The Scrimba Podcast

End of Season One, and a Message from Alex Booker

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So this is goodbye. But do not unsubscribe!It's the end of what will now be known as Season One of the Scrimba podcast! And Alex Booker is stepping do...

Why Open Source Can Be the Perfect Place for New Developers – and How to Get Started, with Deb Goodkin from the FreeBSD Foundation

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Deb Goodkin! Deb is the Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation. The Foundation supports the FreeBSD project and community. FreeBSD is a pow...

Tangible Benefits: Why AI Is Here to Stay and How New Developers Can Find the Right Balance, with Sam Julien from Writer

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Sam Julien 🇺🇸! Sam is a director of Developer Relations at Writer, a teacher, and the author of Getting Started in Developer Relations. He ...

Learn to Advocate for Yourself with Developer Advocate Rizel Scarlett

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Rizel Scarlett 🇺🇸! Rizel is a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD. She's also a career changer, software engineer, and community builder!Rizel ...

Career Progression Decoded: Angie Jones' Expert Tips for Entering the Tech Industry and Forging Your Unique Path

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Angie Jones 🇺🇸! Angie is a veteran software developer currently working as a global Developer Relations executive at TBD. Before that, she ...

Scrimba v2 is Here! Create Your Own Scrims, Use the Advanced Code Editor, and Learn Coding the Right Way, with Per Borgen

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scrimba v2 is here! And you probably already know this if you've visited our website recently. Scrimba cofounder and CEO Per Borgen 🇳🇴 is joinin...

The Four Stages of Interviewing: How to Conquer the Hiring Process Step by Step, with Ryan Talbert

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Ryan Talbert 🇺🇸! Ryan studied entrepreneurship and had an idea for an app. To build it, he hired a developer who scammed him and used his s...

What's New in React 19 (and What That Means for You), with Dev Agrawal

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Dev Agrawal 🇮🇳🇺🇸! Dev is a software developer, developer advocate, content creator, and A React expert deeply ingrained in the React ...

The Secret to a Meaningful Portfolio: Solve a Real-world Problem, with Scrimba Student Kevin

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Kevin Tanzyl! Originally from New Zealand, Kevin moved to Japan to become an English teacher. But after a while, he felt like he hit a plateau. K...

"No" Is Always Guaranteed... So Strive for a "Yes", with the Coding Mermaid Monica Fidalgo

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Monica Fidalgo 🇵🇹! Monica is a front-end product engineer at Cloudflare, an advocate for new developers and women in tech, as well as a tea...

Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, Shaundai Person: Here's How to Sell Yourself (and Believe in the Product 😉)

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Shaundai Person 🇺🇸! Shaundai is a senior software engineer at Netflix, but she hasn't always been a coder. She studied entrepreneurship and...

Creator of #100DaysOfCode, Alex Kallaway: Here's How to Embrace Discomfort for Growth

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet  Alex Kallaway 🇷🇺🇨🇦! Alex is a Lead Full-Stack Developer, but he hasn't always been a coder. First, he was a violinist; then, he was...

What to Do If Nobody's Hiring (and How to Slide Into Their DMs When They Do), with Rachel Nabors

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet  Rachel Lee Nabors 🇺🇸🇬🇧! They are an award-winning cartoonist who transitioned to become a developer with a passion for teaching the...

This is How Companies Think About Hiring, with Dominik Piątek

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Dominik Piątek 🇵🇱🇬🇧! Dominik moved to the UK from Poland in search of career opportunities. He worked odd jobs, acquired a varied se...

The Safe Exit: How to Quit Your Job the Right Way, with Ian Douglas

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Ian Douglas 🇺🇸🇨🇦! Developer, DevRel, Tech Educator, Career Coach, and author of The Tech Interview Guide, Ian Douglas, has been codin...

Early WhatsApp Engineer Jean Lee: Keep Trying New Things in Tech!

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Jean Lee! She was the nineteenth engineer at WhatsApp (that was even before it got acquired by Facebook!) and then worked at Meta as an engineeri...

How Not to Be Afraid of Git, with O'Reilly Author Anna Skoulikari

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

✨Use this link for a free month of O'Reilly Learning and read Anna's book and any other resource on the platform! ✨ Meet Anna Skoulikari! She's a ...

The (Not so) Hidden Benefits of Talking about Code, with Scrimba Bootcamp Lead Micha

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

✨Use this link for a 20% discount on the Scrimba bootcamp! ✨ Meet Michaella Rodriguez! If you're already in the Scrimba Discord community, you pro...

