Assembler Institute of Technology

All lies, poor material, and lack of teaching. The only reason you see good rating here is because they don't get you a job if you are not cooperative with them.
I got there in 2020 and they still use the same inmoral and unethic practices. It's 12K€ that you should not spend here unless you are ready to be submissive and obliging to get a job. I had the most experience in programming among others and helped classmates as much as I could, but they didn't get me nothing because I was not submissive.

¿Estas buscando realizar un bootcamp en Barcelona o remoto?
En Assembler te ofrecen mas de 1200 horas de trabajos grupales como individuales, simulando entornos de trabajo de reales. Además de un acompañamiento de un staff muy calido y que siempre estaran para darte una mano.
Una experiencia unica donde no solo te llevas conocimientos, sino amigos, risas y un cambio de 180 en tu vida profesional.
Los 7 meses que dura el master son suficientes para poder adquirir y asimilar correctamente los conocimientos basicos, además de aprendar a como incorporar nuevas tecnologías, leer documentación, estructurar proyectos para que sean escalables y superar el miedo a lo desconocido en el mundo tech.

El cierre de un capítulo en tu vida siempre es algo que debes celebrar. Hoy puedo decir que después de 7 meses intensivos, más de 40 proyectos reales y 1200 horas a la espalda finaliza mi experiencia en el máster con Assembler Institute of Technology.
Han sabido sacar lo mejor de mí, desde el departamento de Admissions a CareerHub y sobre todo a los Tech Leads de convertirme en #fullstackdeveloper como Manuel Andrés Sancho Sánchez, Jose Valenzuela y Alejandro Avila Pérez.

Agradecer a todxs y cada uno de mis compañerxs, aunque suene tópico sin vosotros no hubiera sido lo mismo, solo nosotrxs sabemos de lo que somos capaces, ahora a demostrarlo al mundo🌍

Si estás buscando un programa de formación en desarrollo de software que te enseñe desde cero y te prepare para trabajar en proyectos del mundo real, te recomiendo encarecidamente el Master en Desarrollo de Software en Assembler Institute of Technology. Durante 7 meses, aprenderás desde los fundamentos de la programación hasta el stack MERN (MongoDB, Express, React y Node.js), junto con muchas otras tecnologías y herramientas utilizadas en la industria. El enfoque en trabajar en equipo y las metodologías AGILE son invaluables para cualquier persona que desee trabajar en un entorno empresarial. Y lo mejor de todo es que el equipo de Recursos Humanos te ayuda a prepararte para las entrevistas y para enfrentarte al mercado laboral. Personalmente, me siento muy preparado para comenzar mi carrera en el desarrollo de software después de completar este programa.

As a student of the Assembler Institute's learn-by-doing software development master program, I highly recommend it to anyone looking to advance their career in software development. This program provides hands-on experience and practical knowledge that is essential for success in the industry. The instructors are knowledgeable and supportive, and the program is constantly updated to keep up with the latest trends and technologies. Furthermore, the Assembler Institute is a gateway to getting a job in software development, as it provides excellent networking opportunities and connects students with industry professionals. Overall, the Assembler Institute is a fantastic choice for anyone looking to launch their career in software development.

Realicé un Master de Full Stack Web Developer en Assembler Institute of Technology y tuve una experiencia excelente. El programa fue riguroso e intensivo, pero siempre me sentí apoyado por los mentores y el personal. Aprendí habilidades valiosas que son relevantes en el mundo real y me siento preparado para comenzar mi carrera como desarrollador web Full Stack.

Recomiendo Assembler Institute of Technology para cualquiera que busque comenzar una carrera en el mundo de la tecnología de la información como desarrollador web Full Stack. El programa proporciona un sólido conocimiento de las tecnologías y herramientas más recientes y relevantes, así como una sólida comprensión de la lógica de programación y la arquitectura de software. Además, el personal y los mentores están comprometidos con el éxito de sus estudiantes y brindan un apoyo excepcional en todo momento. ¡Estoy muy contento con mi experiencia en Assembler Institute of Technology y se lo recomendaría a cualquiera interesado en el desarrollo web Full Stack!

