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

Meet Stevie Gill 🇬🇧! 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 🇺🇸! 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...

Don’t Compare Yourself to Other New Developers: Scrimba Student Silvia on Changing Careers

Meet Silvia Piovesan 🇮🇹! 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 🇺🇸! 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 🇬🇧! 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 Values… and Why You Should Know Your Own, with Dave Mayer

Meet Dave Mayer 🇺🇸! 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 🇧🇷! 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 🇨🇦! 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 🇨🇦! 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 🇧🇾! 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 🇬🇧! 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 🇺🇸! 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 🇳🇱! 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 🇬🇧! 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 🇮🇳! 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 🇺🇸! 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 🇺🇸! 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 🇨🇦! 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 🇳🇱! 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 🇺🇸! 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 🇦🇺! 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 🇺🇸🇨🇦! 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 🇺🇸! 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 🇹🇷🇬🇧! She just got her first Junior Developer role in London.It’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 🇺🇸! 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 🇷🇴🇪🇸. 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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