arol.dev

It's been 3 weeks since my graduation. After a little rest I realized how much my life has changed in these 5 months. I can say with confidence that I made the best decision for myself. 

It was an exciting, challenging, inspiring adventure that finally made me fall in love with programming and, I'm sure, captured me for a very long time. 

I’m so happy that I’ve chosen arol.dev. It’s not just a mentorship program (which itself is worth a lot). This place is literally your home for a few months where you are treated as a member of the family. It’s not only about learning programming (and believe me you will learn a lot), it’s also the experience that Arol, Olga and other teachers have in all the different areas of professional life. You will be taught not only how to code, but also a lot of soft skills that will help you in the programming world. 

After finishing the program I’ve been attending a lot of events for students and graduates of different bootcamps and put together a small review for myself with differences between this program and others. In arol.dev you will get: 

24/7 support from Arol and team. And I really mean it. No homework! You only work in the office (office hours) and all the other time from 8pm to 9am next day you dedicate to rest. The office hours are quite tense but at the same time it’s right enough for you to cover all the material and finish all the projects with teacher’s support. From my side I can say that this point is crucial as you will need to have enough good rest to recharge for the next day. A wide range of tech stack from the very basics of programming to deployment. I’ve talked to people asking what they’ve learned in their bootcamps and telling them what I’ve learned. Most people haven’t even heard about Postgres and MongoDB, Docker, Koa, AWS and many other things which we covered with Arol during the course. Office and out of office activities with the team. There are always fruit, snacks and good coffee in the office. 3 times a week we went outside for sport sessions, played funny board games together after big assessments or just to relax. The atmosphere is very important and in here as I already said - you are a part of family and you feel it. It’s perfect experience to be here in the Barcelona office of arol.dev, but at the same time Arol has his own studio for recording lectures/having zooms for live coding sessions with all the best equipment like mic, camera, lights etc so with all these he makes online students feel like they are right here in the office with us. So it’s perfectly fine to be online part time or even all the time because Arol is very professional in what he does and you will get the same experience as if you were in the office.

To sum it up, the course worth it all (both your money and your time) as you will get much more than you invested.

Summary: Remarkable the staff, they make it a unique experience personalized for each individual. The syllabus outstanding compared with the rest of the industry, I promise that you will be ready even for mid positions.

This program is special for several reasons but mainly 2: 

The teachers and stuff, not only will receive detailed support but they will enhance your soft skills, this will be really important after the graduation. I know for friends that other bootcamps treat you like money, this is not the case, totally worth. 

The syllabus is focused not on web dev but software engineer, really important. You study important concepts that will make you shine from other bootcamps students. Algorithms and data structures, testing (real important), system design, automation, typescript + the BE-FE skills.