Neurodiversity in Tech and Why We Should Care About It, with Parul Singh

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Parul Singh 🇬🇧! Parul is a Tech Careers & Neurodiversity Consultant, ADHD advocate, board member at Manchester Tech Festival, Public Sp...

The Only Thing Worth Investing in Is Yourself, with Scrimba Student Özge

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Özge Ahras 🇹🇷! Özge studied computer enigneering, but felt her coding skills weren't up to par. She yearned to transition into frontend d...

How to Figure Out What You Want to Do, with Scrimba Student Amy

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Amy Posten 🇺🇸! Amy was a veterinary technician for fifteen years before she decided to switch careers. First, she discovered freeCodeCamp w...

Slow Down to Speed Up: Teacher-Turned-Developer Chris on Successful Adult Learning and Landing his Dream Role

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Chris Webster 🇬🇧! Chris is a full-stack developer based in Reading. In a past life, he taught Mandarin to both children and adults and obta...

The State of React (and Should You Still Learn It in 2024), with Dev Agrawal

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Dev Agrawal 🇮🇳🇺🇸! With a name like that, how could he not become a developer? He's a software developer, developer advocate, and cont...

Everybody's Doing Their Best... Even Tech Recruiters (and This Is How to Get Their Attention), with Parul Singh

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Parul Singh 🇬🇧! Parul is a Tech Careers & Neurodiversity Consultant, ADHD advocate, board member at Manchester Tech Festival, Public Sp...

The Making of an Industry: The Rise of AI Engineering, with Swyx

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Shawn Wang (Swyx) 🇺🇸! Swyx is a developer, writer, and startup advisor. If you listen to our show regularly, you know him as the biggest ad...

Passions, Skills, Environment, and Compensation: Career Coach Adam Broda's Framework for Navigating Today's Job Market

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Adam Broda 🇺🇸! Adam is a tech lead and career coach who helps career changers break into tech. He did the same - after a decade of working ...

Effective Living for Better Coding: From Retail to Software Engineering with Scrimba Student Cassie

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Cassie Lewis 🇺🇸! Cassie has a fine arts degree, which turned out to be too fancy for the real world. After working in...

Who's Afraid of AI Agents? The Future of Automation, with Bob Ziroll

03 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Bob Ziroll 🇺🇸! Bob is Scrimba's Head of Education and one of the Internet's favorite React teachers. His latest cours...

What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation and How to Make AI Work for You, with Guil Hernandez

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Guil Hernandez 🇺🇸! He is a developer and educator with over 15 years of experience in tech. He's also a Scrimba teach...

Demystifying AI: What Are Foundation Models (and How to Use Them), with Tom Chant

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Tom Chant 🇬🇧! Tom is a Scrimba instructor who is a part of our in-house team that brought you a brand new career path available on Scrimba....

The Path to Becoming an AI Engineer with Scrimba CEO Per Borgen

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Per Borgen 🇳🇴! Scrimba's co-founder and CEO returns to the show after more than two years. In this episode, Per and A...

What Is Productivity Anxiety and How to Beat It, with Matt and Eric from Self-Taught Devs Podcast

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Matt Ehrlich and Eric Winkelspecht 🇬🇧! They are the hosts of the Self-Taught Devs podcast. And, you guessed it, they ...

How to Find Your People and the Work You Find Exciting, with Scrimba Student Anna

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Anna Ha 🇵🇱 🇰🇷! Anna was born in Poland, where she majored in English and minored in Chinese. She then moved to ...

Mastering Corporate Culture for New Developers

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeReady for your first dev job? Today on the podcast, you'll learn how companies work and how teams stay efficient. How does a typ...

Nadia Zhuk: Anybody Can Code, and Your Background Doesn't Define You

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeThis is a rebroadcast of one of our most popular interviews. Meet Nadia Zhuk 🇧🇾! Nadia made a switch to coding from journa...

How Johnny Learned Angular and Typescript in Three Days

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Johnny Proano 🇺🇸! Johnny had a long and happy career in sales, spanning almost two decades. But, something was missin...

Changing Careers? This Is How to Defeat the Sunk Cost Fallacy, with Doctor-turned-developer Shona

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Shona Chan 🇸🇬🇬🇧! Shona was an anesthesiologist. Now, she's a developer. It all started when she wanted to write...

Learning to Code with ADHD: How Zuza Landed Her First Tech Job after Only Four Months

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Zuza Grońska 🇵🇱🇳🇱! Zuza is a recently hired new developer with a previous career in social media marketing in ...

It's All about Your Additude: Building a Software Apprenticeship Program with Luke Hovee

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Luke Hovee 🇺🇸! After a career in the US Army, Luke didn't know what to do next. He was considering a career in constr...

