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How a 21-day Coding Challenge Inspired Selin to go to Lighthouse Labs
10/23/2019
Three years into her degree, Selin realized that she no longer wanted to study neuroscience. She had always been interested in coding so she signed up for the Lighthouse Labs 21-Day Coding Challenge to test out the waters. The coding challenge helped Selin solidify her desire to switch direction, and she enrolled in the Lighthouse Labs Web Development Bootcamp in Toronto! Find out how the 21 Day Coding Challenge set her up for success in the coding bootcamp interview, in the program itself, and in her internship when she graduated!
Continue ReadingWhy This Accenture Recruiter Hires Hackbright Alumnae
10/22/2019
Katherine Louie is a Technical Recruiting Manager for Accenture with a focus on Diversity & Inclusion, so she knows how important it is to hire diverse technical teams. Accenture partners with Hackbright Academy, an all-women coding bootcamp in San Francisco, and has hired five graduates into their Technology and Consulting Development Programs! Katherine was impressed with the students’ drive and willingness to learn. She tells us why Hackbright students (and bootcamp grads in general) stand out, the hands-on projects they get to work on right away, and why diversity in tech is more than a buzzword.
Continue ReadingHow Top Companies Influence the Springboard UI/UX Design Course
10/21/2019
After running the UX Design Career Track for over a year, Springboard is launching a longer, more in-depth UI/UX Design Career Track with the option to pay after getting a job. Instructional Designer Rebecca Lasky tells us why the team is launching a second design-focused online bootcamp, how designers and hiring managers from companies like Zappos and Upwork are contributing to the curriculum, and what sort of jobs Springboard graduates can land! Plus read Rebecca’s top tip for starting your design learning now.
Continue ReadingHow a Veteran Landed a Software Sales Job in 7 weeks with Prehired
10/23/2019
Military veteran Albert Villaviza was tired of working in commission-based sales and wanted more financial security to support his wife and four young children. Albert came across Prehired’s software sales bootcamp on Facebook, and found the job guarantee “irresistible.” He tells us about working through the online program, getting help and support from Prehired mentors and other students, and how he landed a job a week after graduating as a Sales Development Representative at multinational telecommunications company GTT!
Continue ReadingHow to Land a Job After Coding Bootcamp with DevMountain
10/23/2019
DevMountain Director of Outcomes and Student Success, Chris Dominguez, gives us a peek at how his team helps graduates land jobs with companies like American Express and Wayfair after coding bootcamp. Chris explains how he helps DevMountain students reframe their (often seemingly irrelevant) backgrounds to enhance their resumes, and shares his tips for applying to jobs in iOS, UX Design, Web Development, and Software QA.
Continue ReadingFrom Banker to Software Developer with The Software Guild
10/23/2019
Ben Lindau was a banker with an economics degree who knew he wanted to be coding for a living. Instead of moving further into his banking career, he switched jobs to work for a non-profit and enrolled in The Software Guild’s Online Java Program. Ben tells us about balancing his full-time job with the online coding bootcamp, The Software Guild’s “excellent system” for providing support from instructors, and how he landed his job as a Developer at the headquarters of a big box tech retailer in Minneapolis!
Continue ReadingBecoming a Remote Developer for Hilton after Codesmith
10/7/2019
Eric Carrillo was a surfer and entrepreneur dreaming of a digital nomad lifestyle. A serendipitous encounter with the CEO of Codesmith led him to enroll in their Software Engineering Immersive in Los Angeles. As someone with no tech background, Eric tells us about failing the first admissions interview (and getting in the second time), surviving the “firehose” of information in the first weeks of coding bootcamp, and learning how to ace technical job interviews. Now Eric is working remotely from Peru as a Developer for Hilton!
Continue ReadingUpskilling Online in UX Design & Data Science with BrainStation
10/23/2019
When Georgie Gow had a taste of data-driven UX design, she decided to upskill in her marketing career, and get into more digital roles. She enrolled in BrainStation’s part-time Data Analytics course, and found it immensely helpful, then decided to take another BrainStation course, this time in UX Design! Georgina tells us how she balanced her full-time job in Australia with learning online, and how her new skills are allowing her to take on new responsibilities and improve her performance in her job!
Continue ReadingFrom Insurance Claims to Data Analysis with Thinkful
10/23/2019
Feeling drawn to the “numbers behind-the-scenes,” finance grad Keaton Hutchison recognized that if he wanted to feel satisfied in his job, he needed to be working with data. A friend recommended Thinkful’s online tech courses, and Keaton chose the Data Analytics Flex self-paced program (which is now available full time with the Data Analytics Immersion program). Keaton tells us why he wanted to learn data analytics over data science, how he powered through the online bootcamp in half the usual time, and his new job as a Data Analyst at LAZ Parking!
Continue ReadingShould You Learn Object-Oriented Programming at Coding Bootcamp?
10/2/2019
In your research as a beginner coder, you will probably come across the term “object-oriented programming” to describe certain coding languages and approaches to coding. But what is object-oriented programming, and should beginners learn an object-oriented coding language? Will knowledge of object-oriented programming help you reach your goals of landing a job as a software engineer? We asked Graham Troyer-Joy, a Lead Instructor at coding bootcamp Flatiron School, to explain!
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