September 16, 2013

Giving Back: You Have More To Teach Than You Think

Michelle Sun is a former investment banker that became an entrepreneur, and is now working as a software engineer at Buffer. She pivoted her career from […]
September 9, 2013

What I Learned At The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon

By Gowri Grewal (Hackbright Academy – summer 2013 class) As a newly-minted Hackbright graduate – a software engineer – I was eager to test my skills […]
September 6, 2013

Hardware Hackathon for Women: Silicon Chef (October 5-6, 2013)

Silicon Chef is a hardware hackathon this October 5-6 in San Francisco for humans who identify as female. Your team will be given a box of […]
August 27, 2013

Hackbright Academy Graduates 24 Engineering Fellows This Summer 2013

“Scala hands” celebrate the last day of class for Hackbright Academy’s summer 2013 session. Ten weeks at Hackbright Academy can fly by. The students arrived in […]
August 23, 2013

Definitely Does Compute – Hackbright Girl Geek Dinner

This summer, Hackbright Academy celebrated our one year anniversary and hosted our fourth Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner. On Wednesday, August 21 at Pivotal Labs’ San […]
August 22, 2013

Hackbright Academy Career Day – Summer 2013 Edition

Hackbright Academy holds for each graduating class of software engineers a “Career Day” – a reverse career fair (companies move one table to the next, with […]
August 15, 2013

More Than Just My Mom

By Lisa Lee (Diversity Program Manager, Facebook) For as long as I can remember, my parents have always worked alongside each other. My parents are small […]
August 14, 2013

SVN vs Git: Which One Is Best For Your Needs?

GIT VS. SVN? Erica Chang, a KIXEYE Quality Engineer and Hackbright Academy graduate blogs about Python programming! Editors note: This is an archive article. For a […]
August 13, 2013

Hackbright Directors Talk to Girls Who Code

Hackbright Academy directors Liz Howard and Angie Chang visited the Girls Who Code class at Twitter’s downtown San Francisco office. The Hackbright Academy directors explained to […]
August 9, 2013

Hackbright Academy Takes a Field Trip to Twitter!

The summer 2013 class of Hackbright Academy visited Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters on Market Street for a field trip and talk with their engineers. Twitter software […]
August 9, 2013

Zendesk Engineers Share Secrets to Success

Over happy hour drinks and snacks, several members of the Zendesk engineering team mingled with Hackbright Academy students during a visit to the Zendesk office in […]
August 7, 2013

Hackbright Academy Takes A Field Trip To Facebook!

The summer 2013 class of Hackbright Academy visited the Menlo Park headquarters of Facebook on Friday! Facebook is a proud partner of Hackbright, having generously sponsoring […]
August 6, 2013

Career Advice from Diverse Engineers at SurveyMonkey

The summer 2013 class of Hackbright Academy visited the Palo Alto headquarters of SurveyMonkey! It was bright and early on Friday morning when the Hackbright students […]
August 6, 2013

Developer Sarah Mei Talks Defensive Programming, Getting Jobs in Programming – and Getting Involved

Sarah Mei, Software Engineer Sarah was most recently at Pivotal Labs in San Francisco for three years, and is now a freelance Ruby / Rails developer. […]
August 6, 2013

Cracking the Coding Interview: Hackbright Students Learn from Author Gayle Laakmann McDowell

We invited “Cracking the Coding Interview” author Gayle Laakmann McDowell to Hackbright Academy this summer to speak to the students about interviewing. Gayle started her career […]
July 31, 2013

Negotiation and Interviewing Advice for Hackbright Students from Poornima Vijayashanker (Femgineer)

We invited Poornima Vijayashanker, founder at Femgineer, to Hackbright Academy to speak to this summer’s class about getting interviews and negotiating. Her talk at Hackbright covered: […]