Meet Oliver 👋. Olli was leading a team of 5 as the head of IT for a medium-sized company in Hamburg. Recently, he decided to go his own way, and took our Data Science course in order to overcome some of …

4 Data Science grads in Berlin have been involved with O’Reilly Media in the German translations of 3 key books. We’re super proud! Read on for more info on the books 👇. Generatives Deep Learning (Marcus Fraaß, Konstantin Mack, our …

Meet Sam 👋. He studied Mechanical Engineering and is working as an R&D engineer in the field of radar sensor development. He considered himself an advanced Python user before studying at Spiced – but wanted to bring his programming skills …

Meet Ross 👋. After working as an energy engineer, Ross decided to quit his job and go traveling for a year. Before he knew it, one year traveling turned into 4 and he started a job in Customer Success. That’s where …

Meet Andi, who took our 12-week, intensive Coding Bootcamp in Stuttgart. He works as a Consultant and Team Lead at the KI Group, and took a break to attend Spiced. Here he tells us all about why he chose Web Development, and how he’s …

Meet Kayla, from the US. She became a Spicedling 🖖 over 3 years ago. She’s now working as a Front End Web Developer, where she gets to work heavily with design and UX. Here she tells us all about why she chose …

Meet Nenad, who took our 12-week, intensive Data Science Bootcamp in Cologne. He works in the Financial Services industry in Dusseldorf, but took a break to attend Spiced. Here he tells us all about why he chose Data Science, and …

Lina graduated from Spiced a couple of years ago, and is one of almost 1000 Spicedlings enjoying a fast-growing career in Berlin’s tech scene. Initially, she was skeptical about learning to code as she didn’t think she had a “scientific …

Due to the global public health situation relating to COVID-19, a lot of the planet, Spiced staff and students included, are currently working and learning remotely. Being at home for such an extended period of time can come with some challenges, …

  Friends of Spiced, These are unprecedented and uncertain times, and our individual and collective efforts matter a great deal. At the moment, the best advice for all of us is to stay at home and reduce the risk of …

Like hundreds of other 🖖 Spicedlings, Parinaz took the leap from Project Management to Full Stack Web Developer. She’s now working at global tech giant eBay, where she gets to work on her own cool projects, travel to conferences, and …

Giovanni graduated from Spiced in July, 2017, and upon graduation moved to Hamburg to take a job as a Full Stack Web Developer. In 2020, he decided to move his family back to Berlin, where he continues his career. Here …

Before SPICED Before SPICED I was living in Essen, a town in west Germany. I had a decent job, a good salary, a great relationship with my girlfriend, and great friends at home and in Germany. On the surface, everything …

Before joining SPICED, Kent had just finished up a graduate program at Princeton having worked for five years in finance and economic research. Here on the blog, he tells us all about his decision to learn Data Science, and his …

Lisa grew up in Eastern Ukraine before moving to Germany. At university in Leipzig, she studied Neuroscience for several years before making a change. We spoke to her about why she decided to make the leap from academia to full stack web …

As one half of techno outfit Brothers Black, Jamie was making waves in Berlin’s electronic music scene when he decided to balance his music career with a coding bootcamp. Here we caught up with him to discuss his experience learning at …

Having graduated from SPICED, Lillian is currently working as a Data Science Consultant here in Berlin. We spoke to her to find out more about what brought her to Berlin, and what she learned from her experience at SPICED. When was it …

We’re thrilled to find out that we were voted one of Europe’s top coding bootcamps by She Can Code! Coding bootcamps in Europe are becoming increasingly popular, giving students more choice than ever when deciding which coding bootcamp to attend. That …

Marco joined SPICED in 2018 and, since graduating, has moved back to his adopted country of Finland to take a job as a Full Stack Web Developer at Uplause. Here he tells us about how he went from the world …

Last week a group of SPICED graduates from our Data Science and Full Stack Web Development courses emerged victorious in a Hackathon organized by N3XTCODERS and Goethe Institut, Berlin. Here they tell us all about the event, and how they ended up …

Zeina came to Germany from Syria as a refugee in July, 2015. Here she talks to SPICED about her journey from arriving in Germany to becoming a Full Stack Web Developer. How did you feel arriving in Germany? Settling in was …

In November 2018, our Data Science cohort Tensor Thyme visited Mobius Labs. The project manager and two engineers took a lot of time to present the company and answer our questions. Here are our main takeaways: What does Mobius Labs …

Course Report sat down with our alumni, Mike Smith, to discuss life in Berlin, working at SoundCloud and much more. While most people join coding bootcamps in order to improve their salary, Mike was actually a banker in London before joining …

Coding bootcamps in Europe are becoming increasingly popular, giving students more choice than ever when deciding which coding bootcamp to attend. The increase bootcamps is in part due to the increasing demand for tech talent in the European market; in Germany, …

Without doubt the best thing about working at SPICED is being a part of our students’ journeys, and seeing them grow from beginner developers to being capable of some pretty amazing things. Wlad graduated from SPICED recently and is currently searching for …

With the shadow of No Deal looming large over the immediate future of Britain, what does the future hold for the young and ambitious? For many, it means it’s time to say goodbye to Blighty. In March 2019 a report from the …

One of the best things about studying at SPICED Academy is its location, Berlin. There’s something for everyone in this big, beautiful city.  To tell us all about it, we recently had Berta Luise Heide from Walk This Way come …

We’re end our career development series today with CV writing for developers, one of our favorite topics! We’ve already covered self-exploration, learned how to effectively answer the “tell me about yourself” question and looked at a strategy to effectively structure …

In today’s fast-paced working environment it’s becoming increasingly common to change careers, both through necessity and the desire to seek something more rewarding. That’s why we started SPICED Academy in the first place: we saw that there was an increasing …

Welcome back to our career development series! So far, we have spent a bit of time on self-exploration and learned how to effectively answer the “tell me about yourself” question. Next, we turn our focus to the job search. What …