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Coding academies are flourishing, but are their graduates getting hired? Thanks to coding academies the developer workforce is seeing some much-needed growth, but many employers need a bit of persuasion to consider hiring a bootcamp grad. In this post, I’ll explain why coding academy grads have many strengths which can make them great hires. Up-to-date skills Job applicants who’ve learned the ropes through a coding academy, bootcamp or online course lack experience, theoretical comp-sci knowledge, and can be unadaptable. These are the common complaints from employers, and there’s no denying some truth to these observations. I studied Electrical Engineering at…

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