These students, from radically different backgrounds, earned their way here and have proven they belong here. companies are desperately trying to fill the talent gap by importing talent from abroad (Last year alone, the federal government received 233,000 application for H1-B working visas) when we are finding amazing talent right here. “We are trying to fix this problem,” said Julien Barbier, co-founder and CEO of Holberton. jobs coming within the next decade and only 400,000 trained people to fill them,” leaving one million highly paid jobs with no one to fill them.

The school’s overall student body is now more than 200, with new students added 3 times a year.Īccording to Megan Smith, chief technology officer of the United States and former Google executive, “there’s going to be 1.4 million tech and I.T. At that time, Holberton will graduate more qualified full-stack software engineers annually than Stanford and Harvard combined. Launched in 2016, the school’s population has exploded 6 fold in just under two years and recently moved into a new location that can eventually accommodate 1,000 students. SAN FRANCISCO, J(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Today the Holberton School, a two-year higher education school for software engineers, announced the graduation of its inaugural class, with students already working for some top companies including Apple, CreditKarma, Docker, Dropbox, IBM and Scality.

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