Ultimate LinkedIn Guide: Listen to This If You’re Working on Your LinkedIn Profile

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeNo matter where you are in your career journey - whether you're a new developer just looking to break into the industry or an in...

Treat Learning to Code Like an RPG (and You Might Get a Job in Three Business Days), with Scrimba student Tomáš

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Tomáš Lukeš 🇨🇿! Tomáš is an audio engineer turned primary school teacher turned developer! In only nine months, ...

What Are the Most Common React Mistakes? Inside a React Job Simulator with Johannes Kettmann

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Johannes Kettmann 🇩🇪! Johannes is a Fullstack JavaScript Developer from Germany who's also the mastermind behind prof...

How Mohamed Landed a Dev Job Through Instagram

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Mohamed Amine Hachemi! Mohamed is a full-stack developer who recently landed his first dev job! But that's not the most ama...

Are You a New Developer? Follow This One Tip! (With Scrimba Student Danny)

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Danny Vogel 🇩🇪🇪🇸! Danny is a lawyer-turned-developer who decided to switch careers after ten years in law! In h...

From Lab Coat to Code: Vanessa's Path from Lab Scientist to Developing Lab Software

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Vanessa Vun 🇺🇸! Vanessa is a long-time listener of the Scrimba podcast. She's also a career changer who has spent a d...

How to Create a Personal Brand as a Developer

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodePersonal branding is something we often mention on this podcast. However, it is also something many developers don’t prioritiz...

Is This Easy Mode? Breaking into Tech in 400 Hours, with Writer-Turned-Developer Jen-Li Lim

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Jen-Li Lim 🇲🇾! Jen is a writer-turned-developer who has recently landed her first developer job! Although she had bee...

This Is How You Onboard: Actionable Tips for Developers On a New Job from Ian Douglas

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Ian Douglas 🇺🇸🇨🇦! The first repeat guest on the Scrimba Podcast and author of The Tech Interview Guide, Ian Dou...

How Kyle Became a Developer and Found His First Dev Job in Just Four Months

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Kyle Tan 🇵🇭! A business major with an unrelenting passion for coding, Kyle decided he couldn't wait any longer to pur...

How Teacher-Turned-Developer Jess Secured a Tech Job Even Before Learning to Code

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Jess Gilbert 🇬🇧! Jess recently made a career change from being a primary school teacher to becoming a developer. In t...

How not to struggle with CSS, with Kevin Powell

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeThis is a rebroadcast of one of our most popular interviews. Meet Kevin Powell 🇨🇦! Kevin is a CSS Evangelist and educator....

The Power of Domain Knowledge: How Katrina Skipped Junior Roles and Immediately Landed a Senior Developer Job

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Katrina Tucker 🇺🇸! Katrina recently changed careers and got her first software engineering job. But here's the intere...

OpenAI for Developers: How to Use AI for Coding, with Tom Chant

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Tom Chant 🇬🇧! Tom is a Scrimba instructor who has just released a course on building your own AI apps! In this episod...

How to Get Your First Dev Job by Playing Call of Duty, with Scrimba Student Shaun

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Shaun Jackie Hickman 🇬🇧! Shaun is a new developer who has recently landed his first dev job after meeting his now bos...

Career Progression Decoded: Angie Jones' Expert Tips for Entering the Tech Industry and Forging Your Unique Path

23 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Angie Jones 🇺🇸! Angie is a veteran software developer currently working as a global Developer Relations executive at ...

Cooking Up a Career Change: Overcoming Burnout and Finding Your Why with Scrimba Student Jimmy

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Jimmy Johnston 🇺🇸! Jimmy is a sous-chef turned developer who's just landed his first developer job after working in t...

Laura Thorson From GitHub: This Is How You Master the Mindset of a Programmer

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Laura Thorson 🇺🇸! Laura is a Program Manager at GitHub and has previously worked at Facebook, Twitter, and Salesforce...

How To Get an Internship at Meta (Also: Follow Your Passion), With Scrimba Student Gabriel

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Gabriel Pedroza 🇺🇸! Gabriel is a Scrimba student who has just landed his first internship. And the internship is at M...

Tech Is Hiring, and Here's What You Need to Do! (With Chad Stewart)

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Chad Stewart 🇯🇲! Chad is a Senior Front End Engineer and the founder of TechIsHiring - it's a hashtag, a community, a...

Niche Down to Blow Up: Scrimba Student Leo Reveals How to Land an Awesome First Dev Job

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Leo de Leon 🇺🇸! Leo was a successful self-taught motion graphics designer. Today, he's a successful self-taught devel...

