Two Qwasar students, Connor Cable and Thanh Ngo built a Discord bot to help facilitate student support within the Qwasar community. This independent project is already having positive impacts on the learning community. It’s an excellent example of the independent work Qwasar students engage in during their curriculum, and a testament to the creativity and initiative of Connor and Thanh.

Read on to learn about Squire and how the project came about.

A lack of demand is not fluid across industries. While the recent news of large tech companies making cuts hangs in the air, many industries including insurance, aerospace, banking, green, retail, government, etc. are ramping up their hiring and even struggling to find talent to fill their positions. A few popular companies in the news headlines do not represent the majority. 

We sat down, with Maurice Sharpe, an IT Engineer at IBM and friend of Qwasar's CTO, to learn more about his journey into tech from chemistry.

Recently, we sat down with Brendan Wilhelmsen, a Software Engineer at Workday, to talk about his journey into a career as a Software Engineer and what his day-to-day job looks like. Brendan shares some insights with our learners about how his learning experience at Qwasar helped prepare him for a position with Workday.

We sat down with one of our students, Thanh Ngo, to share more about his journey into technology. We wanted to give you an idea of the depth and breadth of who is in our learning community. This interview is a part of ongoing learner interviews of our Qwasar students.

As layoffs continue and hiring freezes ensue, many recruiters are considering becoming the very talent for which they recruit: software developers, data scientists, or DevOps engineers. While the transferable skills of communication and collaboration are strong for recruiters, the technical skills are often the skills that they’re missing. But, recruiters know this, and they have the benefit of knowing what the desired skills are in great engineer candidates. They also see the other side of the coin and who doesn't receive offers - and thus which skills candidates might be lacking. Training to the desired skill sets of hiring managers and for technical positions in industry is so crucial to fill an opportunity, close any skills gap, and get hired right away.

Qwasar is delighted to announce the launch of our first Women's Cohort, starting mid-September, 2022.

Finding quality female software talent is a well-known challenge in industry: companies often specifically request and ask us for female candidates for their positions. There’s an interest for more female candidates, but there also needs to be opportunities for women to learn and grow their skill set to be ready for software jobs.

Emeritus notes, “As a matter of fact, employment for software developers is projected to grow 22% from 2019 to 2029 (according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). However, the biggest challenge the tech industry faces today is talent acquisition across genders.”

In an effort to increase the number of women and representation of women in the tech workforce, we’re launching a Women’s Cohort in September this year. Led by our co-founder and supported by our entire community, the cohort aims to be a fun, encouraging, and challenging environment for women to develop their skills in software development.