February 3, 2015

Engineering At Hulu: Hackbright Alumna Allison Deal Talks Work Culture And Full System Ownership

Hackbright alum (class of Summer 2013) Allison Deal graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2010 with a major in Systems Engineering and minor in […]
February 3, 2015

Four Things We Love To See In A Prospective Hackbright Engineering Fellow

  1. Mastery of non-technical skills Why we’re looking for this: While we like you to have a little coding experience, it is not an absolute […]
January 28, 2015

5 Tips For Pair Programming With Junior Developers

Many tech teams hired their first junior developers last year. Many more are now considering it, and debating how to go about it. Looking at the […]
January 22, 2015

Where Are They Now? Meet 18 Hackbright Engineering Fellows

Where can you get a job out of a 10-week engineering fellowship with Hackbright Academy? Here are 18 graduates – and where they are working now! […]
January 22, 2015

Hackbright Academy Currently Accepting Applications For Upcoming Spring 2015 Engineering Fellowship!

Hackbright Academy is excited to be recruiting for our next cohort of smart, inspiring people ready to make a mark in the tech world! If you’d […]
January 14, 2015

Medium Engineer Jean Hsu on Platform Engineering and The Fallacies We Hold About Ourselves

As a software engineer, I used to think that I wasn’t interested in working on infrastructure or platform work. I thought of myself as a practical […]
January 14, 2015

A Day In The Life Of A Hackbright Student, Now Indiegogo Software Engineer Siena Aguayo!

Hackbright alumna – class of Fall 2013 – Siena Aguayo graduated from Oberlin College in 2010 with a double major in English and East Asian Studies […]
December 30, 2014

Stopping Toxicity in Your Engineering Culture

Get there by playing your part: being a person that doesn’t casually roll the eyes or point fingers victoriously, a person that believes teaching others is […]
December 29, 2014

12 Great Pieces Of Advice From Software Engineers With Diverse Backgrounds

From “how to detect female-friendliness in a company” to “do the hardest thing” — 12 female software engineers shared their advice on learning to code and […]
November 11, 2014

Hackbright Academy Goes To Pinterest!

Hackbright Academy’s Fall 2014 engineering fellows visited Pinterest headquarters in San Francisco last week! Thanks to diversity tech recruiter Kate Fiedelman, the students were treated to […]
October 30, 2014

Current Fellow Reveals Her First Impressions of Hackbright

Current Hackbright engineering fellow Wendy Dherin is deep into her fifth week at Hackbright Academy, and she has been regularly documenting her Hackbright experience. This blog […]
October 27, 2014

Hackbright Application Tips – From Your Fall 2014 Cohort!

[Updated: June 29, 2015] We sent our enrolled students a survey asking about our admissions process. Thirty of our forty students responded, and we’re excited to […]
October 16, 2014

Want a career change? Applications for Hackbright’s Winter Software Engineering Fellowship are Open!

Become a Software Engineer this January 2015! Hackbright Academy is currently accepting applications for our Winter Software Engineering Fellowship and we encourage you to apply! The next fellowship […]
October 7, 2014

Inside Scoop On How To Win A Hardware Hackathon, Despite Being New to Hardware! Team “A Graceful Exit” Explains The Learning Process

A Graceful Exit won “Best Internet Connected Hardware” by building a beautiful, functional LED visualization of bus arrival times. Below, the team members share their technical journey […]
September 10, 2014

(Video) Mattermark Data Scientist & Designer Clare Corthell on Data Prototyping – Learn Data Scripting Skills!

Mattermark Data Scientist Clare Corthell spoke at Hackbright Academy about data scripting (a powerful tool for prototyping data work) on Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at Hackbright […]
August 28, 2014

Pretty Little Liars Character A Computer Science Major? …It Could Happen… If You Tweet At The Writers!

Pretty Little Liars is one of the most-tweeted television shows and popular among American teens. Whether you love the show or not, “lots of girls watch […]