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4 reasons why coding academy students make for kicka.ss developers.
Coding academies are flourishing, but are their graduates getting hired? Thanks to coding academies the developer workforce is seeing some much-needed growth, but many employers need a bit of persuasion to consider hiring a bootcamp grad.

In this post, I’ll explain why coding academy grads have many strengths which can make them great hires.

Job applicants who’ve learned the ropes through a coding academy, bootcamp or online course lack experience, theoretical comp-sci knowledge, and can be unadaptable. These are the common complaints from employers, and there’s no denying some truth to these observations.

I studied Electrical Engineering at college. It was a wide-ranging course that covered data, statistics, maths, science, physics, electronics and a bit of programming, and it formed a great theoretical foundation for my later career as a software engineer. But times have changed: Rapid advances in machine learning, data science, natural language processing and other AI-related fields mean that the theory and skills today’s university students are studying may well be redundant in just a few short years.