Boolean

I will preface this review by saying that approximately 6 months after completing the Boolean course, I did receive a job offer for a Junior Developer position, so fundamentally the course did work, but I do think that while it is a good bootcamp, there are areas where it could be significantly improved.
I will also say that if you're planning on undertaking any bootcamp with the expectation that securing a job when you finish will be easy, please think again. The job market for junior coders is incredibly tough right now and has been for a couple of years.

Teaching
Overall the standard of teaching was good, but it wasn't as good as it could be at times. The pace of teaching varied a lot from one teacher to another, some went at a good pace, some went too fast, and some went too slow as a result of getting bogged down with tangents. All of the teachers were clearly knowledgable and enthusiastic, but I think that a bit more of a structured approach would have made a big difference. The biggest issue for me was teachers going off track as a result of questions from students. These kind of courses will always attract students who are curious, who want to think about all kinds of different directions and applications for the things we are learning, and teachers will naturally want to satisfy this curiosity, but too often we would spend 15+ minutes listening to an answer about some tangential application of the thing we were being taught, which then meant that other more relevant parts of the lesson felt rushed as a result. Keeping on topic more, and maybe introducing a regular afternoon time slot for those kind of questions would help.

Course Structure
The general structure for the course was a morning lecture, and an afternoon practice exercise, usually done in pairs, with a number of instructors available to answer questions and provide assistance during the afternoon. Spaced throughout the course were longer, 2-3 day, individual challenges with a longer 1-2 week individual project undertaken at the end of each half of the course.
Overall this structure works well, but there were a few occasions when an individual challenge was extended by a day or two because one or two members of the cohort hadn't finished, which meant that the other 18+ students who had finished were effectively left with dead time. Slowing everybody down because of a small minority who struggled on a portion felt like it was doing more harm to the progress of the group than necessary.

Feedback
The biggest weak point of Boolean in my opinion. Our daily exercises generally had test suites written so that you could verify that your work did achieve what it needed to, but getting actual feedback from a teacher on your work was extremely rare. The majority of personal feedback we got was at the end of the individual challenges, when we would have a peer review session and each student would be asked to provide feedback on 3 other students work. Some, like myself, took this seriously and would read all of the code, make constructive feedback, suggest potential improvements or solutions to things the student had struggled with, but often you would simply get a handful of comments like "looks good", "clever solution", and so on.
The lack of real feedback from the teachers meant that you could end up writing messy, inefficient code, but because it passed the suite of tests you think it's good.
Real feedback on your work from experienced coders is essential as far as I'm concerned. You need somebody who knows how to write good code to help you learn how to write clean, efficient code and not just code that "works", and unfortunately real feedback on your work was pretty much non-existent throughout the course.

Curriculum
Overall the curriculum is OK, pretty standard for a full stack bootcamp, and I'm not sure that much more could be added to it without ending up covering a lot of content to a very shallow level, but the reality of the current job market means that what you learn is really not enough any more. Throughout my time on the course I was spending 2-3 hours a day working on learning things that weren't taught by Boolean. Modern frameworks like next.js, Angular, relational databases with MongoDB, component libraries like Mantine and MUI, TypeScript, full authentication systems. There are so many people who have completed bootcamps or self taught, who all have pretty much the exact same range of things they've learnt, that without putting in a lot of your own time to learn new things around the course, you are really going to struggle to stand out.

Career Services
I will say that it is a very difficult time to break in to this industry as a junior. The number of people completing bootcamps or self teaching has gone through the roof, and recruitment of juniors is still at a significantly lower level than it has been in previous years. Applying for jobs with 400+ other applicants is not uncommon, so it is going to be a slog.
As a result of this, I do think that Boolean do make unrealistic promises to potential students. A quick glance at their website tells you that "95%" of students end up with a job in coding, and that it takes "2 months on average to find a job".
Nearly 7 months after completing my course, only 4 of the 18 students on my course have employment in a relevant industry.
They do have resources available, you are given a series of presentations about things like setting up a professional looking github and linkedin, how to write a CV, and they run a weekly tech clinic that lasts an hour and aims to introduce you to some new things, and regular talks by alumni or industry professionals, and you do have access to a couple of people who you can request a one to one with to tackle problems you may be having. So there is support there, but the unfortunate reality is that there are so many people looking for junior roles at the moment that none of this support really means much because at the end of the day you're still competing against hundreds of people for every role.

Conclusion
Boolean is fundamentally a good bootcamp. If they can fix the issues with pacing of the teaching, and find a way to give a lot more feedback on students work then I think it will be a very good bootcamp. However what they promise in terms of employment is woefully optimistic and, in the current recruitment climate, unrealistic.
If you're willing to put in 10 to 20 hours of your own time every week to build your knowledge beyond what the course teaches, or are able to dedicate yourself full time to further study for several months upon completion of the course, then Boolean is a very good place to start, but it is by no means a golden ticket to a job in the tech industry.

