I've been a coder for 15+ years, have hired 100+ developers, and have taught 1,000+. Besides @j3 I know more than you about careers in code.
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That crazy hackernews thread with everyone pooing on code schools with singular, generally biased, anecdotal evidence.
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Aha!
@tildeio hired three amazing code school grads and are very happy (two from@FlatironSchool one from@epicodus).1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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Honestly,
@_lbaillie,@HM_Krystan,@vaidehijoshi are some of the top hires of my career.2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes -
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One problem is people aren't equipped or willing to to do mentorship, so they shoot for ppl they think won't need to be mentored.
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a. Everyone would benefit from a good mentorship program. b. This is making a lot of great engineers "unqualified" for no good reason.
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It goes without saying that this affects underrepresented groups more, since by definition to increase representation you need beginners.
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