Andrea was working as Project Manager for DEPT, an ecommerce company. He was supposed to coordinate a team of programmers, but he found himself constantly hamstrung by one unfortunate fact: he knew nothing about web development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018It was not the first time either,\u2019 says Andrea today. \u2018I\u2019d studied International Business at the HTW technical school in Berlin, and I was beginning to develop a career as project manager. I worked for N26, for Audible, for TaxFix and for Dept. But I didn\u2019t know the first thing about programming, and this was a wall I kept coming up against, again and again.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conscious that something had to change, Andrea wanted to upskill \u2013 but the precise how<\/em> was something he wasn\u2019t quite sure about. \u2018I didn\u2019t just want any random course. I told myself that it had to be something that worked well with my existing background, that would offer me future-proof skills, and that would help me find more work.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n He wondered for a long time about what to do, and he remembered an episode from his previous company. \u2018They needed someone to do UI, and they hired this girl whose only qualification was that she had completed a bootcamp in the field. I really thought, wow<\/em>. You can seriously do a tech bootcamp and find a job right away.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrea remembered how clueless he felt during his calls with programmers. And he decided it was time to change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018I did weeks, months of research before choosing my bootcamp,\u2019 he remembers. \u2018I would fill in spreadsheets to compare all of their features, I would take these long walks through Hasenheide while reflecting on the question.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the end Andrea went for a WBS CODING SCHOOL Full-Stack Web & App Development Bootcamp. \u2018Other bootcamps were 8-9 weeks long, but I liked that this one was longer and went into greater depth. Plus I checked the reviews, and they were excellent. I decided to take the plunge.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n And so, in December of 2023, Andrea first sat down with an online class filled with people both like and unlike him, and found himself writing the first lines of software in his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018I was immediately hooked by the design side of web development,\u2019 he recalls with a smile. \u2018I also naturally shifted back into my project management habits: when they split us into teams, I found myself taking everyone under my wing, assigning tasks, making plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018The onsite campus phase at the end of the bootcamp was the best part, but also the most gruelling. Not that the instructors asked or expected us to work any overtime, naturally, but my team and I got so involved in our final project that we ended up working on it non-stop. I remember we were together in that campus workspace often until past midnight.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n None of this hard work tainted the memory of the bootcamp for Andrea \u2013 to the contrary. \u2018The bootcamp experience was just fantastic, so much better than I could ever have imagined! It was super fun from the beginning until the end, I learned an insane amount of new things, it opened so many doors for me professionally, and I even met a bunch of really cool people!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like the UI girl he had seen such a long time ago, Andrea now emerged from the bootcamp and started working right away. \u2018I already had two job offers before the bootcamp was even over. One of the jobs I\u2019d found myself by searching for it while studying. The other one, I didn\u2019t even have to look. I was contacted by a headhunter who found my profile on LinkedIn.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many who take a coding bootcamp do so to change careers, but Andrea\u2019s plan from the beginning was to upskill in his field. Today he is once again doing project management for an agency called Latori and he is still very closely involved with programmers, but he has come a long, long way from those clueless phone calls of old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018The bootcamp didn\u2019t just open the doors of software-related project management,\u2019 he says. \u2018I now have a better feeling in general, I know what my programmers are doing, I can follow the logic of what they\u2019re saying, I know how long tasks will take and how to organise them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018And of course, I know how to do programming myself. If I want to, I can get my hands dirty and do the web development work in person. The bootcamp didn\u2019t just teach me how to write code, it also taught me how to research and learn new things in the tech field.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n None of that, however, means that Andrea\u2019s journey is over. \u2018You never really stop learning,\u2019 he says, with satisfaction in his eyes. \u2018I know that the things I learned will yield yet more opportunities in the future, that they will take me to new places yet. But for now, I am a better project manager than I was before. 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