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How to Make the Most Out of Your Next Technical Interview, Even if You Bomb it

Job interviews are what you make of them — even if you’re a new software developer. VP of Business Development and former Head of Job Placements at Flatiron School Rebekah Rombom shares a few tips on how to ace your next technical interview and get hired for the unicorn of an employee you really are._Hi, reader. I’m […]
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Flatiron School and Fog Creek Fellowship: a Fellow’s Perspective

The following post was originally published by Flatiron Alum and Fog Creek Fellow Ashley Blewer on her blog. Learn more about the Fog Creek Fellowship right here or on the program page. Flatiron School was hard. It was one of the toughest, enduring challenges I’ve ever done in my life, and also the most rewarding. […]
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Flatiron School Presents: Seven Ways to Fail-Proof Your First Technical Presentation

All developers will eventually have to present what their working on—whether internally to their teams or in front of a big group at a conference. So we put students in our Web Development and iOS courses through the presentation ringer early on. All of them have to present at a Flatiron Presents Meetup at least […]
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How to Be a Great Developer: Get Really Good at Solving Problems and Learning New Things

There’s a misconception that the whole job of software developers is to write code for a living. It’s why they get confused for “coders”—but being a developer isn’t just about generating line after line of code. It’s about seeing that complex processes really boil down to logic puzzles. Then it’s about finding a solution to […]
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How to Hack a Development Environment and Teach High Schoolers to Code

This post was written by Tristan Siegel, a Ruby Instructor at Flatiron School. In just a few weeks, he developed a way to turn $200 Chromebooks into ready-to-code programming machines. Read Tristan’s original blog post on the experience right here. We designed Flatiron After School to teach high schoolers the same skills professional developers use […]
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New To Tech? Amanda Peyton of Etsy Shares Some Advice

She stopped by Flatiron School to talk through questions she always gets about how to start working in tech. Here’s what we learned: