BrainStation is a global digital skills provider empowering teams and professionals with industry-recognized certifications and world-class instruction across AI, Product Management, Product Design, Data, and Digital Marketing. BrainStation specializes in in-person learning experiences and corporate training programs, trusted by everyone from Fortune 500 companies to high-growth emerging companies. Established in 2012, BrainStation has worked with over 500 instructors from the most innovative brands to develop cutting-edge, real-world digital education. Whether students are looking for career transformation or professional development, BrainStation offers a range of learning options, including full-time and part-time diploma programs, part-time certificate courses, and specialized skills training.
BrainStation’s courses and bootcamps offer a collaborative, project-based learning experience, with a regularly updated curriculum to ensure professionals gain the most relevant skills in their field. The class structure combines engaging, live instruction with interactive sessions and a hands-on, project-based curriculum. BrainStation also provides a variety of flexible learning options, including a proprietary online classroom and learning environment. This environment lets students attend live lectures, collaborate with fellow professionals, and receive immediate, real-time feedback from instructors – from anywhere in the world.
BrainStation has trained more than 30,000 alumni in over 100 countries. BrainStation’s bootcamps offer personalized career services, including career coaching to help learners meet their career goals. Networking and career-oriented events are also available at BrainStation.
2,338 reviews of BrainStation
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AnonymousDigital Marketing Freelance · Digital Marketing Course · Graduated 2020
Excel with the Experienced
I would really recommend BrainStation. The best learning experience I have has to date. As an adult who is making a career change, I was introduced to BrainStation as an option to take courses online. I learnt more than I expected and our instructors were phenomenal. They allow you to learn cutting-edge techniques that the instructors have so much experience with while working in the field. You get to learn the most in-demand concepts, skills, and tools. You gain Hands-On Experience and work on projects in a collaborative setting (both online or in class sessions) to apply current concepts and techniques and develop your skills. The Digital Marketing course included topics like:
Brand Strategy
Social Media
Analytics
Search Marketing
Email Marketing
I would really recommend it for anyone who is busy with life, but still wants to learn something new or like many of my peers who took it as a refresher course. Things are always changing in Marketing so this is really an excellent opportunity for anyone.
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AnonymousStudent · Graduation year 2020
UI Design
Here are my thoughts on the UI course at BrainStation
- Extremely thorough
- You get what you put it in: Even at a minimum you're walking away with a nicely designed, working prototype to add to your portfolio. At a maximum you've fully designed an app with interaction design.
- Instructors are well versed in the field and high-quality educators
- I encourage students to take more time brainstorming together -- everyone had such great ideas!
- I would have liked there to be a little more design training (colours, ratios, fonts, etc. They do cover this, but I imagine there's so much more!
- Would definitely recommend as an extra tool for your professional belt.Overall5.0Curriculum5.0Job supportN/AInstructors5.0 -
AnonymousStudent · Data Analytics Course · Graduation year 2020
Highly recommend this course
I started the course in-person at BrainStation before Covid-19 hit and the experience was great. I was worried it wasn't going to be the same online but it ended up being better than anticipated and I'd of actually preferred the whole course to be done online! The Instructors were always more than happy to help us over Zoom calls and kept in touch on Slack if we had any questions. Especially during this virus crisis, having an exceptional online course to take is extremely useful and I might even take one again soon from BrainStation.Overall5.0Curriculum4.0Job supportN/AInstructors5.0 -
AnonymousGraduate · Product Management Course · Graduated 2020
Great but No grad help.
The class was twice a week for a month, weekdays from 6:30 - 9:30. Many days we went over as the teachers Khalid and Maliha were explaining concepts and answering questions, but never felt rushed.
Well composed and informative, however, fairly entry-level set of knowledge, which worked well for me as that's what I was looking for.
