Hackbright Career Development

Career transitions can be scary, but also exciting. The Careers Team will work with you to ensure you have a toolbox filled with the skills and confidence you need to get the job you want upon completing the Fellowship. We’ll help you execute a successful job search while also planning for your long term career development in the industry. We look forward to working with you to help you get where you want to be, from organizing your job search to negotiating your first offer.

Tailored To You

Personalized job search planning and goal setting

Top Industry Connections

Connections to the best tech companies with engineering teams ready to hire

Unparalleled Community

Support from staff and alumnae as you embark on your new career.

Career Development Curriculum

Week 1: Introduction – Your Roadmap to Success
Week 2: Telling Your Story & Working with Mentors
Week 3: Tech Companies, VCs & Funding
Week 4: Career Transition & Your Personal Brand
Week 5: Resumes & Cover Letters
Week 6: Resumes & Cover Letters Continued
Week 7: Interviewing
Week 8: Organizing Your Job Search
Week 9: Career Interview Preparation
Week 10: Career Development Kick Off & Demo Night
Weeks 11-12: Career Development Workshops, Mentor Meetings, Mock Interviews & Whiteboarding

Career Services helped me navigate my job search from applications to offers, all in a matter of weeks. It was a huge help to have people rooting for me, ready and willing to answer my questions and provide personalized advice every step of the way. Not only that, Hackbright connected me to a community of supportive people who continue to help me grow in my new career.

Sara FalkoffFront End Developer at Keen IO

Hackbright Career Services was the extra bonus I didn’t even realize I really needed.

Janet KenmotsuSoftware Engineer at Calthrope

Weeks 11 & 12: Intense Career Development

As soon as you complete week 10, the curriculum shifts to 2 intense career development focused weeks. Fellows receive salary and negotiation, equity, and career development workshops, technical interview preparation, whiteboarding practice, mock interviewing, and more. We also offer field trips to tech companies and employer meet and greets during these two weeks.

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Alumnae Discuss Becoming a Software Engineer at Hackbright!

Hackbright’s a wonderful place where you are with a group of people that coming out after 10 weeks are going to spread in many different companies. You now are going to have a wealth of contacts in the best companies in the valley.

Cheryl AinoaSVP Product Development

Alumnae Career Development Offerings

Quarterly Alumnae Mixers with Companies – Ongoing opportunities every three months to connect with companies looking to expand their engineering teams. Whether you’re looking for a new job or simply looking to expand your network, these valuable mixers will help you improve your career opportunities.
Professional Growth Events – Monthly events for our Hackbright alumnae focused on professional development to learn business skills in addition to coding. Sample topics include salary negotiations, how to detect female friendly environment, preparing for whiteboarding interviews, etc.
Career Development – Access to job-focused email exclusively to alumnae with job listings, upcoming conferences and meetups, career development tips, resourceful articles and blog entries about trends in technology and diversity. Alumnae also have access to private career counseling appointments.

Maggie Shine, Eventbrite Software Engineer

Maggie Shine is a software engineer at Eventbrite. Before becoming an engineering fellow at Hackbright Academy, Maggie worked at Chevron and had taught English in Korea. Maggie graduated from the Hackbright engineering fellowship class of Summer 2014.

Emily Manders, Prezi Full Stack Developer

Emily Manders is a full stack web developer at Prezi. Before attending Hackbright, she worked in software project management, user experience design, and user research. Emily graduated from the Hackbright engineering fellowship class of Summer 2014.

Melissa Skevington, Lumosity Software Engineer

Melissa Skevington is a software engineer at Lumosity. In February 2012, Melissa became the first female support engineer at Dropbox. After learning the product inside and out, she decided to continue learning to code in order to have a bigger impact on a product. Hackbright engineering fellowship class of Summer 2013.

Victoria de Winter, Indeed Software Engineer

Victoria de Winter is a software engineer at Indeed. Because she enjoyed scripting and recognized how powerful a tool it coud be, she then decided to apply to Hackbright. She holds an undergraduate degree in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago. Victoria graduated from the Hackbright engineering fellowship class of Summer 2014.

I now have this network of professional women who are already established in their careers that I can reach out to ask questions, ask for advice, or mentorship.

Meghan HadeSoftware Engineer at Mapzen & Alumna at Hackbright Engineering Fellowship (Summer 2014)