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App Academy Grad Jerrik Won $500 in Our Sweepstakes!
7/17/2019
Jerrik Shaw, a graduate of App Academy’s software engineering bootcamp wrote a verified review of his bootcamp experience and won our latest sweepstakes competition! Over 1200 tech bootcamp graduates wrote a Verified review for their school on Course Report and went into the draw to win a $500 Amazon Giftcard. We caught up with Jerrik to hear about his coding bootcamp experience, and his new job at 23andMe!
Continue ReadingHow to Land an Internship After Coding Bootcamp
7/11/2019
Internships at tech companies are different than your typical internship – don’t expect to be picking up coffee orders! We spoke to Rachel Bussert, Epicodus’ Director of Student Services who has been coordinating the internship program at Epicodus for over four years. Rachel tells us what she’s learned about finding internship opportunities, the value of an internship before your full-time job search, and how to make the most of an internship once you’ve landed it. Plus, questions to ask in the interview to make sure you’re choosing the right internship.
Continue ReadingFrom Pastor to Software Sales Rep with preHIRED
7/8/2019
When Pastor David Stewart had to move to an expensive part of Seattle to be closer to his kids, he urgently needed a higher paying job. Through his research he found that software sales jobs had high salaries, so he enrolled in the online preHIRED software sales bootcamp to learn the tools of the trade. David tells us how he found the preHIRED learning experience better than his Masters degree program, how he landed his first software sales role at Avvo, an online marketplace for lawyers, and how pleased he was to earn over $100,000 in his first year on the job to support himself and his kids in their new city.
Continue ReadingStacey's Final Project at Hackbright Academy
7/1/2019
Stacey was a veterinarian, but started coding little apps to help her with calculations at work. She found she really enjoyed coding so decided to make a career change! Stacey enrolled at women’s coding bootcamp Hackbright Academy in San Francisco to accelerate her learning and learn how to build useful tools for vets. Read the article or watch the video to learn about VetCalc, the amazing (and functional) app Stacey built for her Hackbright final project to help vets more accurately calculate drug dosages!
Continue ReadingJune 2019 Coding Bootcamp News Roundup
7/1/2019
June 2019: a coding bootcamp fundraise, an interesting acquisition, and great new initiatives to encourage more women and underrepresented groups to get into tech. In this month’s podcast, we talk about the status of the tech skills shortage, what is happening to fill the gaps in areas like data science and cybersecurity, and the ongoing conversation around ISAs (income share agreements). Plus, the CEOs of huge companies like Intuit, Upwork, and IBM share their opinions of bootcamps. And we’ll give you the scoop on new campuses and 7 new schools in the Course Report directory.
Continue ReadingFrom Medicine to iOS Development with Lambda School
6/28/2019
Jerrick excelled in biology and medicine, but he was always thinking about technology. After medical school, he decided to pivot to iOS development and enrolled in Lambda School’s iOS Development Track! He was impressed with the online bootcamp’s experienced teachers and income share agreement plans, and the remote environment meant he could balance his studies with caring for his son. Jerrick tells us about working as a project manager for junior Lambda students, and his plans to combine his passions for healthcare and technology in his new career as an iOS Engineer!
Continue ReadingLearn from a Real Product Manager at BrainStation: Khaled Zaky
6/27/2019
BrainStation Product Management Instructor Khaled Zaky is also a Director of Product Management at the Royal Bank of Canada. He wanted to share his knowledge, so he started teaching aspiring product managers on evenings and weekends, online and in Toronto. Khaled tells us how he uses real examples from his job to help his BrainStation students understand product management concepts, helps students with networking, and wishes he had been able to take a similar course when he started his own PM career!
Continue ReadingInsights on Galvanize’s New Hack Reactor Software Engineering Program
6/27/2019
Since Galvanize acquired Hack Reactor, you may be wondering what’s new about the Software Engineering Immersive. We sat down with Teddi Maull, who actually graduated from Galvanize in 2015 and now works as an instructor, to learn about the changes to curriculum, time commitment, and focus in the new immersive bootcamp. Teddi shares why she was passionate about returning as an instructor to assist other students, the secret to success at Hack Reactor@Galvanize (it’s actually not technical skills!) and her favorite change to the curriculum in the past six months.
Continue ReadingUpskilling Analysts to Data Engineers with The Software Guild
6/26/2019
The Software Guild teaches data engineering courses for business analysts at companies that want to analyze a wider variety of data. Could data engineering be the next skill you need in your skillset? Software Developer Jonathan Frazier and Data Scientist Haythem Balti, both instructors at The Software Guild, explain the difference between data science and data engineering, and what outcomes they see from employees who have taken their data engineering course.
Continue ReadingThinkful's Income Share Agreement + Stipend: What You Need to Know
10/4/2019
Thinkful has been offering job guarantees for their immersive courses since 2016, but now the online school is taking it a step further by launching income share agreements and living stipends which students don’t need to repay until they find a job. We sat down with Thinkful co-founder and CEO Darrell Silver to find out how ISAs and living stipends will make the programs more accessible, what the terms and eligibility requirements are, and how students can choose between an ISA and a traditional loan.
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