No support from Brainstation after completion for help with resume update or interview preparations.Overall3.0Curriculum4.0Job support1.0Instructors5.0 -
AnonymousStudent · User Experience Design Course · Graduation year 2020
Part-time UX Design at Brain station in Vancouver
I took the part-time class for UX Design at Brain Station in Vancouver in February 2020. I really liked the class. The knowledge from the 2 teachers was priceless as they work currently in the industry. I would have loved to have more teaching of some softwares that are useful to complete the course (and to work in the industry in general), so it's best to learn some of the tools before hand like Sketch, etc... but I would not hesitate to take another class with Brainstation because of the wealth of information you get from the teachers.Overall5.0Curriculum4.0Job supportN/AInstructors5.0 -
AnonymousStudent · User Experience Design Course
UX Design
Instructors were great, always available for help. I think it was even more helpful since they were both currently working in the field.Overall5.0Curriculum5.0Job supportN/AInstructors5.0 -
AnonymousUX product designer · User Experience Design Bootcamp · Graduated 2019
UX Design and Research
The instructors are amazing and are very informative. While there were struggles throughout the course, most came becuase creativity and design can be subjective. I feel like it was handled pretty well with the most often phrase uttered being " Embrace Ambiguity" which at first was very fustrating but over time became a rule to follow. While the lessons taught were simple enough, what BrainStation does diffrent is force you to immediatly apply those lessons which for me was amazing. On top of that Brainstation Does an amazing job getting you actually experience. Things like brainstation 3d and a sprint that we ran with BMO was an awesome experince. While I wish more of the course had these moments where we did something similar to industry i was very content with the content. I think the worst part of this course is that fact that they dont teach html/css on top of sketch. Designers should learn to code, it makes them an asset.
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AnonymousAssociate Product Manager · Front End Web Development - Wyncode · Graduated 2019
Front-end Web Development Review
Wyncode is a very postivie learning environment with an abundance of resources. You definitely feel the "never stop learning" mentality while at Wyn-base. The overall culture is very supportive. Additionally, the UI/UX course and web development course team up together in order to get a better feel of what working in a real product environment would feel like.
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AnonymousGraduate · Full Stack Web Development - Wyncode · Graduated 2019
Five Stars
Five Stars for Wyncode
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AnonymousStudent · Full Stack Web Development - Wyncode · Graduation year 2019
Amazing!!
This is the place to do your bootcamp program. I fell in love with this place and for many of us it was our second home. You will not find better instructors anywher else.
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AnonymousStudent · Full Stack Web Development - Wyncode · Graduation year 2019
Went through bootcamp
Amazing bootcamp with great instructors. A lot of support when tackling any challenges. Great curriculum and lectures.
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AnonymousStudent · Full Stack Web Development - Wyncode · Graduation year 2019
Full-Stack Web Development
Full-Stack Web Development program learning HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, REACT, and Ruby on Rails.
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AnonymousFull Stack Web Development - Wyncode · Graduation year 2019
great experience
It was really challenging, very stressful, but amazing experience and huge learn curve in coding.
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AnonymousStudent · Front End Web Development - Wyncode · Graduation year 2019
Web Developer
The resources provided, and the environment built was essential to feeling confident in the tech bubble. I would recommend anyone and everyone thinking about going into tech to apply.
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AnonymousGraduate · Front End Web Development - Wyncode · Graduated 2019
Graduate
I'm very grateful to Wyncode! If it weren't for the WIT cohort, I wouldn't have realized that I'm front-end development oriented. I never dreamt before the WIT cohort that I would be involved in something like that, pioneering and everything. I feel like I have a bright future ahead if I keep up with Mr. Mikkola's and Wyncode's advice on the job search and staying motivated. I'm grateful to my teacher, to the program manager for the WIT cohort, and everybody else who made it possible.
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AnonymousGraduate · Data Science Bootcamp · Graduated 2019
Data Science - Full time
I was a bit hesitant about investing that much money in a Bootcamp, but now after this 3 months have passed, I can say it was definitely worth it. It was intense, fast-paced and challenging, everything you should expect from this sort of program. Overall the curriculum is great and the atmosphere is amazing.
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AnonymousGraduate · Data Science Course · Graduated 2019
12 Week Full Time Data Science
Great program to transition into a Data Science career. Was very happy with the knowledgeable and helpful instructors. They are great resource but they only make part of the whole experience. The whole BrainStation team works around the clock to give relevant and up to date material. From career development workshops, projects, cross program workshops and more this program really encompasses more than I expected. Would 100% recommend. You definitely get out what you put in.
