Alumni Stories

Mary Umoh was on a journey that may be familiar to many students. She graduated college with a biology degree and was following her parent’s career path and not her own. It didn’t work out and she spent the next four years working as an admissions advisor at a technical networking school. She was unhappy […]

With a longtime commitment to providing programming education to those who have served our country, Flatiron School has been honored to teach a number of military veterans how to code over the years. Today, ahead of Veterans Day, we’re profiling a few of these inspiring members of our community. Read on to meet Operation Code […]

He came to Flatiron School to turn his programming hobby into a programming career.

At Flatiron School, we’ve always been dedicated to helping students launch a career, not just land a first job. There’s a healthy skepticism around the coding bootcamp industry – can students trained in three months really keep up with their more experienced colleagues let alone thrive in their new roles? In our new survey of 150+ alumni, we’ve […]

After struggling to find work as an editorial assistant, she began to learn to code – at first to expand her skillset, and then because she found that she loved programming

When we last caught up with Gabe Jackson, an alum of our Online Web Developer Program, he was getting close to finishing the course, supplementing his studies by diving into the music coding tool Sonic Pi. Since then he’s taken an incredible step in his career, joining Flatiron partner Re:Coded in Iraq to help refugees – […]