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#62 - Job Market Update, Philosophy of Work & Money and More
Send us a textIn their monthly catch up, Aaron and Peter discuss:Layoffs and our updated thoughts around bootcamp grads, the tech economy and job search.How we each think uniquely about money, work and our careers (or...
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#61 - Four Portfolio Projects to Get Hired
Send us a textBuilding your own projects is the best way to learn new technologies, and it also happens to be a great way to prove to employers that you have engineering skills. In this episode, Peter talks about...
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#60 - Treat Learning to Code Like a Video Game
Send us a textWe mention often that the best coding bootcamp students embrace the process of learning to code over the results of their code. Now, we have a mental model and data to back up our advice. In this...
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#59 - How To Achieve Your 10 Year Goals in 1 Year
Send us a textMy people don’t keep their New Years resolutions. Instead, let’s set massive goals for 2023 that we actually achieve, and let’s achieve them together.Scott Frazier is here to talk with us about “90 Days...
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#58 - How to Negotiate a Software Engineer Salary
Send us a textWe talk a lot about how to become a software engineer in terms of your skills. Today, we focus on navigating the process of actually securing a job. In this episode, Peter talks about how to handle job...
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#57 - Stop Learning and Start Taking Action
Send us a textIn their monthly catch up, Aaron and Peter discuss:The demise of Aaron’s business, devMintThe current state of the economy and bootcamp gradsPlanning goals for 2023 and how to take action instead of...
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#56 - Recent Layoffs and Job Searching for Bootcamp Grads
Send us a text What do all the recent tech layoffs mean for Coding Bootcamp Grads? In this episode, Aaron will dive in and give an analysis of how you should think about this recession and what you should do as a...
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#55 - Cohost Peter's Origin Story
Send us a textIf you listen to this podcast frequently, you may wonder who we are and how we became software engineers. In this episode one of your cohosts, Peter, talks about how he went from bootcamp grad to senior...
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#54 - Experience is Everything with Elben Shira of Airtable
Send us a text Elben Shira is a seasoned Staff-level Software Engineer currently working at Airtable. In this episode he shares his experiences working with juniors as well as his perspectives around learning,...
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#53 - Are Coding Bootcamps Worth It?
Send us a textIn this episode, we examine the question of whether or not coding bootcamps are "worth it."In order to answer this question, we'll first have to examine what people mean by the word "worth", which is...
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#52 - Hitting 10k Monthly Downloads, Work/Life Balance and More
Send us a textHosts Aaron & Peter gather for their monthly catch-up episode where they talk about:Hitting 10k monthly podcast downloadsDesigning our work around our lifeHow hobbies and continuous learning make for...
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#51 - How to Become a Designer with Paul Kim of Dropbox
Send us a textWe’re always talking about how to become a Software Engineer, but what about other tech jobs, like product design? It is easier to become a designer?To answer our questions, we talked with Paul Kim, who...
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