Concordia Bootcamps

The course was great, slow pace fast at the start, and accelerated towards the end. The instructors were very friendly and i felt comfortable talking to each one.

Regarding the curriculum, could have used an extra class on the backend end and one less in basic js. Aside from this, it was perfect and even then the instructors were available once all the courses were done.

Last but not least important. The career coaching after graduating was better than expected. My coach Penny M. Guided all the way through and landed a job in less than 3 months without prior experience. Without her coaching, I would say it would have taken me longer. She motivated me, and gave me so much confidence! Thank you 

Recently I graduated from Concordia University Web Development Bootcamp. The course was so intensive that if anyone keeps continuing daily projects, will surely learn a lot and get confidence gradually. I like to mention that instructors are really helpful; if you get stuck for 20 mins, you should never hesitate to get help from them. I assert that you'll certainly learn through problems.
But I recommend that you must have prior basic knowledge about JavaScript, otherwise it's quite difficult to cope up with the pace of daily projects. I know some people really struggled without prior knowledge.

I appreciate the career support from the bootcamp. Career coach helps significantly to prepare for the interviews with resume and cover letter correction, behavioral interview questions and valuable key information. I would suggest that you have to give extra effort to prepare yourself for technical interviews. I can't but mention about the career events what helped me to land my job at Deloitte within a month after graduation. I hope career events will be more efficient in coming days with all our feedbacks.

My experience at Concordia Bootcamps was a fun, challenging, and rewarding one.  The course was thorough and gave students the skills to create full stack web applications from scratch.  There are several recurring topics/languages that I saw when looking for jobs that were not taught but overall, the curriculum was great and relevant.  The work was challenging and would be a bit difficult to tackle if you came into the program with zero experience (some prep work before taking the course was very beneficial).  The instructors were helpful and the projects were fun.

Upon graduating, I had a great experience with my career coach and wound up getting my first offer just three weeks after finishing the program.

All in all, I am very happy I attended this bootcamp and am excited to get started in the tech industry!

Asked Ziad to provide us with the answers for the set of questions that he sent us on the very first day of the Bootcamp. Never received them or any response from him. Don't understand why just the answers could not be shared. It would be very useful for us to have, as we could also use them to prepare for the job interview. 

When we graduated, no assistance from Ziad or any TA's with regards to preparing for the technical interview. No mock technical interview or whatsoever.

When asked Kevin for some advice on the cover letter, did not get anything good from him. He said it was not important. Did not want to believe he told me that. He certainly has no clue about it. And also no personalized advice on CV. 

 

  If you are considering to pay $7,000 to invest in your education and change careers, you might as well understand what you are actually getting for that money. My goal in this review is to be as thorough and objective as possible, so as to give you, prospective student, a clear understanding of what you are honestly signing up for. Looking back, the hype of the reviews here was not a true representative of the actual bootcamp experience. What disappointed me more was the politics that are being played on DecodeMTL course report. A perfect 5 star from all reviews…really now?   Job placement rate? Even if an education or experience isn’t as good as it seemed at least on paper or based on reviews, if they can give you a job within few months, it is still a good decision as you can pay off the $7,000 very soon and get your money back and upgrade your career. Unfortunately, DecodeMTL can’t deliver honest placement rates. As a matter of fact, once you are done with the program there is not much help, they have no hiring director that will assist you in finding a job. The job assistance you get is basically you having to email and call everyone that you can and hustle desperately to try to find someone to finally consider you and hire you. It's not an easy or enjoyable or streamlined process. It seems the Montreal market isn’t the best for developers and there is not enough jobs to go for everyone. Moreover, the average salary of those who do get hired are between $35,000-40,000, far less than other coding bootcamps ($50,000-$60,000) in the country and in the US. Then there is a great number that are just trying to find a job and disheartened and don’t want to write a review.   Curriculum I don’t think anyone feels competent to use the term full-stack web developer for themselves when they are out. The Decode team is warm and welcoming and I really enjoy some of the friendships I made there, but I joined DecodeMTL to learn to code... not to make friends. The instructor Ziad is knowledgeable and the co-founder Kevin is a great guy, but that being said, teaching yourself will save you money and emotional distress. The program is Highly underdeveloped. There are great resources online you can use that are equivalent, if not better, to the DecodeMTL program.    Conclusion For me, I don’t have a job, but the experience was good, although it wasn’t even close to the Hollywood movie that CourseReport reviews may have made it seem.