Quería compartir mi experiencia en el master Full Stack de Assembler Institute of technology. Estoy muy contenta con la calidad del programa y siento que he salido muy bien preparada. Los profesores y el plan de estudios fueron excepcionales y lograron proporcionar una sólida comprensión de los fundamentos de la programación, así como las habilidades necesarias para trabajar en un entorno de desarrollo de software real.Además, la experiencia de haber conocido a algunos de los mejores compañeros durante el programa ha sido invaluable. Trabajar con ellos me ha permitido aprender de diferentes enfoques y perspectivas, lo que ha sido muy enriquecedor.Finalmente, quiero destacar el gran nivel profesional que caracteriza al equipo docente y administrativo. Han demostrado un compromiso inquebrantable con el éxito de los estudiantes y un enfoque colaborativo en todo momento. ¡Gracias por esta experiencia y por ayudarme a dar un giro de 360º a mi carrera profesional! 

I studied Computer Engineering in Cuba. After finishing, I had several jobs but I realized that the programming level was not so high. When I came to Spain, I came across an advertisement on social networks for the Software Development master's degree and I went through the admissions process. Once I had Spanish residency, I took the step to increase my programming level and get a job as a Developer. I was clear that I wanted to work on what I'm passionate about: programming.

What caught my attention about Assembler, in addition to a place to learn how to become a junior full stack developer, was the ISA (Income Share Agreement) that you only pay when you find your new job, it's money that you don't have to worry about until afterwards and it's a great help.

About the curriculum: in my case, I found the progression of content to be good, I was motivated, it wasn't a burden for me, I saw that I was progressing and improving, at some point I clicked and I began to understand everything better. Also, getting to know amazing people, friends who go through intense situations like you, creates strong bonds.

After finishing the Master's degree, the Assembler team, and in particular Jose Valenzuela and Carlos Velilla, noticed my collaborative ability, development and progression in the Master's degree, assertiveness and patience. Jose told me about an open position on the team, after a few weeks of selection process, I said yes!

Now I am happy to have finished the Master's degree and come out with a job, doing what I love.

The Assembler methodology is to learn by doing, and apart from being a very intensive coding master program, I have learnt how to learn which is the talent I felt I was lacking when I was applying for jobs as a developer, before attending Assembler.

In my case, it took me only one week to find a job, and that's with the great help of Assembler HR department team Alinne and Manu. They helped me in every step of the way from writing a stand-out CV, through mocking a real tech interview environment, improving soft skills, and of course, most importantly, helping me find my first job as a fullstack developer! 

Now, after a couple of months into my new job, I see how well Assembler equipped me with learning methods, I mostly feel it when tackling programming problems and know how to address them correctly.

Before Assembler I took a bootcamp course and thought I had what it took to land a developer job, oh boy, only when studying in Assembler did I understand how far behind I was. 

Looking back,  Assembler, a part of being an educational institute, was to me a great place to get to know an interesting group of individuals and in general one was one of the best choices I made to kick off my career as a software developer.

Assembler is the best one can get most definitely. 

It consists in a full-time 9 to 6 pm, 100% hands-on-work since day one adding up to more than 1200 hours of coding everyday and learning through real world projects. More than 30 done until graduation. The support and availability of the staff os superb and this way we really learn. 

I would highly recommend Assembler as being the best in Europe if you are looking for a real experience at an institution with a 100% hiring  rate and not just a 3 month bootcamp or a 4 year convecional degree where you barely have practice. 

It was an overall incredible experience. They helped me enter my current job which happens to be the best working experience I've had so far. Although I would say it lacks code review and testing practice, it gives you the base to go out there and get a decent job. If you were to compare Bootcamps in Barcelona with this Master at Assembler Institute of Technology you'd see it has the best balance between time, contents and results. In my opinion, it's more suitable for n00bs or levels 0 - 1... If you are already into coding, this would feel kind of easy in the beginning. 
I would highlight the career services hub which covers the student for the following 5 years and also the paying conditions.

Assembler is for me not only an IT institute but also a training center, where you learn how to learn, where almost everything depends on you and your effort, the desire to learn, to progress, to want to do more. 
Not to mention all the collaborators who from the beginning were friendly, helpful, and always ready to help you with anything. 
In short, the experience I had as an assembler was spectacular. 

