Breaking into tech in 2022

I’ve spent the last decade or so helping people on their coding journey. Through podcasts, events, talks, social media, I’ve spent most of my career helping people break into tech and become developers. Most of my work has been through content — I communicate with my audience through stories and the occasional email. I’ve conducted hundreds of interviews over the years but most of my communication with my audience has been through the things I make. The last few months have been different. Recently, I decided to spend some time working directly with individuals looking to break into the industry. I posted a few tweets asking people to DM me if they wanted job search help, and over the last three months, I’ve spent much of my time talking to folks one-on-one about their goals, their resumes, their fears and frustrations. I’ve shared a lot of advice and perspective from years of being in this industry, but I’ve also learned a lot from them and what it’s like to break into tech in 2022. Here are three things that stood out to me: <h2>Bootcamps are for learning, the job is on you</h2> When I broke into tech almost a decade ago, I did it through a coding bootcamp. Back then, bootcamps were much newer, shinier, and came with a promise that we believed at face value. The promise wasn’t just that you could learn to code in 12 weeks, but that you could learn to code well enough to be employed. Bootcamps often had a science fair at the end of the program where you could showcase what you learned and built, and the assumption was that there were employers eagerly lining up to hire you the day you graduated. <a href="https://medium.com/@saronyitbarek/breaking-into-tech-in-2022-123c59c6ee49">Read More</a>