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Antonio David\u2014or Ajay, as he likes to be called\u2014had his life all planned out: undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, law school at George Washington University, then passing the bar exam and landing at a top law firm job.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou go for the pretty standard thing and work at a big corporate law firm,\u201d David says, a native of Maryland.<\/p>\n

After three years, David liked his colleagues but was unsatisfied with the job itself. He snuck in one coding class, then another. Finally he decided it was time to say goodbye to the legal world and enrolled at Flatiron School.<\/p>\n

His wife received a job offer in Atlanta, so they took a leap of faith and moved south. David\u2019s coding skills he learned at Flatiron School<\/a> helped him land his own job as a developer.<\/p>\n

Based in New York, Flatiron School has already helped thousands of students start careers in technology through its online and in-person classes. The company is expanding on its mission with the launch of a new campus in Atlanta<\/a> located at WeWork Colony Square<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the fifth new Flatiron School location since the Manhattan-based coding academy was acquired last year by WeWork. The others are in Houston, London, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Classes, which begin on Sept. 17, include the school\u2019s signature 15-week software engineering immersive<\/a>, along with part-time classes on topics such as introduction to data science and front-end web development.<\/p>\n

Noam Mintz, director of expansion at Flatiron School, says Atlanta is the coding academy\u2019s ideal next location.<\/p>\n

\u201cAtlanta has become a hotbed urban destination for millennials in the southeast,\u201d said Mintz. \u201cThe city is growing, the millennial population is growing, and the number of jobseekers is also growing.\u201d<\/p>\n

David says his the knowledge of Ruby on Rails and JavaScript he got from Flatiron School made him feel at home in his new company.<\/p>\n

\u201cAtlanta has a budding and growing tech community where a lot of people are excited to start their companies in the city,\u201d David said. \u201cI had an opportunity to grow and didn\u2019t feel out of place even in a developer role.\u201d<\/p>\n

David says the community in Atlanta is great for anyone just starting out in the tech field.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tight-knit designer and developer community,\u201d says David. \u201cEverybody tends to know each other. If you\u2019re just starting out, so is the tech community.\u201d<\/p>\n

David recently started a new job at a larger startup that opened a new Atlanta office. It\u2019s a small team\u2014especially compared to the company\u2019s offices in San Francisco and Paris\u2014but it\u2019s the perfect size for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do feel like I got a seat on a rocket ship with the Atlanta office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1820,"featured_media":3000000111,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"news_tag":[43929],"class_list":["post-3000000110","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFlatiron School opens in growing tech hub of Atlanta - WeWork Newsroom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/newsroom-landing-page\/flatiron-school-opens-in-growing-tech-hub-of-atlanta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flatiron School opens in growing tech hub of Atlanta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lawyer-turned-developer says program gave him an \u2018opportunity to grow\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/newsroom-landing-page\/flatiron-school-opens-in-growing-tech-hub-of-atlanta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-12-12T15:17:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/Flatiron_School_1.jpg?fit=1024%2C683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/newsroom-landing-page\/flatiron-school-opens-in-growing-tech-hub-of-atlanta\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/newsroom-landing-page\/flatiron-school-opens-in-growing-tech-hub-of-atlanta\",\"name\":\"Flatiron School opens in growing tech hub of Atlanta - 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