Latest Junior developers Podcast Episodes
Creator of #100DaysOfCode, Alex Kallaway: Here's How to Embrace Discomfort for Growth
The Scrimba Podcast - May 08, 2024 20:53 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet 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 interested in having a business; he worked in product management and digital marketing. At one point, he was determined to become a developer and was...
What to Do If Nobody's Hiring (and How to Slide Into Their DMs When They Do), with Rachel Nabors
The Scrimba Podcast - May 01, 2024 19:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet Rachel Lee Nabors 🇺🇸🇬🇧! They are an award-winning cartoonist who transitioned to become a developer with a passion for teaching the world how to code. Rachel has worked at major tech companies such as Microsoft, AWS, and Meta. At Meta, they were a pivotal contributor to react.dev,...
This is How Companies Think About Hiring, with Dominik Piątek
The Scrimba Podcast - April 24, 2024 22:08 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet Dominik Piątek 🇵🇱🇬🇧! Dominik moved to the UK from Poland in search of career opportunities. He worked odd jobs, acquired a varied set of skills, and became a partner in a digital agency at the age of 23. That's where he got interested in front-end development, and more than a decad...
The Safe Exit: How to Quit Your Job the Right Way, with Ian Douglas
The Scrimba Podcast - April 17, 2024 20:40 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet Ian Douglas 🇺🇸🇨🇦! Developer, DevRel, Tech Educator, Career Coach, and author of The Tech Interview Guide, Ian Douglas, has been coding professionally since 1996. During that time, he worked at seventeen different companies! So, he probably knows a thing or two about how to transiti...
Early WhatsApp Engineer Jean Lee: Keep Trying New Things in Tech!
The Scrimba Podcast - April 10, 2024 20:09 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet 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 engineering manager for six years after the acquisition. She helped set up WhatsApp's London office and also worked on diversity, equity, and incl...
How Not to Be Afraid of Git, with O'Reilly Author Anna Skoulikari
The Scrimba Podcast - April 03, 2024 19:08 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating✨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 UX designer turned front-end developer, senior technical writer, and the author of "Learning Git" - a book published by O'Reilly Media that t...
The (Not so) Hidden Benefits of Talking about Code, with Scrimba Bootcamp Lead Micha
The Scrimba Podcast - March 28, 2024 23:42 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating✨Use this link for a 20% discount on the Scrimba bootcamp! ✨ Meet Michaella Rodriguez! If you're already in the Scrimba Discord community, you probably know her. If not, she's a career changer who discovered Scrimba while learning, like many; she was active in the Scrimba community when...
Neurodiversity in Tech and Why We Should Care About It, with Parul Singh
The Scrimba Podcast - March 22, 2024 12:21 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet Parul Singh 🇬🇧! Parul is a Tech Careers & Neurodiversity Consultant, ADHD advocate, board member at Manchester Tech Festival, Public Speaker, and a former recruitment marketing partner and tech recruiter. The last time she was on the show, she gave us advice on how to stand out and...
The Only Thing Worth Investing in Is Yourself, with Scrimba Student Özge
The Scrimba Podcast - March 13, 2024 20:40 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet Özge Ahras 🇹🇷! Özge studied computer enigneering, but felt her coding skills weren't up to par. She yearned to transition into frontend development and explore cutting-edge technologies, but the company she had spent eight years in was relying on vanilla javascript. Eventually, she...
How to Figure Out What You Want to Do, with Scrimba Student Amy
The Scrimba Podcast - March 05, 2024 20:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet Amy Posten 🇺🇸! Amy was a veterinary technician for fifteen years before she decided to switch careers. First, she discovered freeCodeCamp while on maternity leave. Later, she joined a premium bootcamp but didn't feel quite ready to apply for coding jobs afterward, so she turned to ...
Slow Down to Speed Up: Teacher-Turned-Developer Chris on Successful Adult Learning and Landing his Dream Role
The Scrimba Podcast - February 23, 2024 17:07 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet Chris Webster 🇬🇧! Chris is a full-stack developer based in Reading. In a past life, he taught Mandarin to both children and adults and obtained a master's degree in education. If you're guessing that this episode is about pedagogy, maintaining your mindset, and learning hacks, you'...
The State of React (and Should You Still Learn It in 2024), with Dev Agrawal
The Scrimba Podcast - February 08, 2024 23:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet Dev Agrawal 🇮🇳🇺🇸! With a name like that, how could he not become a developer? He's a software developer, developer advocate, and content creator. Moreover, he's a React expert deeply ingrained in the React community. That's why we invited him onto the show to shed light on the curr...
Everybody's Doing Their Best... Even Tech Recruiters (and This Is How to Get Their Attention), with Parul Singh
The Scrimba Podcast - January 31, 2024 21:41 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet Parul Singh 🇬🇧! Parul is a Tech Careers & Neurodiversity Consultant, ADHD advocate, board member at Manchester Tech Festival, Public Speaker, and a former recruitment marketing partner and tech recruiter. If you're familiar with the topic of neurodiversity in tech, you've probably ...
The Making of an Industry: The Rise of AI Engineering, with Swyx
The Scrimba Podcast - January 24, 2024 23:20 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet Shawn Wang (Swyx) 🇺🇸! Swyx is a developer, writer, and startup advisor. If you listen to our show regularly, you know him as the biggest advocate for learning in public! Today, he's the founder of smol.ai and a podcast host and teacher at Latent Space. Last summer, Swyx wrote a blo...
Passions, Skills, Environment, and Compensation: Career Coach Adam Broda's Framework for Navigating Today's Job Market
The Scrimba Podcast - January 17, 2024 23:15 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet 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 in aerospace engineering at Boeing, Adam now works at Amazon! Through his coaching business, Broda Coaching, Adam aids career transitioners in ...