Becoming a Standout Developer, with Randall Kanna

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeThis is a rebroadcast of one of our most popular interviews. Meet Randall Kanna 🇺🇸! Randall is a software developer, lead ...

Ask Better Questions, Get Better Jobs: How Spencer Sped up His Interview Process and Got an Offer Only Four Days after the First Interview

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Spencer Dye 🇺🇸! Spencer is a new developer who recently got his first dev job! In the past, he was a designer, but be...

Learn to Advocate for Yourself with GitHub Developer Advocate Rizel Scarlett

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Rizel Scarlett 🇺🇸! Rizel is a Developer Advocate at GitHub. She's also a career changer, software engineer, and commu...

Pre-Interview Nerves Are Just Stage Fright: Learn How to Manage Them With Pianist-Turned-Developer Emre

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Emre Albayrak 🇹🇷!  Emre is a classical pianist from Turkey who decided to change careers, so he trained as a pilot! ...

CodeNewbie Founder Saron Yitbarek: New to Coding? Take Action with These Practical Tips

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Saron Yitbarek 🇺🇸! Saron is a developer, entrepreneur, community builder, and the founder of CodeNewbie. Saron has be...

How Butcher-Turned-Developer Jamie Got the First Coding Job He Applied For

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Jamie Baker 🇬🇧! Jamie is a recently hired new developer who used to be a butcher. Recently, he took the plunge to lea...

Tech Layoffs Are Still Happening, and ChatGPT Can Code: How To Stay Ahead of the Curve as a New Developer, With Lane Wagner

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Lane Wagner 🇺🇸! Lane is an engineering manager and the founder of Boot.dev. In this episode, as an experienced leader...

Why Finding a Mission Fit Is Important, with Scrimba Student Matheus

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Matheus Pessoa 🇧🇷! Matheus is a recently hired new developer who landed his first junior developer job after only abo...

How Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann Went from Being Self-taught to Bootstrapping a Company

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Mathias Biilmann 🇩🇰! Matt is CEO and Co-founder of Netlify, a cloud computing company you might have heard of. He's a...

How to Use Twitter to Beat Your Social Anxiety and Land Your First Job, with Scrimba Student Trecia

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Trecia Kat 🇿🇦! Trecia is a new developer from South Africa who originally wanted to work in healthcare. She eventuall...

How to Get Better at Communication and Teamwork, with Patrick Akil

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Patrick Akil 🇳🇱! Patrick is a software engineer, Golang trainer, and the host of the Beyond Coding podcast. In this i...

Reach out to People You Know and You'll Be Surprised: From Comedian to Developer with Scrimba Student Amy

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Amy Corson 🇺🇸! Amy is a recently hired new developer. She's also an aspiring comedian! During the pandemic, she reali...

It's about Who You Know: An Introvert's Guide to Networking (and Becoming Amazing at LinkedIn), with Stephanie Chiu from PayPal

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Stephanie Chiu 🇺🇸! Stephanie is a self-taught iOS software engineer and career coach. She's also a chemical engineer ...

Don't Be Afraid to Take Breaks, but Make Sure to Keep Going: Juggling Learning to Code and a Full-time Job with Scrimba Student Marleigh

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Marleigh Morgan 🇺🇸! Marleigh is a recently hired graphic designer turned developer. She has always wanted to learn to...

On Bootcamps, Networking, and Job Hunting During a Recession, with Don the Developer

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Don Hansen 🇺🇸! Don is a software engineer and developer mentor who helps aspiring juniors land their first opportunit...

This Scrimba Student Learned Job Interviewing Skills from Podcasts (and Made a Killer Portfolio, Too)

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Mislav Markušić 🇭🇷! Mislav is a new developer from Croatia who has changed careers at the age of 40. After attendin...

How to Fast Track Your Developer Career, with Katy Ashby

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Katy Ashby 🇬🇧! Katy studied physics before becoming a developer, and once she did, she went from a complete novice to...

How to Avoid Burnout, Improve Your Confidence and Keep Coding Fun, with Scrimba Student Sylvia

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Sylvialynn Favello 🇺🇸! Sylvia got exposed to coding accidentally: by watching online courses for fun after she took a...

Listen to This If You're Working on Your Developer Portfolio, with Alex from TechRally

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Alexander Lee 🇺🇸! Alexander, also known as TechRally, is a front-end engineer at Amazon. He's also a developer coach,...

Code Like Nobody Is Watching: On Community, Learning, and Finding the Right Culture Fit, With Scrimba Student James

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet James Marriott 🇬🇧! He's a software developer and a career changer who previously worked in education, project managem...

