The latest news and insights on coding and the tech industry
General
Is tech only for logical thinkers?
Brains are marvellous things. The brain is the physical manifestation of our consciousness, hosting 86 billion neurons that constantly fire to make connections with synapses, ultimately giving way to our body’s speech, thought, and movement, among other abilities.
Clare Townley
Junior Content Creator
Recruitment and Hiring
Top Tips to Ace a Job Interview
Interviews can seem daunting no matter how seasoned you are at them, especially when you are changing careers. However, being well prepared is often the key to acing them.
Keely Madgin
Senior Career Consultant
Tech Education
An Introduction to Data Engineering
Data engineering is a rapidly growing specialism in the tech sector concerned with collecting, accessing, and storing raw data. They use their engineering knowledge to build systems to ensure this raw data can be easily analysed – typically by data scientists or business analysts.
Beatrix Matyas
Marketing Manager
Writing a CV for your first tech job
Struggling to talk about your professional strengths when writing your CV? Fear not! We’ve laid out a step-by-step route to writing a perfect CV for your first tech job. We hope this blog will give you inspiration, tips, good guidance and good practice for those of you graduating from the Northcoders bootcamp.
Elliot Fernihough
Junior content producer
When is the right time to take the Entry Challenge
You’ve been learning a lot of new things in a short span of time so it’s normal to not feel 100% ready! Here we explain when is the right time to take the Entry Challenge.
Elenia Graf
Onboarding advisor
Bootcamp Life
What computer do I need for the Northcoders Coding Bootcamp?
A question that we get asked a lot by people preparing for the Northcoders Coding Bootcamp is “What laptop or computer do I need to do the course?”.
Paul Rogerson
Software Development Lead
How Northcoders Will Help You Become a Software Engineer, Without a Degree
Are you’re interested in a career in coding, but can’t decide between uni or a bootcamp?
The Northcoders Experience
They say celebrate all wins, big or small. Northcoders felt like a pretty big win.
James Grant
Graduate
Passed the Halfway Mark on my Coding Bootcamp Journey
Backend block complete, almost...
Katie Masters
Student