Thinkful Graduate who became a Software Engineer at BlackRock

Matthew Mbonu is the guest on Career Karma's Weekly 'Ask Me Anything' call with our community.

On this call, Matt covers what he did to go from working in marketing to learning how to code and getting a Front-end Developer job at BlackRock.

He's coding bootcamp journey sounds easy since he found a job before he even graduated, but he also covers the free resources he used to teach himself how to code before he started.

On this call Matt discusses these topics:

-He mentions how much he is getting paid as a software engineer in Atlanta straight out of a bootcamp

-He talks about Living Stipends that Thinkful offers to their students where you're getting paid $1500 for 5 months while you're learning to be a software engineer

-What he did in the job search from creating his projects, sending out his resume and preparing for coding interviews.

This is an action and strategy packed interview and you should definitely watch the whole thing if you're looking to break into tech.

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