Hi! I'm Eva (ee-vah) and I am a bootcamp grad.
I "luckily" secured an offer right before I graduated from Flatiron School in 2021. To me, "luck" is a combination of hard work and opportunity. You can read how I landed my first tech offer on Medium.
I don't think most coding bootcamps do a good job of conveying the message that the tech industry is VERY competitive. I see many bootcamp graduates have trouble securing a position after graduating. From my experience, interviewing for a tech position is quite different from the other roles I've interviewed for (server, sales associate, bank teller, mortgage loan processor, legal analyst, editor, etc.).
Software engineering positions often have a few rounds of interviews and the rounds increase as you advance in your career.
The rounds usually consist of:
- Phone screening with a recruiter
- Be prepared:
- To walk through your resume
- To answer why you are applying to the company
- Be prepared:
- Coding assessment
- Could be a take-home assignment, online assessment, or pair programming with an engineer on the team
- Meeting the hiring manager (a mix of technical and behavioral questions)
- Depending on the company, you might meet more of the team
- System design with a senior engineer or hiring manager (usually for more senior positions)
Software engineering interviews are tough and a stamina test. But you know what? The tech community has each other's backs, and the web is overflowing with resources to help us nail that next gig! I'll admit, I was (and still am, honestly) in need of some serious guidance when I first dove in. So, I'm paying it forward by putting together this list of resources.
- Rezi - Build Your Resume with AI
- Canva
- I believe that LinkedIn is a powerful platform that helps with networking and finding your next opportunity. To help your posts/profile stand out, I recommend using graphics. Canva makes it super easy to bootstrap your LinkedIn banner/posts.
- Wellfound, formerly AngelList Talent
- Hiring Without Whiteboards repo
- Tech Ladies - Join the largest community of women in tech
- LinkedIn Jobs
- Levels.fyi's Job Board
- Otta
- Still Hiring Today
- The Mom Project
- Boston Big Tech Job Board
- BuiltIn Jobs
- Web3.career - jobs in Web3
- Simplify
- Wayup
- USA Jobs
- Key Values
- Ladders
- Hacker News
- Crunchboard
- Authentic Jobs
- Personal Study Guide
- Tech Interview Handbook
- Frontend Interview Handbook
- Refer Me's Interview Guide
- Big O Cheat Sheet
- Hack Reactor's Tech Interview Cheat Sheet
- Neetcode
- System Design Primer Study Guide repo
- Codementor Virtual Events
- BuiltIn Companies
- Levels.fyi's Blog
- Crunchbase - learn about a startup's funding
- Glassdoor - not my first choice because there is outdated data
- Refer Me
- Referrals help you stand out as a candidate
- Taro
- Alex and Rahul are building a supportive community for software engineers to grow in their careers
- Tech Ladies - community to support women in all areas of tech
- Operation Code - community of military veterans, service members, and spouses committed to becoming software developers
- There are location-specific channels dedicated to meetups such as:
- #austin-tx
- There are channels dedicated to job hunting such as:
- #remote-jobs
- #job-board
- #career-advice
- There are location-specific channels dedicated to meetups such as:
- Fairy God Boss
- ADP List
- Women in Cybersecurity
- freecodecamp
- Grow With Google
- Harvard CS50
- Codecademy
- MDN Tutorials
- Women Who Code
- Khan Academy's computing courses
- CSS Tricks
- Code Gym - Learn Java in a Fun Way
- Learn Git Branching
- New York State Department of Labor partnered with Coursera to provide free training
- Learn.uno - Learn anything in one month alongside your day job
- Microsoft - 30 Days to Learn It
- Roadmap.sh
- AWS Skill Builder
- Microsoft Learning
- Oracle University
- The Odin Project
- Scrum Alliance
- Most teams follow the Agile methodology, so it's helpful to know some of the keypoints of Agile
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent