Booting Up: Hiring and Growing Boot Camp Graduates
summary
States the concrete claim: in 2015 nearly a hundred programming boot camps produce thousands of graduates, and hiring needs change accordingly. Describes which skills matter—Ruby and Rails, JavaScript, git, Heroku, testing—and which assessment works: a nontrivial program with I/O or API work, paired coding, and collaborative critiques. Offers process fixes: written hiring criteria, lightning talks, mentors that cut onboarding (from six to three months), and the cultural core of belief in improvement reinforced by accountabilibuddy pairing.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 3:33Where Are We Going?
- 6:58Ye Olde Traditione
- 9:19A Survey of the Field
- 10:22What These Students Learn
- 19:56Talkception
- 25:57Accountabilibuddies
- 27:24TL;DPA
- 30:28Questions?
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