How To Figure Out Your Strengths as a Career Changer, With Caitlyn Greffly

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Caitlyn Greffly 🇺🇸! She's a career changer, developer career mentor, and the author of The Bootamper's Companion, a b...

Hired by Coca Cola! How Michael Learned Coding on Work Breaks and Changed Careers at 51

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Michael Robards 🇺🇸! Michael is a career changer whose path to becoming a developer was a long and winding one: he was...

Homeschooler, College Dropout, Developer and Master Networker: Crush Your Career with Madison Kanna

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Madison Kanna 🇺🇸! She's a front-end developer and a creator of a coding book club. She's also a college dropout, a ma...

From Growing Up as a Coder to an Internship at Microsoft, with Scrimba Student Rían Errity

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Rían Errity 🇮🇪! He's a Scrimba student who started learning to code as a child. Today, he studies Computer Science a...

How To Be Strategic About Your Learning and Career, With Mike Chen

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Mike Chen 🇺🇸! Mike is a self-taught developer who worked at Yahoo, Google, and Airbnb, before becoming a CTO and co-f...

How This Junior Developer Tripled Their Salary Within One Year of Getting Hired

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Vikas Jyani 🇮🇳! He studied fine arts before discovering coding and realizing that web development is what can combine...

Bootcamp Mentor Hussien Khayoon: Careers Come in Three Phases and Here’s How To Navigate Them

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Hussien Khayoon 🇨🇦! Hussien is a Full-stack engineer with almost a decade of experience. Currently, he works as a Sta...

Consistent and Persistent: This Scrimba Student Battled Depression and Landed a Job at Amazon After 1000 LeetCode Challenges

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Khaidem Sandip Singha 🇺🇸! He's a Scrimba student from Assam, India, who recently got a job at Amazon! 🎉 Originally...

A Teacher's Job Is Never Done: Get Your Hands on the Keyboard with Bob Ziroll

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Bob Ziroll 🇺🇸! Bob is Scrimba's Head of Education and one of the Internet's favorite React teachers. In a past life, ...

How Pastor-Turned-Developer Chris Crushed It on LinkedIn and Landed an Internship... and a Job

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Chris McCoy 🇺🇸! He's a pastor who did odd jobs on the side. But he was always interested in coding! Somewhere between...

Quincy Larson: Why Learning To Code as an Adult Might Be Easier Than You Think

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Quincy Larson 🇺🇸! Quincy is the founder of freeCodeCamp, a nonprofit company that makes coding accessible for all. He...

Drumroll, Please: Make Your Portfolio Projects Fun and Prepare for the Following Questions

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Stevie Gill 🇬🇧! Stevie was a scientist, a medical writer and an editor, and then he wrote about video games. Eventual...

Understanding Corporate Hierarchy (and Perfecting Your Resume), With Tiffany Jachja

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Tiffany Jachja 🇺🇸! Tiffany is a data scientist, career coach, engineering manager, and Twitch streamer! By day, she w...

Don’t Compare Yourself to Other New Developers: Scrimba Student Silvia on Changing Careers

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Silvia Piovesan 🇮🇹! Silvia is a Scrimba student who recently got for job offers after four different interviews. But ...

How To Learn To Code From the Free Content on YouTube, With Jessica Chan

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Jess Chan 🇺🇸! Jess's YouTube channel, Coder Coder, has almost 400,000 subscribers at the time of recording. She's a w...

Talent Alone Is Not Enough: How Theo Changed Careers at 49 and Landed a Paid Web Dev Apprenticeship

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Theo Ntogiakos 🇬🇧! Theo has just switched careers at the age of 49! Recently, he landed a paid apprenticeship and is ...

What Are Company Values… and Why You Should Know Your Own, with Dave Mayer

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Dave Mayer 🇺🇸! Dave is a founder and CEO of Technical Integrity, a boutique recruiting firm famous for its culture-fi...

Take a Chance, Even If Things Sound Weird and You Don't Feel Ready: How Wemerson Learned to Code and Landed a Dream Job in a Web3 Startup

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Wemerson Queiroz 🇧🇷! Wemerson never thought he was going to become a developer. He started studying computer science,...

How to Create a Web Dev Portfolio That Both HR and Other Developers Will Love, with Josh Comeau

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Josh W. Comeau 🇨🇦! Josh is a developer, indie hacker, educator, and author. He worked in some companies you might hav...

Interview Your Interviewers and Find Somebody Who Believes in Your Skills: How Jonathan Became a Developer in Three Months

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

🎙 About the episodeMeet Jonathan Gauthier 🇨🇦! Jonathan volunteered when the company where he worked needed somebody to figure out how to turn...