Data Analyst Course was something that I was curious about and Boolean just delivered it!
I felt that I had to change my life and since my last job as a MRO officer needed a lot of data and had to organize it and explore it, I thought that my skills were lacking with just excel and basic programming... So I researched a bit and Boolean.co.UK delivered the content, tips and valuable experience with awesome trainers and high quality classes!
It was not just a course, it was a marvelous ride, with it's up and downs and people from all over! Really good and interesting stuff!
Thanks a lot to all of you and best of luck for everyone's future ;-) 

 Salve a chiunque leggerà questa recensione.
Probabilmente se sei arrivato quì a leggere una recensione è perché hai intenzione di iscriverti a Boolean e stai cercando di capire se è il passo giusto. Questo non posso dirtelo io, però posso raccontarti la mia esperienza. L'esperienza di chi, come te, ha avuto lo stesso dubbio.
Sono partito con i piedi di piombo, molto diffidente e con la paura fosse una sorta di 'scam', invece devo dire che il nostro insegnante mi ha fatto ricredere, una settimana alla volta, conquistando la mia fiducia come quella di tutti gli altri studenti.
Si parte veramente dalle basi e viene spiegato tutto incredibilmente nel dettaglio, in caso di dubbio si può tranquillamente alzare la mano (virtualmente ovviamente) e porre le proprie domande. Penso che la scelta di dividere il corso in metà teorico e metà pratico sia più che azzeccata, soprattutto per chi come me, ha fatica a ricordare le cose solo sentendole, ma invece le imprime a fuoco se ci mette le mani sopra. Non posso parlare per tutto lo staff boolean ma il mio insegnante Marco L. è riuscito a trasmetterci tutta la sua passione e ad insegnarci al meglio ciò che il corso offriva, spesso anche 'fuori orario'. Il pomeriggio durante l'esercitazioni c'è la possibilità di usufruire di dell'aiuto di 2 tutor in caso di necessità. Io non avendo avuto quasi mai dubbi, non ho avuto modo di conoscerli al meglio, ma da quel che so e da ciò che i miei compagni mi hanno detto, sono state due persone veramente valide e competenti.
Ho avuto una classe fantastica e degli insegnanti ancora migliori, (ad oggi alla fine del corso, ancora ci sentiamo spesso) mi ritengo molto fortunato per questo, però vorrei avvisare a chi vuole iscriversi, che quì bisogna studiare e bisogna applicarsi tutti i giorni. Come dicono, è un corso intensivo e voi dovete applicarvi al massimo per stare al passo.
Detto ciò, so che il corso richiede un sforzo economico non indifferente e tanto sacrificio, però posso dirti che prima della fine del corso, 2 studenti sono già stati assunti e altri hanno avuto diversi colloqui (alcuni, è vero, solo per la nomina di boolean. Io stesso non credevo a questa nomina ma personalmente mi è stato detto che ho passato le selezioni perché ho fatto il corso.) il resto sta a te.
Mettiamola così, Boolean è il primo passo per un futuro diverso, sta a te fare tutti gli altri. 

Ottima esperienza! In 6 mesi ho appreso le basi ma soprattutto la metodologia corretta per intraprendere la carriera dello sviluppatore web. Ovviamente il programma è abbastanza compatto (visto quanto dura per forza), ma si ha comunque tempo di affrontare in maniera esaustiva sia la parte di frontend, che quella di backend.
Importante: Boolean non ti trova il lavoro, ma ti aiuta e accompagna in questo percorso. La riuscita del corso dipende da te stesso e da quanta voglia e dedizione metti per cercare di raggiungere il tuo obiettivo.
È possibile iniziare effettivamente da zero come dicono, ma la passione per questo settore deve essere tanta.
Ottimo anche il servizio di Carrer Service che ti aiuta a impostare correttamente i vari profili delle piattaforme utili alla ricerca del lavoro.
Consiglierò il corso sicuramente.

I came to Boolean UK as a product manager to broaden my skillset and understand development better or become a developer myself. The material is great with html, css, node.js, rest api, react and git. We learned a lot from teachers as well as having pair programming, group work sessions and individual assignments. Everything is done live, in real time, there is no pre-recorded video content, which was a huge plus for me. You have to be intrinsically motivated to do the course, as an adult it's up to us to put the effort in and how much we take away from it. There is a group of students with you who go through the same experience which is really nice. After the course there is a lot of mentoring and coaching around finding a job (LinkedIn, portfolio, GitHub, CVs, cover letters, interview prep, processes), which is great, and as with the dev part, it's up to us how much we make use of them. Make sure you are aware of the macroeconomic situation before you jump in --- the current market for junior software devs is a somewhat difficult, but this will hopefully change in a few months. 

Before to join the course I was a pastry chef so I was a bit worried about actually been able to go through the entire bootcamp. I chose the full stack course cause I wanted to have a decent background before to look for a job. I have to say that overall I had a nice experience with Boolean UK, I changed teachers a few times over the 6 months so I found some of them having a better approach in teaching than others. If you want to change career they will give you all the tools but than is up to you to keep going studying and learning more and more. 

Le lezioni mattutine di teoria sono strutturate un po' come come le lezioni delle scuole superiori, offrono la possibilità di intervenire e partecipare attivamente grazie alla disponibilità del docente che dimostra sempre una grande pazienza. Gli esercizi del pomeriggio sono stati fondamentali per mettere in pratica ciò che abbiamo studiato durante la mattina. I tutor sono altrettanto preparati e sempre disponibilissimi. Soltanto a volte ho notato che potevano avere difficoltà a gestire tutti i ticket degli alunni. Consiglio quindi di ridurre il numero di alunni per classe per facilitare la gestione.

Nonostante ciò, l'esperienza complessiva è stata molto soddisfacente. Il progetto finale, oltre ad essere formativo, Dal punto di vista umano, è stata un'esperienza bellissima che mi ha permesso di conoscere persone speciali e di lavorare come un vero e proprio team. Consiglio vivamente questo corso a tutti. 

L'ultimo giorno di lezioni è stato un po' come l'ultimo giorno di scuola: emozionante ma con una nota nostalgica.