Welcome to The Scrimba Podcast

Career Advice From a Vue Core Team Member

Ben is a Senior Staff Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify and Vue Core Team member. He joins us to share his best advice about learning to code and the many caree...

Learning to Code Alongside a Full-Time Job: How Josh Went from Property Manager to Junior Developer in 10 Months with Scrimba

Meet Joshua Smith 🇦🇺! While working full-time as a property manager, Joshua made time after work to learn to code on Scrimba. After just 10 months and, in part, thanks...

Lessons Learned Recruiting and Managing Junior Developers for 10 Years

Jason has been recruiting and supporting Junior Developers for more than a decade! He joins us to share his inspiring story breaking into tech after sustaining a head ...

Advice from a Junior Developer Career Coach

Anna is well-regarded as the Opera singer who turned into a Developer! Aside from working full-time, Anna also coaches Junior Developers on her YouTube channel, Twitte...

3 Months and 600 Job Applications Later: How Fredrik Became a Junior Developer in Record Time with Scrimba

Meet Fredrik Ridderfalk from Sweden 🇸🇪! He went from not knowing any code to landing a Junior Developer role in just 3 months! Here is how.

How to become a successful Junior Developer with Danny Thompson

🎙 About the episode Meet Danny Thompson 🇺🇸! Danny worked in gas stations frying chicken for 10 years before teaching himself how to code. Since then, he’s gone from s...

This Scrimba student dropped out of college to learn online instead - now she's a Junior Developer!

Meet Elly! She dropped out from their CompiSci degree to double down on frontend web development with Scrimba. After showing a recruiter their beautifully-presented po...

Origin of the name Scrimba, winning the lottery, and our biggest mistakes - Christmas special QnA with Team Scrimba

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! In this special episode, Scrimba co-founders Per (CEO) and Sindre (CTO), plus Bob, Leanne, Michael, Abdellah, and Matias from Tea...

Career advice from the maintainer Redux, Mark Erikson

Mark maintains Redux and is a seasoned developer with more than a decade of professional experience coding and working with Juniors. Alex and Mark explore if beginners...

Recruited by Activision to code email templates (best first Developer job ever?)

Tony is a successful Scrimba student from Los Angeles who was recently got their first Junior Developer job at Activision!🎙 About the episode Tony is a successful Scr...

How an effective portfolio landed Claire her first remote Junior Developer role

Claire Ramming is a successful Scrimba student from New York City 🇺🇸, who recently got their first full-time developer job 🎉!

From Photographer to Developer at 35

At the ripe age of 35 and after 3 arduous years learning to code alongside a full-time job and 70 job applications, this is the interview about how Christopher from Ge...

Becoming a Standout Developer with Randall Kanna

Once upon a time, Randall learned the unsettling truth that almost everyone on her team earned more money than her. She mustered the courage to confront her her boss a...

From a PhD in Materials Science to Junior Developer with Scrimba

Maeling earned a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering before realising her passion for code! After months of practice and with help from her new friends in various...

Advice from a Senior Silicon Valley Engineer

Swizec Teller moved from Slovenia to Silicon Valley to work with the best engineers on the most challenging problems. Along the way, he hired and continuous to mentor ...

From Guitar Teacher to Software Developer after Scrimba

John Mckay (also known fondly as Johno in the Scrimba community) used to work as a Guitar Teacher. After learning to code on Scrimba, he now works as a full-time train...

Last-minute guide to Hacktoberfest (there's still time), featuring GitHub Star Of The Year, Eddie Jaoude

The month-long celebration of Hacktoberfest is nearly over but don't threat! There's still time to get involved and potentially earn a Hacktoberfest T-shirt. In this e...

How to make money as a developer with Florin Pop

Florin Pop is a JavaScript developer who made $22K in August. In this episode, Florin and Alex outline several ways to make money if you know how to code and are willi...

From Circus to coding - how Milos turned COVID into an opportunity

At 32 years of age and after 10 years of climbing the ranks in the theatre industry, Milos Dokic from Australia had to start again because of the pandemic.