Effective Living for Better Coding: From Retail to Software Engineering with Scrimba Student Cassie
The Scrimba Podcast - January 10, 2024 20:14 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Meet Cassie Lewis 🇺🇸! Cassie has a fine arts degree, which turned out to be too fancy for the real world. After working in different fields, from photography to retail, she got interested in coding - and it turned out to be just the right fit with how her mind works...
Who's Afraid of AI Agents? The Future of Automation, with Bob Ziroll
The Scrimba Podcast - January 03, 2024 23:31 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Meet Bob Ziroll 🇺🇸! Bob is Scrimba's Head of Education and one of the Internet's favorite React teachers. His latest course is on AI, but don't worry, there's React... I mean, ReAct in AI as well! In the previous three episodes, we defined an AI engineer and demyst...
What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation and How to Make AI Work for You, with Guil Hernandez
The Scrimba Podcast - December 20, 2023 21:05 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Meet Guil Hernandez 🇺🇸! He is a developer and educator with over 15 years of experience in tech. He's also a Scrimba teacher who is a part of the team bringing you the AI Engineer Path, and in this episode, he's helping us understand retrieval-augmented generation. ...
Demystifying AI: What Are Foundation Models (and How to Use Them), with Tom Chant
The Scrimba Podcast - December 13, 2023 23:52 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet 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.com - the AI engineer Path. In this episode, we're diving into the world of AI foundation models: what are they, how do they work, and how can...
The Path to Becoming an AI Engineer with Scrimba CEO Per Borgen
The Scrimba Podcast - November 22, 2023 17:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Meet Per Borgen 🇳🇴! Scrimba's co-founder and CEO returns to the show after more than two years. In this episode, Per and Alex delve into the emergence of a new breed of developer—the AI engineer. What defines an AI engineer? What key skills set them apart? Is machi...
What Is Productivity Anxiety and How to Beat It, with Matt and Eric from Self-Taught Devs Podcast
The Scrimba Podcast - November 14, 2023 22:20 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Meet Matt Ehrlich and Eric Winkelspecht 🇬🇧! They are the hosts of the Self-Taught Devs podcast. And, you guessed it, they are self-taught devs and career changers to boot. Matt was a park ranger, and Eric worked at an IT solutions company but didn't code. Today, the...
How to Find Your People and the Work You Find Exciting, with Scrimba Student Anna
The Scrimba Podcast - October 24, 2023 22:53 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Meet Anna Ha 🇵🇱 🇰🇷! Anna was born in Poland, where she majored in English and minored in Chinese. She then moved to South Korea and set off to learn Korean and coding at the same time! Today, she works at a startup that creates tools for learning Korean. Perfect mat...
Mastering Corporate Culture for New Developers
The Scrimba Podcast - October 17, 2023 20:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Ready for your first dev job? Today on the podcast, you'll learn how companies work and how teams stay efficient. How does a typical team operate? Who do you report to? How do you know if you're the right culture fit? Why should you know what you need from your team...
Nadia Zhuk: Anybody Can Code, and Your Background Doesn't Define You
The Scrimba Podcast - October 10, 2023 20:38 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode This is a rebroadcast of one of our most popular interviews. Meet Nadia Zhuk 🇧🇾! Nadia made a switch to coding from journalism at the age of 25. That decision has got her moving countries not once but twice! Nowadays, she lives in London, works at Intercom, and help...
How Johnny Learned Angular and Typescript in Three Days
The Scrimba Podcast - October 03, 2023 21:06 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Meet Johnny Proano 🇺🇸! Johnny had a long and happy career in sales, spanning almost two decades. But, something was missing, so he decided to explore coding. He thought he had to have a degree, but when it turned out he couldn't afford it, he enrolled into a bootcam...
Changing Careers? This Is How to Defeat the Sunk Cost Fallacy, with Doctor-turned-developer Shona
The Scrimba Podcast - September 26, 2023 22:39 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Meet Shona Chan 🇸🇬🇬🇧! Shona was an anesthesiologist. Now, she's a developer. It all started when she wanted to write an app to solve a problem she had at work as a doctor. One thing led to another, and eventually, she took the plunge into coding, realizing that a ca...
Learning to Code with ADHD: How Zuza Landed Her First Tech Job after Only Four Months
The Scrimba Podcast - September 19, 2023 21:18 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Meet Zuza Grońska 🇵🇱🇳🇱! Zuza is a recently hired new developer with a previous career in social media marketing in the music industry. She's also a Polish transplant who moved to the Netherlands during the pandemic. She craved a career change, and when it turned out...
It's All about Your Additude: Building a Software Apprenticeship Program with Luke Hovee
The Scrimba Podcast - September 12, 2023 20:59 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Meet Luke Hovee 🇺🇸! After a career in the US Army, Luke didn't know what to do next. He was considering a career in construction, until he stumbled upon a bootcamp teaching army veterans how to code. Today, he's a full-time web developer with a passion for helping o...
Ultimate LinkedIn Guide: Listen to This If You’re Working on Your LinkedIn Profile
The Scrimba Podcast - September 05, 2023 19:03 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode No matter where you are in your career journey - whether you're a new developer just looking to break into the industry or an industry veteran - having a strategic and up-to-date LinkedIn profile is a must. LinkedIn is something we often talk about on this podcast -...
Treat Learning to Code Like an RPG (and You Might Get a Job in Three Business Days), with Scrimba student Tomáš
The Scrimba Podcast - August 29, 2023 22:35 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating🎙 About the episode Meet Tomáš Lukeš 🇨🇿! Tomáš is an audio engineer turned primary school teacher turned developer! In only nine months, he learned to code alongside a full-time job, created an awesome portfolio, and then landed a job in three business days. What?! In this episode, yo...
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