On July 28, 2022, Sparkbox led an event to help you find your way as a Product Champion! In this online event, we shared how to avoid blockers, gather resources, and lead your products to success. Grab all the details on the Sparkbox apprenticeship site and get your application in before April 1!Īpply for Sparkbox’s Next Full-Stack Apprenticeship If you think you’d be a great fit for our remote full-stack apprenticeship, we encourage you to apply.
Each remote apprentice will be expected to be available and ready to engage during the hours of 9am–5pm Eastern, Monday through Friday for the full duration of the apprenticeship (July through December). Our full-stack apprenticeship is a fully remote learning experience. On our apprenticeship application, you’ll share how you can bring a diverse perspective to the apprenticeship. Sparkbox has been working to build a team where we acknowledge our own faults, make all feel welcome, and humbly help each other grow. The past few years have taught us that we can always do more to create an inclusive environment-both in our industry and on our team. In this apprenticeship, learning will be mutual-you’ll see that we learn as much from you as you do from us. For six months, we’ll give you guidance to dive deep, and we expect you to be ready to soak it all in. We’re going to challenge you and your current understanding of the web. In this role, you must be open to constructive criticism. To be successful in a career on the web, you have to be continually learning-you have to be hungry for knowledge. The folks who make it to the final round of our apprenticeship application process all have a tremendous hunger to learn, and they back it up with their own experimentation. Here are some core values we look for: Hunger What We’re Looking forĮach year, we’re asked to describe what it takes to be a successful Sparkbox apprentice. With new confidence, you’ll have some work under your belt-and that’s when the real fun begins.
You’ll be exposed to our Github-centric project management, deployment processes, best practices for clean code and separation of concerns, and unit testing techniques.īy the end of your apprenticeship, you’ll be interacting as a full-fledged developer. In the first months of your apprenticeship, you’ll learn Sparkbox’s convictions on priority of content, value of design, semantic HTML, and mobile-first CSS.
May 5, 2022: Final candidates selected and notified.April 1, 2022: Last day to apply (applications are due by or before midnight Eastern).
We offer paid apprenticeships because we love what we do, we want to share with new talent, and we genuinely care about the future of the web.Īnnouncing Sparkbox’s next Full-Stack Developer Apprenticeship Schedule: I proceeded to learn the ropes on the job.We value education. When I did my electrical apprenticeship, I spent around $2k to take a 24 week pre apprenticeship course and then got a job offer at a basement rate. I would even volunteer like 12-16 hours per week with a real team to do simple repetitive tasks just to get hands on experience, ask questions, and get direction (do simple repetitive tasks exist for devs? Don't they just automate them?). I know that I would smash it out of the park if I could find some sort of dev apprenticeship. I can't imagine tackling a project for a portfolio to land a job. I'm just not very good at self learning or studying in a classroom. I don't have much trouble quickly getting the basics, really enjoy solving the problems, thinking hyper logically, and learning the languages. I've done a few months of Java MOOC.fi and a few weeks of TOP. I'm a well rounded tradesperson and pick up skills very quickly.
I've successfully done two apprenticeships, construction electrical and automotive.