Alex Booker

Alex Booker

Host of The Scrimba Podcast

Appears in 170 Episodes

Drumroll, Please: Make Your Portfolio Projects Fun and Prepare for the Following Questions

Meet Stevie Gill ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง! Stevie was a scientist, a medical writer and an editor, and then he wrote about video games. Eventually, he moved countries and changed careers. N...

Understanding Corporate Hierarchy (and Perfecting Your Resume), With Tiffany Jachja

Meet Tiffany Jachja ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ! Tiffany is a data scientist, career coach, engineering manager, and Twitch streamer! By day, she works at Vox Media. In her free time, she help...

Donโ€™t Compare Yourself to Other New Developers: Scrimba Student Silvia on Changing Careers

Meet Silvia Piovesan ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น! Silvia is a Scrimba student who recently got four job offers after four different interviews. But her success didn't come overnight! Silvia us...

How To Learn To Code From the Free Content on YouTube, With Jessica Chan

Meet Jess Chan ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ! Jess's YouTube channel, Coder Coder, has almost 400,000 subscribers at the time of recording. She's a web developer turned educator, and when she's ...

Talent Alone Is Not Enough: How Theo Changed Careers at 49 and Landed a Paid Web Dev Apprenticeship

Meet Theo Ntogiakos ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง! Theo has just switched careers at the age of 49! Recently, he landed a paid apprenticeship and is currently attending a coding bootcamp. But be...

What Are Company Valuesโ€ฆ and Why You Should Know Your Own, with Dave Mayer

Meet Dave Mayer ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ! Dave is a founder and CEO of Technical Integrity, a boutique recruiting firm famous for its culture-first approach. TI has worked with big companie...

Take a Chance, Even If Things Sound Weird and You Don't Feel Ready: How Wemerson Learned to Code and Landed a Dream Job in a Web3 Startup

Meet Wemerson Queiroz ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท! Wemerson never thought he was going to become a developer. He started studying computer science, dropped out, and spent ten years working in ...

How to Create a Web Dev Portfolio That Both HR and Other Developers Will Love, with Josh Comeau

Meet Josh W. Comeau ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ! Josh is a developer, indie hacker, educator, and author. He worked in some companies you might have heard of (including, but not limited to, Di...

Interview Your Interviewers and Find Somebody Who Believes in Your Skills: How Jonathan Became a Developer in Three Months

Meet Jonathan Gauthier ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ! Jonathan volunteered when the company where he worked needed somebody to figure out how to turn a Figma design into a website. The rest is h...

Nadia Zhuk: Anybody Can Code, and Your Background Doesn't Define You

Meet Nadia Zhuk ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡พ! Nadia made a switch to coding from journalism at the age of 25. That decision has got her moving countries not once, but twice! Nowadays, she lives...

Do the Projects You Find Fun and Take Time To Process Rejection: Actor-Turned-Developer Ollie Church

Meet Ollie Church ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง! Ollie started out as an actor. He took up coding as a hobby during a lockdown and made a puzzle game partially inspired by an escape room where h...

Be a Librarian, Not an Encyclopedia of Code: How To Learn (and Teach) Better, With Guil Hernandez

Meet Guil Hernandez ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ! You've heard of a learning curve, but what about the forgetting curve? Don't worry, Guil can help you not get overwhelmed. He is a developer an...

Scrimba Community Hero Yin Chu: Be Consistent, Play the Long Game, and Help Others

Meet Yin Chu Rijnaard ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ! Yin Chu is a new developer who landed a job offer after only seven months of learning to code! In the meantime, he also became a Scrimba Comm...

How to Become Good at Networking, with Recruiter-turned-developer Cameron Blackwood

Meet Cameron ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง! Cameron is a full-stack software engineer, podcaster, and co-founder of The Coder Career. But before learning to code, he studied business - and worke...

Hurry Up, but Slowly: How Ansub Knew When To Go Back to Basics and Relearn Web Development From Scratch

Meet Ansub Khan ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ! Ansub has always been drawn to front-end development, but he took a couple of detours: he studied computer science and tried to learn C, C++, and P...

Shannon Brown: There's a human side of recruiting, and here's how to get onto it!

Meet Shannon Brown ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ! Shannon is an experienced tech recruiter, and in this interview, she will teach you how to get your foot in the door even if you're coming from ...

Career Change on Maternity Leave: How Kynnedy Learned To Code, Became a Code Reviewer, and Landed Her First Developer Job

Meet Kynnedy ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ! She recently made history as the first student who found a job through Scrimba's Discord! She originally wanted to be an air traffic controller, but e...

How not to struggle with CSS, with Kevin Powell

Meet Kevin Powell ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ! Kevin is a CSS Evangelist and educator. He makes weekly YouTube videos, streams on twitch, writes articles, and teaches courses. His mission is t...

Career Change in Just a Year: How Anthony Hacked His Productivity and Got Hired Ten Minutes After an Interview!

Meet Anthony ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ! Anthony worked as a Guest Experience Teamleader at the Sea Life aquarium in Scheveningen, where he got his feet wet in the world of the web by helping...

How to make your LinkedIn profile standout according to a LinkedIn expert

Meet Austin Henline ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ! Austin works at LinkedIn and has reviewed more than 1200 LinkedIn profiles. In this episode, Austin teaches you how to make your LinkedIn profi...

From Doctor to Developer

Meet Jefferson Tang ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ! Being a doctor is one of the most prestigious jobs out there, but Jefferson's coding itch would not go away! Enoramoured with web3 and the unli...

An expert guide to technical interviews with Ian Douglas from Postman

Meet Ian Douglas ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ! Ian has been in the industry for 26 years and in this episode, imparts his wisdom about how stand out then succeed at technical interviews to you.

How Ineza stood out with a "why you should hire me" video

After completing #100DaysOfCode and building a beautiful portfolio, Ineza got his foot in the door by recording a charming "why you should hire me" video.

How to become a successful Junior Developer with Scott Hanselman from Microsoft

Meet Scott Hanselman ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ! Scott has been coding for 30 years, blogging for 20, and podcasting for 16. In this episode, Scott reflects on his career to share the most im...

How LinkedIn helped Buse become a Junior Dev in London

Meet Buse Hizarci ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง! She just got her first Junior Developer role in London.Itโ€™s one of the most competitive tech cities in the world, yet the recruiter came to her...

Why nobody hires junior developers anymore according to an engineering manager

Gregory made an alarming observation: While the industry is going nuts for experienced senior developers, it would seem no one is really hiring junior developers. Why...

How Robert got his first developer job at 33

Meet Robert Corrado ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ! Rob tried to become a coder several times, but as a business owner and Dad, it was hard to carve out time and really make it stick! It was duri...

How to Actually Use a Web Developer Roadmap: Mike Karan on Better Learning and Must-Have Skills for Junior Developers

Mike is a successful web development business owner and a co-host of the HTML All The Things podcast. He joins us to share his best advice about following roadmaps!

How to market yourself as a developer (according to a marketer turned developer!)

Meet Stefi Rosca ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ. When Stefi applied to work Adevinta, they ignored her! It was only through her perseverance (following up and connecting with people in the comp...

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