September 16, 2013
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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: […]