Assembler School of Software Engineering has been a pretty intense, yet absolutely rewarding academic experience in which I learnt not only the latest technologies and best coding practices, but also the necessary soft skills to continue growing as a developer in the long term.

The entire academic curriculum is designed to give students the closest possible experience to a real working environment, with tech leads, agile methodologies and version control systems. Besides learning to use technologies such as Javascript, React, Redux, SCSS, Node, MySQL, MongoDB or PHP, you will also gain a fundamental experience on working in agile teams, and will end the degree with a real project portfolio. 

Regarding the employability of the program, I cannot stress enough the role of Career Services on training us for the whole interview process. They helped us in every step, from building a successful CV and LinkedIn profile to tipping us on how to confront real job interviews.

If you are committed to making a career as a Software Engineer and willing to be really prepared for growing as a developer, I would 100% recommend Assembler School.

Assembler School of Software Engineering is a great place to become a full-stack software engineer and find a job

During its program, you will invest 7 months of your life working in a real work based environment with tech leads instead of teachers and developing real full stack projects learning how to use technologies as Javascript, React, Express, Redux, NodeJs, PHP, Laravel, etc.

You will also learn not just how to write clean code but how to work in real teams with agile technologies and version control systems.

Working like this will allow you to get a great portfolio and get you ready to start a job as a software engineer.

After the Hard Skills, the Career Services team will teach you the Soft Skills you need to become a real worker ready to be part of any kind of team and company. They will also help you build the best LinkedIn profile and CV and will train you to face the whole selection process. This is, undoubtedly, one of the most important phases of the master.

On your last weeks, you will have "hiring weeks" where you will get the opportunity to know real companies looking for new talent. You will get the opportunity to send them your CV and become part of their hiring process.

Assembler is 100% recommended if you want to be really prepared to work as a Software Engineer.

Assembler School is a great school to leearn how to be a better developer.

The school is based on real work enviroment method is a well designed method to learn good practiques in code development and how to improve your soft skills. 

The school staf is ther to bring you the need knwoledge and let you grow with your code development. They are there to help you whit all you need and when you finish the studys they have a very well designed carrer service to help you to enter in the work market.

I think is a very well designed school to start, be better developer and create a succesful carrer for each one to decide to study there.

I have been a student of Assembler Master ¨Software Development¨, which teach you to be Full stack, Frontend and Backend.

It is a master of 7 months hard, intense, no time to rest or rethink anything, it is a master to go with everything you have, not to regret, to evolve based on hard work.

The best of Assembler, is not only everything to learn, technologies, languages, tools, programs, experiences ....
The best thing about Assembler is the human quality behind it.

I have been fortunate to have some superb colleagues and mentors, I think that nowhere I have studied I have seen people with that professionalism and on par, that human quality.

Undoubtedly it is a wise and recommended decision.

Thank you Assembler.

P.S: Special thanks to Carlos Velilla, Jose Valenzuela, Pau, Manu, Alinne, Manuela and above all, to those classmates.

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In general, Assembler institute it’s a school with many masters, in my case I did the master in software development.
Here you’ll learn the latest technologies that most of the companies are working with.
In my humble opinion I’ve to say that I was not 100% sure to completely fit in the master. But at the end, I think was the best thing I ever did.
I met a lot of good people and made some good friends too. 
If you want to grow up in every way, as a person, as a professional, Assembler it’s a good if not the best choice.
One thing you have to keep in mind is: you’ll have to be constant, and study a lot of hours, in my case, extra hours of research help me to understand well what I was doing in the projects and pills.
In a nutshell, If you like the IT world, and you really want to work as a software developer, go for it, study in Assembler, you will never regret it.
And if you follow those steps, I’m sure that in 2 months or less you’ll get a good job as a web developer.

My experience with Assembler has been very intense, yet an absolutely rewarding academic experience. It´s been full of real-world-oriented tech challenges in which I have learned the latest technologies, the best coding practices, to have independency in resolving complex scenarios and situations, and where they have helped me improve my soft skills to continue growing as a developer in the long run.

The entire academic CV is designed to provide students the closest possible experience to a real-world scenario, with tech leads, agile methodologies and SCRUM and version control systems. Besides learning to use technologies such as Javascript, React, Redux, SCSS, Node, MySQL, MongoDB or PHP, you will also gain fundamental experience on working in agile teams, and will end the degree with a real project portfolio. 