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AnonymousGraduate · Full Stack Web Development - Wyncode · Graduated 2019
Full Stack Web Developer
You won't regret joining the Wynfam. It's an intense 10 weeks but you sure get out of it what you put in. Once you commit to putting in long days you will grasp the concepts. At the end you will have learned A LOT but you will also know that you have A LOT MORE to learn. Highly recommend. The teachers and TA's are so supportive and the co-founers get so involved in the journey, they're very inspiring.
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AnonymousMachine Learning · Graduation year 2019
Machine Learning
I really like the course, it wasn't too deep and it wasn't too top level, I learned so many things, but if you want to be successful in this course, you should know how to programming in python, it doesn't mean that you must know to advanced programming in python, but you should know how to develop a simple app in python.
The instructor of the course knows enough and can help you learn more industrial ML instead of academical ML.
I really really recommend this course to everyone that wants to learn ML.
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AnonymousGraduate · Full Stack Web Development - Wyncode
ALL REVIEWS ARE BIASED
Please do not take the reviews for Wyncode seriously. In order to receive "job support" from the Wyntalent team, you are REQUIRED TO LEAVE A FAVORABLE REVIEW of Wyncode on this website, AND verify your review. Therefore, all the great reviews you read about this school have a strong bias. Hundreds of graduates of their web development course remain unemployed, and all of the instructing staff/TAs are previous graduates of the course.
Overall2.0Curriculum2.0Job support1.0Instructors3.0Cristina of BrainStation
Marketing
May 13, 2019
Dear Anonymous,
Thank you for your review.
We appreciate your opinion and respect your point of view. However, we do want to make a couple of points clear to keep the information posted here accurate.
Our job support team is made up of four people (Wyntalent team) plus our co-founders, making it one of the largest job support teams of any code school. We invest in this area because we want to help our graduates find jobs as quickly as possible and assist in them finding their second, third and fourth jobs as well.
We also provide lifetime access to job support which is a unique and useful tool Wyncode offers to its alumni. Just recently, we saw a couple of alumni from our 2016 and 2017 programs, meet with our Wyntalent team to discuss their careers, and in hopes of securing their 2nd and 3rd jobs post Wyncode. This exercise rendered 3 job offers at very prominent tech companies for one of our alumni.
Our Lifetime Job Support applies to all Wyncode Alumni of our (full time) UX/UI Immersive Bootcamp and Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp programs -- something they can take advantage of whether or not they post a review.
To clarify the claim that “hundreds of graduates … remain unemployed”, we are including our Job Placement Report for 2017 (we are working on final numbers for 2018), which is reviewed and verified by a third party accounting firm to make sure we are transparent in our reporting, see here: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/314a6b43e959479339760bd4a/files/5d088d5e-958b-47ef-98ce-a5f5185a206b/2017_Job_Placement_Report_small_.01.pdf
We are one of only three code schools in the country that have an independently verified report that shows exactly what happens with our graduates after graduation. This data is verified by a large accounting firm for accuracy. For example, in 2017, we were proud to maintain a 90% job placement rate among job-seeking graduates and are on track for a similar number once the 2018 figures are compiled later this year.
We hire the best instructors in the space. All of our instructors must pass a rigorous technical assessment and demonstrate that they are able to teach effectively. We are very proud of our teaching team since our inception as a school; to name a few all-stars - Full Stack instructor Ed Toro, who holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from M.I.T and has over 12 years of experience in top tech firms prior to teaching at Wyncode from 2014 to 2018 -- and Andy Weiss, our current Head Instructor for the Full Stack program - who comes from a background in education holding a Masters in Education from Harvard University and prior to joining Wyncode, was the Lead Engineer at Mark Cuban funded Nuro Retention. Our UX/UI program is lead by the amazing Gessica Tortolano, who has more than 20 years of experience in Product and User Experience Design - having worked for clients like Google, Gap, Samsung, IBM, Coca Cola, The Miami Heat, Carnival Cruises and more.
For recent graduates interested in teaching, we have a tiered TA system whereby TAs can join the team in a junior position and move up the ranks and eventually reach the level of an instructor. Typically, our junior TA’s are part-time as they consist of the top performers from each cohort, who are quickly hired by our hiring partners at the end of their cohorts.
Should you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us at Wyncode anytime. We are always here to help!
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