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  Meet Victoria: From Beginner to Engineer in 19 Weeks with Hack Reactor

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on February 9, 2023

  Victoria Ziegler was on track to become a medical doctor, but realized she needed a more flexible career. Inspired by a friend’s recent career change into tech, coding beginner Victoria enrolled in Hack Reactor’s 19-week, online coding bootcamp to become a Software En...

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  The 16 Best Tech Job Cities in 2025

  

  Nat Davis

  Updated on April 9, 2025

  What are the best tech job cities of 2025? While remote tech jobs are on the rise, wages are often still tied to a geographic location and cost of living. And even though salaries are still highest in major tech cities, you can now look beyond San Francisco and New York City to find a strong job network (though we still love SF and NYC)! Here are the 16 best tech job cities, ranked by population...

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  January 2023 Coding Bootcamp News Roundup

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on February 1, 2023

  Course Report · January 2023 Coding Bootcamp News Roundup Happy New Year! Here at Course Report, we kicked off 2023 with the release of our Best Coding Bootcamps list and announced our m...

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  6 Tech Careers for Gamers

  

  Nat Davis

  Updated on December 9, 2025

  When you play a video game, you’re interacting with thousands of hours of work from game designers, engineers, QA testers, and more. Whether you’re interested in the development, design or marketing side of video games, there’s a tech career perfect for your unique skill set. Learn about 6 tech jobs that are perfect for gamers (and many of these don’t require a college degree!), industries and c...

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  Career Services at College vs Coding Bootcamp

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on January 26, 2023

  Career services are an essential part of the coding bootcamp experience – but how do they compare to the career support you may have experienced at a traditional university? While both Career Services teams at colleges and coding bootcamps aim to get students employed, there are key differences in how they support students. We’re diving into the career centers that you can opt into at a college...

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  Guide to Coding with a Learning Disability

  

  Nat Davis

  Updated on June 14, 2023

  Having a learning disability doesn’t preclude you from learning how to code or launching your tech career. And considering that 1 in 5 people have learning or attention issues, it’s prudent for bootcamps to support all types of learners. Plus, the more neurodiv...

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  From Roofing to Learning to Code: Travis’s Coder Foundry Story

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on January 12, 2023

  Travis, a graduate of Coder Foundry’s coding bootcamp wrote a Verified review of his bootcamp experience and won our latest sweepstakes competition! Over 1,500 tech bootcamp graduates wrote a Verified review for their school on Course Repor...

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  What Employers Are Looking for in Technical Hires in 2023

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on January 5, 2023

  Tech is ever-evolving, so what can you expect employers to be hiring for in 2023? We asked two Tech Elevator hiring partners, Kroger and FAST Enterprises, to share which technical skills and soft skills their companies will be hiring for this year. (Spoiler alert: sharpen your Enterprise API Development,...

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  Ask a Career Coach: How will data jobs fare in the volatile tech job market of early 2024?

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on December 26, 2023

  Welcome to Ask a Career Coach, an advice-column where real bootcamp career coaches answer a question from a Course Report reader. Today, Beanie Brady from Flatiron School is answering a question about what you can expect in the current data science/data analytics jo...

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  December 2022 Coding Bootcamp News Roundup

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on December 4, 2024

  Course Report · 2022: The Year in Review for Coding Bootcamp News As we wrap up 2022, we’re reporting on the biggest coding bootcamp news about fundraises and new campuses that we saw in December. A new study released this month detailed how to...

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