it’s less about money and more about quality of life. For Mike Smith, who spent years unfulfilled as a London banker, a career change meant finding a job he wanted to spend his time doing, and programming was the answer. He moved to Berlin for its lifestyle, learned to code at...
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  • Campus Spotlight: Ironhack Mexico City
    Lauren Stewart
    Lauren Stewart
    Updated on October 21, 2020
    Global Tech School Ironhack is launching a new campus in Mexico City on January 15, 2018. We spoke with Ironhack’s VP of Operations & Expansion, Alexandre Berriche, to learn about the Mexico City tech ecosystem and why there is a growing demand f...
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  • November 2017 Coding Bootcamp News + Podcast
    Imogen Crispe
    Imogen Crispe
    Updated on December 1, 2017
    On the Course Report Coding Bootcamp News Roundup, we keep you up to date with the blossoming coding bootcamp industry. This November, we're covering the WeWork/Flatiron School acquisition, over $2M in funding to various bootcamps, and why tech is booming in "Heartland" cities. Of course we also look at new schools, new campuses, and our favorite pieces to work on this month for the Course Rep...
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  • Why Insiten Hires from (and trains at) DigitalCrafts
    Liz Eggleston
    Liz Eggleston
    Updated on November 27, 2017
    Insiten is a small financial tech shop in Atlanta, but they’ve integrated innovative hiring, training and upskilling practices that a lot of large companies have yet to adopt. So far, CEO Adam Trien has hired 8 software engineers from Atlanta-based DigitalCrafts and is even funding one of his current employees to upskill at the <...
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  • Alumni Spotlight: Jamie Fradkin of Metis
    Lauren Stewart
    Lauren Stewart
    Updated on November 21, 2017
    Jamie Fradkin has worked at BuzzFeed as a data scientist for over a year and a half after attending Metis data science bootcamp in New York City. As a former biomedical engineer, she wanted to switch careers so that she could make use of her math and statistics skills in a booming new industry. Learn about the Metis application and learn...
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