Preparing for a career in a technical field? Check out these interview tips — including advice on building a portfolio and showcasing your skills.

Interview Prep

In today’s competitive job market, it’s more important than ever to ace your interview. The good news is that it’s a skill you can learn — and our new AI-powered Interview Simulator helps you do just that. https://www.codecademy.com/interview-simulator?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social

Answer questions based on your experience and interview scenario, then receive personalized feedback so you can build the skills to face any interview with confidence.

Here's how it works:

Build your interview 🛠️
Customize your scenario based on your experience and the job you want. 

Prep for the real thing 🚀
AI will ask tailored questions. Speak (or type) responses — just like a real interview. 

See how to improve 💡
Get personalized feedback on what went well and what to focus on next time.

Practice whenever you need it ⏰
Codcademy Pro members get 5 practice interviews a day.

Try it for yourself here: https://www.codecademy.com/interview-simulator?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social

More interviewing resources:
Everything you need to prepare for your next job interview: https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/mock-interview-ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social
How to answer the interview question “Tell me about yourself”: https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/tell-me-about-yourself-interview-question/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social
10 interview tips that helped Codecademy learners land tech jobs: https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/job-interview-tips-from-codecademy-learners/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social

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How to Use Our AI-Powered Interview Simulator

Join us on this episode of Codecademy Community Live as Community Coordinator Fede invites a panel of experts to demystify technical interviews. Staff engineer Josh Goldberg, Engineering Manager Rebecca Borison and senior technical recruiter Will Rhudy will answer all your questions about technical interviews.

Stick around for a Q&A session at the end of the interview.

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Learn About the Technical Interview

With technical interviews, practice makes perfect. So we’ve curated real code challenges from actual interviews, so you can see how your skills stack up.

In this livestream, we’ll be showing you how you can test your knowledge with our code challenges that are based on real-world technical interviews. With these challenges, you can prepare for your job search — or practice just for fun.

If you get stuck, we’ll recommend the right courses to help you pass.

Want to try code challenges for yourself? Check them out here: https://j.mp/3qtPZPt

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Getting Career Ready with Code Challenges

Codecademy Community Live brings you another exciting episode with tech recruiters Will Rhudy, Harmeet Parmar, and Victoria Majcher. Combined, these three Codecademy recruiters bring years of experience in recruiting top talent for tech companies.

This live discussion will focus on sharing all the secrets and tricks of finding jobs in tech. We will also have a Q&A session to take all your questions live during the event!

Live Discussion: How To Get Jobs in Tech

Looking for a new job means building a portfolio and your experience. With Codecademy’s new workspaces feature, you can practice and then build/share projects in a familiar development environment — all without leaving your browser. 

Not sure how to get started? In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use workspace to level up your learning, practice, and application — and ultimately be ready for your next dream job.

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Getting career-ready with Workspace

On this episode of our series on getting hired as a Developer, Community Coordinator Fede sits down with Will, a Senior Technical Recruiter at Codecademy.

Will Rhudy is a Senior Technical Recruiter with Codecademy. He has been recruiting Software Engineers for the last 4 years with an emphasis on back-end, full-stack, and cloud infrastructure roles. 

Prior to recruiting, Will worked in research for a management consulting firm and has spent the last 7 years utilizing LinkedIn as his primary research tool. He’s excited to talk about what he looks for in profiles and how you can best highlight your experience to stand out to recruiters like him.

There will be a Q&A at the end!

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Make your LinkedIn profile stand out with Will Rhudy

On this episode of our series on getting hired as a Developer, Community Coordinator Fede sits down with Jack, a Business Recruiter at Codecademy. 

Jack is a Business Recruiter at Codecademy — where he helps hire for all our non-technical roles. He's worked across a variety of recruiting teams, company sizes, and roles in his past. He is known for his upbeat energy and sense of humor. There will be a Q&A at the end!

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Find the right fit in tech with Jack Kryznefski

On this episode of our series on getting hired as a Developer, Community Coordinator Fede sits down with Jovanay, an Associate Recruiter at Codecademy.

Jovanay Carter is an Associate Recruiter with Codecademy with experience working on curriculum development, marketing, design, and talent roles at Codecademy. Jovanay is also a former co-leader of Codecademy's Ladycademy, an employee resource group geared towards building community and advocacy for womxn in Codecademy. Jovanay is passionate about increasing number of women, people of color, and non-gender conforming leadership in tech.

There will be a Q&A at the end!

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Tips to make your developer resume better with Jovanay Carter

On this episode of our series on getting hired as a Developer, Community Coordinator Fede sits down with Madison, a Recruiting Manager at Codecademy. 