If you are committed to making a career as a Software Engineer and willing to be really prepared for growing as a developer, I would 100% recommend Assembler.

As a former student of Assember School I can only recommend it.

They help you out with every step of the way, from the onboarding and the firsts steps with code -where the teachers patiently support you, provide you with good advice and show you the basics of a handful of languages and frameworks (PHP, JS, Laravel, React, MySQL, nodeJS...)- to the end of your journey when you get to apply to your first developer jobs -where Career Services will introduce you to their network of partners and recruiting tech companies-.

The experience has been awesome. The entire master is based on real-work experience building project which includes requirements and design specifications using the latest technology, learning how to work in team, like a real work environment. 
I'm not only learn how to write better code, but also improve all my soft skills, that are fundamentals when you'll work in a company or with other people. 
I think that in Assembler you can growth professionally and also personally from all the interesting talent you'll meet there.

More than 120 euros a day, with teachers who ramble, inexperienced in the subject matter, and those who are supposed to work in the field explaining very basic things at a very slow pace. The worst decision I have made.


I'll break it down for you to make a decision:
Python is something you can learn on YouTube. We spent about three days learning the for loop at that pace. But we did a live coding session where the teacher made continuous mistakes and went off on tangents because they wanted to learn why the errors occurred, or sometimes they would talk about other topics. I ended up exhausted after attending 2 or 3 hours of class for something I could have learned in a literal 15 minutes on YouTube. We didn't learn how to create classes, but I learned that on my own during the summer before starting this course. Like I said, YouTube is better. Then came a month of R. You know that it's not required for work unless you're a university genius or doing research in universities, etc., but it seems like since it's what the teacher knows best, they spend a whole month on it. The teaching improved here, or maybe I just adjusted my expectations. Now the mentors who work in companies come in and in two weeks, they teach us the basics of pandas, numpy, matplotlib, and seaborn. It's clear they have a good command of these topics and explain them well. It's very easy and you can learn it anywhere like on YouTube. Then a girl spends three days teaching us statistics for about 3 hours a day, but it seems like it's her first time teaching. She stutters a lot and sometimes explains things incorrectly. The work she gave us to follow was a mess.


I have to say that working on real projects means this: they give us a task with its solution based on famous datasets, which is something I've read from professionals that you shouldn't include in your portfolio when looking for work. Furthermore, they don't teach us how to work in a team, although they tell us to say in interviews that "we have worked in a real work environment from 9 am to 6 pm using agile methodologies like SCRUM," and the only truth is the schedule. At the end of the master's program, we had a 2-hour class on what agile methodology is, and they taught us an app (ClickUp) to use, which I convinced my team to use, but the rest wanted to work as they always had, and I have to say it was a disaster. We only used it for the final project, which lasted a month.


After the statistics teacher, a new teacher told us not to worry, that we would cover everything with her when we got to machine learning (which was a lie). Now SQL comes along, and it's the same, slow as if we had all the time in the world. On the first day, we made a schema of what a database would look like. In a week or more, we learned how to create databases (which we later found out is not what data scientists do). In the live coding sessions, they would give about half an hour to see if each of us could program something live from our homes, and sometimes someone would share their screen.


By the way, don't expect them to correct your work. I was sick, and a group left me their machine learning work, which was approved, but I found mistakes that meant they didn't understand anything! I had taken a good machine learning course before. I was also surprised when presenting the projects, seeing the mistakes they made, and then they would only congratulate them, and I think they didn't want to explain to them because it would require effort and they would give up, and all that matters in this school is just the show. They want the students to believe they are learning and not get upset, especially before reaching 40% of the course, as I believe the school doesn't receive the rest of the money from student finance or bcas.


According to what I heard from a staff member, as long as we upload the projects to the classroom, they don't even look at them. They believe whatever we say in the 5-minute presentation each of us gives with a PowerPoint slide.


