Curriculum
Name two programming languages taught in the bootcamp.
Python, SQL, Solidity
List three soft skills that fintech employers may look for.
Attention to detail, communication, organization, etc.
What are the ER requirements for fintech?
resume, GitHub, LinkedIn
What is one behavioral interview question that you could ask a student in a mock interview?
Why are you interest in our company? What got you into fintech?
What does AWS stand for?
Amazon Web Services (Students use Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Lex, Amazon s3, AWS Lambda)
What hosting service do students use to store their code?
GitHub
Name three fintech companies.
Robinhood, Coinbase, Stripe, etc.
How many commits should be in each repository on GitHub?
At least 5
Name two types of technical interviews.
whiteboard, online technical assessment, live technical interview
What does API stand for?
Application programming interface
Name three Python libraries that students learn.
Pandas, Scikit-learn, mathplotlib, numpy, etc.
What does a Solidity Developer do?
Uses the object-oriented Solidity language to build and deploy smart contracts on ethereum based applications.
Name three things a students can do to become employer competitive.
Name one website that students can use to practice technical interviews.
HackerRank, CodeSignal, Leetcode, etc.
Give an examples of machine learning.
speech recognition, predictive analysis, image recognition, product recommendation, etc.
Name two technologies that students use for machine learning.
Python, Tensorflow, scikit-learn, AWS
What percent of fintech students are Upskillers?
30%
python, pandas, machine learning, SQL, etc.
What is the name of the workshop that teach students about online technical assessments?
Breaking Down the Online Technical Assessment.
Name two non-relational databases.
MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Dynamo
What does open-source mean? Why is that helpful for you as a Career Coach?
Open-source means it is technology that is free to access and use. As a Career Coach you can point this out when students are unfamiliar with open-source technologies that appear in job descriptions.
Should a career-starter apply to a Quantitative Analyst role?
Probably not. Quants usually deal with complex mathematics and have a masters degree.
Code that is easy to read, write, and maintain. Good use of blank space, indentation, and pseudocode.
What are two technical questions that you could ask a student during a mock interview?
What are the three components of neural networks? How do you assess the risk of a project? Tell me about a time that you worked with SQL.
Name three dapps.
Uniswap, OpenSea, Aave, Decentraland, etc.