kbredemeier

Holberton school is in Downtown San Francisco. We are a project-based alternative to college for the next generation of software engineers. If - like us - you think that Education is broken, come help us fix it and make it available to the most. We are currently looking to fill a full-time onsite back-end software engineering position.

- [~90% of your time] Development of the institute's tools, including the students intranet, the main website, the admission process, the auto-review system, etc. This includes maintaining existing tools (don’t worry, our code is CLEAN, documented, tested and well-maintained :)) as well as designing and building out new features and services, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, participating in code reviews

- [~10% of your time] Answer technical questions from students. Note: If you think there is not enough tech for you to have fun at Holberton, please come talk to us :) Holberton has been founded by a software engineer and a devops (Ex-Docker & Ex-LinkedIn). We automate everything, and we are building new tools and products every day, using the latest tools and languages of the industry. A lot of our challenges have never been faced before as we are building something completely new.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/253334934

Depending on the bootcamp, or school that you attend, it might come with some industry recognition. For example, if a company has had success with hires from hack reactor[1], 42[2], or Holberton[3], then they are generally more likely to hire grads from that bootcamp. If you are simply self educated, then you don't have the references for companies to go by.

[1] http://www.hackreactor.com [2] https://www.42.us.org [3] https://www.holbertonschool.com

The most successful bootcamp graduates that I know had previous experience, and attended the bootcamp as either a final step towards a career, or as a way to brush up on a new technology. Bootcamps are not designed to give you all the computer science training that is required to be successful in a tech career, it's just simply too short of a time to search such a wide breath of information. If you utilize bootcamps properly, they will yield great results.

Holberton School[1] does not charge anything up front either, but takes a percentage of salary once placed in a job. If we want to make software engineering and computer science accessible to everyone, I think adopting this type of model is a great idea. We need more diverse minds in the tech industry and this is one way to do it.

[1] https://www.holbertonschool.com

If I have learned anything from going back to school, it's that you have to make opportunities for yourself. Wether you went to a bootcamp or four your university, or something in the middle (I'm at Holberton[1] at the moment), it's all about doing the work and getting your shit out there. Great article.

[1] https://www.holbertonschool.com

Innovation is what makes this industry so exciting to be a part of. I joined the tech world, via Holberton School[1] just a mere nine months ago, and already so much has changed. It makes it challenging to keep up, but that's the fun part.

The future of technology is held in the hands of open source projects.

[1] https://www.holbertonschool.com

I'm currently a student at Holberton[1], and we did a project where we had to be on call ensuring optimal uptime for a server. It was really sweet to emulate a real work experience, but super stressful. I can't image if I had to be on call more than a night or two a month. [1] https://www.holbertonschool.com

This sounds like a really cool idea. I'm still a full-time student at Holberton[1], but the fact that things like this exist make me excited about joining the industry.

[1] https://www.holbertonschool.com

I agree with you. I went to college and graduated with a degree, but didn't really have enough real world experience to know what I wanted to do as a career. Skip ahead five years and I finally found a similar equivalent to a software engineering trade school, Holberton School[1] in SF. I didn't have the money to go back to school and didn't want to take out loans, and this school was my saving grace. I do wish things like this existed for other vocations as well though.

[1] https://www.holbertonschool.com