Madison is the Manager of Technical Recruiting at Codecademy — where she leads a team responsible for hiring all of Codecademy's technical roles. Prior to Codecademy, she worked in both Recruiting and People Ops across companies in the tech, media, and advertising spaces. There will be a Q&A at the end!

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What recruiters look for at tech companies with Madison Olson

In the second episode of our series on getting hired as a developer, Community Coordinator Fede will sit down with Harlan, a Technical Recruiter at Codecademy. They’ll discuss resumes, interview prep, and making hiring more equitable. They'll also take questions from the audience at the end.

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Upgrade your next technical interview with Harlan Ginsburg

In the first episode of our series on getting hired as a developer, Community Coordinator Fede will sit down with Harmeet, a Senior Technical Recruiter at Codecademy. They’ll discuss resumes, interview prep, making hiring more equitable, and take questions from the audience.

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Tips to ace your next interview with Codecademy Harmeet Parmar

Welcome to Learn From Home Day: Interviewing From Home!
The Codecademy team offers advice for interviewing from home, featuring job hunting tips and the best practices for working from home.

We have 4 different segments for you today!

1. Preparing to find a job online with Madison and Mia
2. Best practices for interviewing online with Jeff and Emma
3. Starting a new job online with Kerri and Maria, our HR team
4. What WFH looks like in real life—a panel of Codecademy learners who, after learning with Codecademy, landed jobs that they totally love, and work remotely in! That’s with Crystal, Ann, Pablo, and Tatiana

Questions: recruiting@codecademy.com 

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How to interview from home

For anyone learning to code, whether you're trying to switch careers or something else, there will come a point where you want to impress an employer, or to show to the world (and yourself!) what you can do. In this video, we'll tell you how to go about that. 

We'll cover:
• Inspiration and guidance for making a portfolio site
• Marketing yourself on LinkedIn
• Hosting with GitHub and more
• More advanced hosting options for complex projects in React, Node, Rails, etc.

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More details:
How to build a portfolio: https://youtu.be/JvSoDiLwKBI
What wireframing is and how to use it: https://youtu.be/CbIMO5EcCD8
Figma for wireframing  https://www.figma.com/
Design inspiration: https://dribbble.com/ https://www.awwwards.com/

Advanced hosting options:
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https://www.netlify.com/
https://zeit.co/
https://www.heroku.com/
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https://aws.amazon.com/free/
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Hosting & showcasing your coding skills

Coding is a team sport, and is rarely solo work! You might be wondering how to work on a dev team? Codecademy Team Member Matt has ten quick tips for how to work with other people on coding projects.

Want to put this all into practice but haven't got a dev job yet? Start a group project with your fellow learners! Here's how: https://youtu.be/Lnm3CVeLo7g

Learn more about developers and the developmental process:
- Learn about the development cycle: https://youtu.be/hpn8MPHOpDo
- Learn about Waterfall: https://youtu.be/xtRubl7kQeI
- Learn about Agile: https://youtu.be/GzzkpAOxHXs
- Learn about Scrum: https://youtu.be/tNFIpNvyXPw
- Learn about Kanban: https://youtu.be/xhxncRy-_Rk
- How to review someone else's code: https://youtu.be/TlXy_i27N3w
- What is Legacy Code: https://youtu.be/JpSqiVHnzPw
- What is a Code Base: https://youtu.be/7xaGRxiN75o

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10 tips for working on a dev team

Portfolios are a great way to market your skills and show prospective employers that you're an active learner improving your craft! In this video, Farish shows us what to put in a portfolio, how to think about hosting a portfolio, and the importance of keeping it updated!

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How to build a portfolio

Despite its notoriously polarizing reputation, whiteboarding remains a fixture in the tech interview process. In this video, Farish gives us a peek behind the curtain to better understand what whiteboarding is, how the process works, and how to feel confident going through it. 

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What is whiteboarding?

The mythology around programming is overblown! In this video, Pat DePuydt deconstructs some important misconceptions around how an effective programmer operates and will help distinguish myth from reality.  

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What makes an effective programmer?

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How to get a job as a developer

Explore the technical interview by dissecting a real interview question. We’ll talk through how to approach problems in an interview, discuss strategies to help you through tough situations, and code out a solution to an actual interview problem.

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Livestream: Technical interview prep

Providing effective feedback can be challenging. Reviewing someone else’s code can be even more so, because writing code is a creative and personal endeavor—respecting that process is important. In this video, Mike Dane shares five steps to make sure you master the art of a code review.

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