5 Things You Need to Know as a New Developer

  Learning to code is hard. It’s so common to have doubts about yourself or your skill level. Maybe you feel like you’re simply going through the motions because you can’t reproduce everything yourself without a certain amount of guidance. Referring back to previous code, notes, or documentation is normal and something that even senior…

Michael Farrell

Interview with John Ellison — Digital Designer

In this interview, we talk with John Ellison, a lead product designer formerly of Clearleft— a top UX agency in the UK— and social entrepreneur at heart about his experience building an organization and web application from the ground up. John came to Firehose to learn Ruby on Rails and dive into back-end development, and…

Jenna Wang

Our 4-Year Journey To Launching The Firehose Advanced Programming Course

We’re setting out to jailbreak the traditional bootcamp model and give graduates the platform to continue evolving their skills well after they land their first developer job. We’re launching the Firehose Advanced Programming Course, the first graduate coding course for coding bootcamp graduates. The course is designed to help new programmers accelerate their growth and become highly-valued contributors on…

Marco Morawec

Training for the Technical Interview

Jonathan Hsieh is a Firehose mentor and tech lead at a startup in the on-demand space. Previously, he was the director of engineering at Akuda Labs which sold to Target. He wrote this guest post for our blog based on his own experiences interviewing and hiring new developers and the conversations he had with our…

Jenna Wang