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January 2019 Coding Bootcamp Podcast
1/31/2019
In January 2019, the top news in the tech bootcamp industry was all about Income Sharing Agreements and university coding bootcamps – it was a flurry of fascinating news! We start with a potential policy change being discussed in congress, talk through a $30 million fundraise, and summarize articles about ISAs from the New York Times, Fortune, Vice, and TechCrunch. Plus, we will tell you about some student success stories, and the 11 new bootcamps we added to the Course Report directory in January!
Continue Reading →2018 End of Year Coding Bootcamp Podcast
12/27/2018
As we near the end of 2018, we're rewinding and reflecting on the most interesting and impactful coding bootcamp news of the year. Come with us as we look at trends, digest thought pieces, break down the ~$175 million in new funding, and more. We’ll also look at our predictions for 2019 and our hopes for the future of coding bootcamps!
Continue Reading →Holberton School's Income Share Agreement: What You Need to Know
10/4/2019
With the aim of making education as accessible as possible, Holberton School has offered income share agreements for students since it launched in 2016. We wanted to find out exactly how the ISA works, and whether it is a good deal for students, so we asked Holberton School’s Director of Marketing Amandine Aman to explain all the details. She tells us what the eligibility requirements are for the ISA, at what point graduates need to start paying, and the maximum amount anyone will have to pay. She also tells us what sort of salaries Holberton graduates can expect!
Continue Reading →How Greg Became a Software Engineer at Atlassian after Holberton School
11/14/2018
Greg was a Collegiate Athletics Director of Operations for the Track & Field program for 6 years before realizing he wanted a new intellectual challenge. He was interested in software development, but felt he needed to learn for longer than 12 weeks. So Greg moved from North Carolina to San Francisco to attend Holberton School’s 2-year software engineering program! Read about Greg’s learning experience and see how he landed a Junior Full Stack Software Engineer role at Atlassian after Year One of Holberton School!
Continue Reading →October 2018 Coding Bootcamp Podcast
10/31/2018
Just as coding languages are always changing, things also change very quickly in the coding bootcamp industry! In October we read about two big acquisitions, some fundraises, and partnerships and rivalries between universities and bootcamps. We heard about the interesting backgrounds of some female bootcamp founders, and what demand there is for software developers in the tech industry! There were also articles about companies teaming up with bootcamps and two coding bootcamps going through hardships. Read the summary or listen to the podcast!
Continue Reading →Holberton School New Haven Campus
10/2/2018
Holberton School – a two-year, peer-driven school – is launching a new campus in New Haven, Connecticut in January 2019! We got the details from the Director of the New Haven campus, Nadine Krause, and Holberton’s Co-Founder, Sylvain Kalache. See how this campus compares to Holberton School’s first location in San Francisco, and what the team has in store for new students looking for jobs in Connecticut and along the East Coast (and Connecticut businesses starving for tech talent).
Continue Reading →How David Landed a Job at Facebook After Holberton School
8/29/2018
After working in the video gaming industry for years and earning a computer science degree, David tried to pivot into general software engineering, but found his programming knowledge lacked breadth. He enrolled at Holberton School in San Francisco, and realized the missing link for him was soft skills. David tells us how learning to collaborate with others, communicate his ideas, and explain his thought processes at Holberton helped him land an internship at Facebook!
Continue Reading →How Holberton School Helped Me Switch Careers at 50
7/11/2018
After almost 30 years working in restaurants and agriculture, Larry Madeo wanted a career that used his brain rather than his back. He built up his Excel skills and soon shifted his goals towards software engineering. Larry moved from rural Wisconsin to San Francisco to attend Holberton School and hasn’t looked back. Larry tells us about the Holberton application process, being the oldest student in a very diverse class, and how Holberton prepared him for his new job as a DevOps Engineer! Larry also has great advice for other later-stage career changers – read on!
Continue Reading →Alumni Spotlight: Bobby Yang of Holberton School
6/18/2018
Bobby Yang was no newbie to tech when he arrived at Holberton School – he had freelanced as a WordPress developer in high school, dropped out of a CS degree to work as a front end developer, and launched his own startup. But Bobby soon realized that he needed to deepen his grasp on computer science fundamentals, and joined Holberton School’s two-year coding program in San Francisco. Bobby tells us why the learning style at Holberton School suited him better than college, what motivated him through the 13-hour days, and how he turned his internship at Wonder Workshop into a full-time software engineering job!
Continue Reading →April 2018 Coding Bootcamp News Podcast
5/2/2018
In our April 2018 technology bootcamp news roundup we saw four overarching trends – bootcamp acquisitions, employers putting their own employees through bootcamp, a continued debate between college vs bootcamp, and efforts to expand accessibility to coding education for underrepresented groups in tech. We also look at apprenticeships, the evolution of bootcamp curricula, life after bootcamp, and new bootcamps! Read the roundup below or listen to the podcast!
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