Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 27, 2014 @09:40AM from the building-a-strong-base-of-coders dept.

redletterdave writes: According to a blog post from Gregg Pollack, CEO of the Code School, Google is paying for three free months for any women and minorities interested in tech to expand their skills. The offer is part of Google's $50 million "Made With Code" initiative, which aims to help close the gender gap in tech. While Google is also offering the same vouchers to the women in attendance at its annual I/O developers conference this week, the search giant has released an online application that's available to women everywhere. Google says its available vouchers for women number in the "thousands."

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You still won't get a job in my field by CQDX · 2014-06-27 10:25 · Score: 1, Flamebait

If you are woman or minority that got into tech through Codeschool and the like, you won't be working in my shop. We only hire people with real CS and engineering degrees that have done their time learning more than the web language|framework flavor or the month.