Careers in coding

Codecademy for Business and our friends Code Climate are meeting with engineering leaders to talk about their career journeys, leadership tactics, and their advice for the next generation of engineers in our new series, 1 on 1 with Engineering Leaders.  Below is an excerpt from a 1 on 1 chat with Tara Ellis, Manager, UI…

This is the third in a series of articles on careers in coding from our friends at Career Karma. Check out their previous posts on tips for creating a technical resume and JavaScript technical interview prep.With so many different fields in the technology industry, it can be hard to choose which one to specialize in.…

This article was written by our friends at Career Karma.You have about ten seconds to make a good first impression with the hiring manager or recruiter when submitting your resume for a potential web development or software engineering position. At a glance, what do you want them to know? How will you stand out? In…

Choosing a career path while in college can feel like a huge undertaking. You may still be trying to decide what exactly you want to study, trying to navigate finding an internship, or figuring out what type of job you want to get when you graduate.Because hindsight is 20/20, we interviewed five members of the…

You may have heard the phrases “front end” and “back end” being tossed around in reference to programming before. If you are new to programming, you might be wondering what these terms actually mean.At a high level, the "front end" is what visitors or users will see when they interact with a program, application, or…

This is the first in a series of articles from our friends at Career Karma.Technical interviews may be stressful but they tell an employer a lot about you. Technical interviews let an employer see that you can thrive under pressure. They allow an employer to see that you actually possess the skills you have listed…

Codecademy community member Regina Gerbeaux recently went from being a classical piano teacher with no coding experience to landing a job as a software engineer in six months. We sat down to talk with Regina over Zoom about her inspiring journey.If you’re considering a career change, we know it can be daunting. So, as part…

Catherine Zhou manages the data science team at Codecademy. She’s been working at Codecademy for 3 years and as a data scientist for ten. Because the job title of “Data Scientist” is relatively new, Catherine’s title has ranged over the years from quant to researcher to business intelligence analyst to engineer — but through it…