“there's this company called General Assembly in New York and they do like they've done really good technology education for a long time.”
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“prior to jellyfish Jen was an Enterprise sales director at the Muse and at general assembly”
“then I recommend these resources so there is something called Career fundry which is a fantastic online coding school general assembly and then coding Dojo”
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