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  Alumni Spotlight: Amanda Ronis of Tech Elevator

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on May 31, 2017

  Amanda 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! Learn...

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  Campus Spotlight: Ironhack Paris

  

  Lauren Stewart

  Updated on October 21, 2020

  Ironhack 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. France...

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  Diversity & Inclusion at Hack Reactor

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on May 25, 2017

  Looking 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,...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Mark Hario of Fullstack Academy Remote

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on May 24, 2017

  Mark 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 at...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Peter Bell of Flatiron School's Online Web Developer Program

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on May 23, 2017

  Learning 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 teaching at Columbia Business School and Git...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Phil Wright of RMOTR

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on October 21, 2020

  Phil 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 whe...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Annika Sundberg of The Grace Hopper Program

  

  Imogen Crispe

  Updated on May 18, 2017

  Our 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, Annik...

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  How to Pass a Technical Interview After Coding Bootcamp

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on August 9, 2019

  Are 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 questi...

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  Why EverQuote Hires from Launch Academy

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on May 17, 2017

  As a self-taught developer himself, Kyle Feeley appreciates coding bootcamp grads who have made an intentional career change. So as the Director of UX for online insurance marketplace EverQuote, he turned to...

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  The New Flexible Tech Bootcamps at DigitalCrafts

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on September 19, 2023

  Software development and cybersecurity are popular career paths in 2023, but learning full stack engineering and cybersecurity often requires a full-time commitment. For those that balance busy lives, DigitalCrafts has partnered with...

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