Midway through the course, realizing that all that was left was machine learning and deep learning, and seeing the teachers and the schedule we had, I knew I wasn't going to learn anything else and I wanted to save around 7,000 euros, but they didn't let me leave because I had already surpassed 40% of the contract. The director, who also left halfway through the course along with the teacher who was supposed to teach us machine learning (only those two have left), asked me why I wanted to leave. I explained that I had already covered machine learning for three months and wasn't going to learn anything in the four remaining days of class. I also mentioned that I hadn't attended the statistics classes we were supposed to have. She told me that I would learn everything there. Well, when we got to the machine learning part, I asked her about the mathematics she mentioned, if it was about changing parameters in famous prediction models or changing the number of clusters in k-means. She said yes, that was it. They completely deceived me. That teacher taught us deep learning by providing us with a recorded 30-minute class each day on average and sometimes showing a few YouTube videos from DotCSV that I had already seen. The rest of the day was free for us to read documentation on whatever we wanted. But hey, I already paid for Coursera to learn, and I was taking a course on deep learning. I learned something very basic called batch normalization in 5 minutes. If you don't know that, you don't know something fundamental. She didn't explain it to us by her decision. Then she gave us an exercise already solved, and the whole class followed that solution, and we spent about two weeks on it, but in reality, the teams worked for only 3 or 4 days.


Don't expect this to be like university either. The teachers don't know how you work in a team. They don't visit the channels to see how you communicate, etc. They asked me for an opinion on some classmates. Am I qualified to give an opinion about a student? In university or a regular course, the teacher visits the groups and sees what's going on. Any recommendation from a teacher about a student would be a lie. I asked three teachers for recommendations just to see what would happen. One said yes, of course, and asked if I could give him a recommendation too. He told me to count on it, and I didn't respond because I didn't want to lie, and to this day, he hasn't given me the recommendation. Another one didn't even reply (we used to talk without any problem, so I assume it's legal), and another one said yes, but in reality, they only validated a few skills.


Then, after feeling like I haven't learned anything and not being able to do anything properly, the hiring fair comes. If you asked about it, they would get angry. So, I didn't know anything, and I thought it would be a couple of companies promoting themselves and that's it. But I was pleasantly surprised because there were about 12 companies that presented every half hour for two days, and then they told us to let our school know if we were interested so they could send our CVs to the companies. I liked the fact that they taught us that there are many job opportunities in the Netherlands and that if we knew English, we should apply because there were very few applicants. It seemed like they were desperate for data scientists, etc. So, I applied to many companies, but they all told me that there are a lot of applicants and that I didn't even pass the initial interview. Then, there was a company that I liked, so I asked the girl through LinkedIn for an interview, and she told me that it was a large company and that I should submit my CV through their website like everyone else.


So, my conclusion is that the recruiters come with their own interests, perhaps to say in their company that they have visited a school, I don't know. But here we are, some of us have been looking for a job for over 60 days, others for 30 days, when the average according to them is 45 days, and as far as I know, none of us have been hired. Another lie is that they told us the average salary for the first job is 28,000 euros. This year, in the advertisements, they say it's 30,000 euros. Well, at the hiring fair, with the recruiters from companies, they mentioned salaries between 18,000 and 23,000 euros, and the representatives from our school nodded in agreement. Everyone told me that I had been deceived, but I believed them. I didn't imagine that they would lie just to get the money. It seems like a business to me. They ask for around 300 euros per month for about 4 years if you work at a minimum wage job in a supermarket. And every month, you'll regret the decision you made.


So, my good deed and to have a clear conscience is to warn everyone who reads this. I don't care if I leave the school in a bad light, and I can speak freely without having to wait for a year or so.


It was the worst decision to choose this course for 16,500 euros. When I saw the content and the filler videos they put on YouTube to explain things, I came across the course I should have enrolled in, DS4B, which cost only 700 euros. I almost fell off my chair. Does that guy know that I didn't go to his school, and he teaches in another school that charges more than 20 times his price? I know that with that course, I would have learned 50 times more. 100 hours of well-explained classes!! Real projects that would make me gain experience. And the guy has over 20 years of experience. I really messed up by choosing this one.


Now, I recommend Coursera and ChatGPT.

Hope this helps, I have been in several universities being a very good student in some, one abroad, I did plenty of courses in my life after 40 years, and I taught myself, so I think tis review is of great value.

Have a good day,

Sergio.