Career advice

Election Day is Tuesday, November 5 in the United States. Whether you’ve been volunteering leading up to the big day or are planning to proudly wear your “I Voted” sticker, getting involved with an election cycle is invigorating. Some people turn their passion for politics into a career. In fact, there are lots of ways…

It’s no exaggeration to say that every job is a “tech” job nowadays. Even traditionally non-technical industries, like financial services, higher education, or government, are integrating technology and algorithms into their work.  Whether you manage marketers, analysts, salespeople, product managers, or other non-technical specialists, technical skills can help prepare your team for the future. With…

Here at Codecademy, we believe that technical skills and digital literacy are important for all people in all industries. Marketers, sales teams, finance teams, and more can all benefit from learning technical skills. That’s why we’re excited to tell you about Codecademy for Teams, a plan that allows organizations to provide technical training and education for…

If writing hundreds of lines of complicated code sounds more appealing than writing a short paragraph about yourself, join the club. Writing a succinct bio that encapsulates who you are and what you’ve accomplished is tricky. But with a few strategies, even the most writing-averse programmers can pull it off. Working in tech, there are…

Early in software development, Development and Operations worked separately and sequentially: Developers wrote and tested code, then handed it over to Operations (typically an Infrastructure Engineer or Systems Administrator) for production deployment. This approach had drawbacks: code often failed in production, and new features were delivered in large, infrequent releases, lacking early testing and user…

“When can we ship this?” If this question gets your heart racing, don’t panic. There are a number of reasons why your team leader or Product Manager might ask for a time estimate — and they’re probably not trying to rush you.   Timelines and due dates are critical to all parts of a business. Sales…

Knowing how to use AI for software development could be the most valuable asset that you bring to a workplace. A new survey from GitHub found that over 97% of developers use AI coding tools at work and in their personal lives.   The survey defined AI coding tools as “any developer tools that use generative…

If you’re in the market for a job in tech, there’s a good chance you’ve come across cybersecurity roles during your search. In the United States, there are several hundreds of thousands of open cybersecurity positions that need to be filled. There are a couple factors contributing to the current demand for cybersecurity professionals: The…

In computing, a context switch allows multiple processes to share a single CPU by alternating between them and avoiding conflict, but it comes with an overhead cost. Similarly, when humans shift focus from one task to another, there’s also a cognitive cost. For example, switching from writing a script to responding to Slack messages or…

When you set a big goal, how often do you celebrate your progress? Sometimes, we get so caught up in advancing to the next step that we forget to appreciate how far we’ve come. But it’s important to remember that, with each line of code, you’re that much closer to your end goal — whether…