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Meet Christie, Our New Campus Director
By Emily on Aug 17, 2020 5:33:43 AM
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A Bootcamp Grad Perspective: Hiring Process And The Job Market
By Emily on Aug 17, 2020 4:51:43 AM
Below we interview Liz, a fullstack engineer, and coding bootcamp grad. Liz works at fintech company Fabric, where she is one of four bootcamp graduates on their nine-person engineering team! Below, Liz shares her experience and provides career tips and insight including regarding employer perception of bootcamp grads and salary negotiations.
Topics: Careers Interview student interview bootcamp
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Preparing For Facebook's Data Science Interview
By Byte on Aug 17, 2020 4:13:02 AM
Read on how to prepare and ace the Data Science interview from our Data Scientist, Lesley Cordero. Lesley describes her experience taking the technical test at leading tech companies, including Facebook and Foursquare.
Topics: facebook Careers Data Science Interview
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Student Interview: Coding Bootcamp to Data Integration Engineer
By Emily on Aug 14, 2020 8:54:02 AM
Nathaniel - "Nat" - Greenwald, a statistics major in his twenties, decided to break into data science by enrolling in Byte Academy coding bootcamp. Nat now has an exciting career working as a data integration engineer in the AdTech industry. Read about Nat's personal experience learning to code in addition to his career tips and advice to those who may want to follow in his footsteps.
Topics: Student Stories students Careers Data Engineer Data Science Interview student interview
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Student Interview: From Aerospace To Blockchain CTO
By Emily on Aug 12, 2020 9:05:09 AM
Meet recent grad Stephane Gallet, whose background includes founding a travel company (based in Brazil) and aerospace. Even before graduating Byte's immersive blockchain bootcamp program, Stephane was offered a role as Chief Technology Officer (CTO)/ VP Engineering at one of New York City's leading blockchain startups where he currently is loving his job. (He even stops by to visit and collaborate with the team from his Alma Mater).
Topics: Student Stories Cryptocurrency Startup Careers Interview Blockchain student interview
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Blockless Digital Ledger Technology (DLT) & IoT
By Emily on Aug 6, 2020 7:10:47 AM
We interviewed Kevin Chen, who left his role from Wall Street upon realizing that blockchain technology could disrupt his career there, and decided to make this switch before that happens. He is now the Founder and Head of the IOTA Evangelist Network (IEN) which spreads awareness of “blockless” (non-blockchain) digital ledger technology (DLT), particularly IOTA’s Tangle protocol (some may also be familiar with IOTA’s native cryptocurrency that reached as high as $15 billion in market cap and top 5 of all cryptocurrencies late last year ).