![]() ![]() It would make grads much more competitive in the job search. For an “Elite program” I would have expected to learn at least one additional language, maybe a back end one such as Python or Java. And a lot of veteran programmers, however wrong they might be, regard it as a lesser language. There are too many bootcamp grads nowadays, people want you to know more than one paradigm. They have squeezed the actual technical teaching time to the first 6 weeks. You’ll receive endless lectures on how to find a job and how to present yourself. The third month you’ll work on your thesis project with a team chosen for you. You would expect more for the price you’re paying. With wireless peripherals that keep breaking all the while you’re trying to hack your way through the curriculum. ![]() Mind you, the first 6 weeks (instructional weeks) you have to use 4 years old mac mini, plugged in to a shamefully slow internet. They do not know best practices that comes with real work experience, that they don’t have. They offer certain students to work part time as instructional help for 3 month after they graduated. The students assigned to help during the sprints have graduated just before you started. To resume: You’re getting an hour long lecture, after which you have two days to work on the new topic, after which you get a 1h long video of the instructor explaining how he would have solved the assignment. After a 2 day sprint you see a rushed video you’re supposed to learn from, if you need help during the sprints you get in queue to get help from a recent graduate who himself barely knows the material to help you. ![]() The material is divided in “sprints”, you have to understand and remember the topic in 2 days, hacking through it, while paired with another student. The second 6 weeks you’re basically learning on your own. After which lectures are every other day, 1 hour long each, for the first 6 weeks. Ironically the number of lectures drops dramatically after the first week. They offer you to drop out within the first week with a refund, minus the $2K+ deposit you paid. The first week is here to set your expectations, they have hours of lectures specifically on what to expect for the next 11 weeks. The “Elite” program generates a cool $3.56M every 3 month. In this article I’ll review the curriculum of the bootcamp and the reality graduates are facing. A quick reminder: Hack Reactor was created in late 2012 by DevBootcamp grads. ![]()
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