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2. Introductions
➔ What's your name?
➔ What brought you here today?
➔ What is your programming experience?

3. About
Thinkful
We train web developers and
data scientists through 1x1
mentorship and project-based
learning.
Guaranteed.

4. What
Is
Tech?
Tech isn’t just one industry anymore —
it’s the new business model.
Every company is now a tech company.

5. Tech companies now
dominate all
industries. These are
just a few examples.
All
Completely
Online
Transportation Entertainment
Media Retail

6. ➔ The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a
leading global investment banking firm
➔ Lloyd Blankfein, CEO:“Goldman Sachs is
a tech company.”
➔ 9,000 out of 33,000 employees are on
tech team
Goldman
Sachs

7. The
Good
News

8. VP of Sales
Traditional
Career
Trajectory
Junior Sales
Account Executive
Sales Manager

9. Front-End Developer
Back-End Developer
Full-Stack Developer
QA Developer
Tech
Career
Trajectories
Vary

10. Roles
Vary
Product Manager
QA Engineer
Growth Hacker
Dev Ops
Systems Architect
Front-End Developer
Back-End Developer
Full-Stack Developer
QA Developer
=

11. Front-End Developer
Back-End Developer
Full-Stack Developer
QA Developer
Common
First
Jobs

12. Front
End
Developer

13. Back
End
Developer

14. Full
Stack
Developer

15. QA
Developer

16. Next Step:
Senior
Developer
➔ Ability to estimate your work accurately
➔ Handle challenging problems with less support
➔ Provide support for junior developers

17. ➔ Coding + Product = Product Manager
➔ Coding + Marketing = Growth Hacker
➔ Coding + Sales = Sales Engineer
➔ Coding + Data = Data Scientist
Coding
+
Roles

18. ➔ Learn the skills
➔ Build a portfolio of high quality work
➔ Develop a relevant network
➔ Prep for technical interviews
How to
Get in
the Door?

19. ➔ Find a niche based on your background
➔ Build a personal website
➔ Get your portfolio on GitHub
➔ Try and find contract work
➔ Have professionals guide & review your work
Building
Your
Portfolio

20. ➔ 80% of job openings are never
advertised
➔ 120+ average applicants per
job posted
➔ At Thinkful, roughly 10-12%
of cold applications yield a
phone screen
Networking
the
Right
Way

21. ➔ Cold applications are the least
effective way of landing a job
➔ Figure out what you want (size,
industry, role, etc.)
➔ Reach out to someone that works at a
company
➔ Ask them about their work, genuine
interest, build a relationship
➔ Eventually (1-2 months in), ask for
referral
Networking
the
Right
Way

22. ➔ Tech recruiters serve as your agent
➔ Can leverage their relationships to
arrange interviews
➔ They are incentivized to find you a job
➔ You might get less say in where, but
are helpful
➔ Can be great in getting you feedback
Tech
Recruiters

23. ➔ Phone screen
➔ Take home tech
challenge
➔ In-person interviews
The
Technical
Interview

24. ➔ Prep sites (e.g. Interview Cake)
➔ Books (e.g. Cracking the Coding Interview)
➔ Mock interviews with technical friends
Resources

25. Ways
to
Learn
Code

26. ➔ Free trial of Full Stack Flex
online program
➔ Start with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
➔ Personal Program Manager
➔ Unlimited Q&A Sessions
➔ Student Slack Community
➔ bit.ly/freetrial-webdev
Thinkful
Two-Week
Free
Trial

27. ➔ bit.ly/tf-event-feedback
Survey

28. The
Student
Experience
Jeff Connelly, Thinkful Graduate
Portfolio
Shay Kennedy, Thinkful Graduate
Capstone
Shari Hobbs, Thinkful Graduate
Capstone
Evan Thompson, Thinkful Graduate
Capstone