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This school is now closed. Although Dev Bootcamp is no longer accepting students or running its program, you can still see historical information and Dev Bootcamp alumni reviews on the school page.
As of July 17, 2017, Dev Bootcamp is no longer accepting applications. Founded in 2012, Dev Bootcamp is a short-term, immersive 18-week software development program (9 weeks part-time remote, 9 weeks onsite immersive, with career prep integrated throughout). Dev Bootcamp’s mission is to transform lives by teaching people of all backgrounds the technical, cognitive, and interpersonal skills used in software development through a responsive instructional model.
Graduates of the program are agile in Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and database systems such as SQL and PostgreSQL. Students also learn how to approach challenges like developers, how to optimize their learning, and then apply those techniques to pick up new skills or languages required in the field. The Dev Bootcamp curriculum is informed by employers and students with the aim of preparing graduates for the current job market.
Graduates work for a range of companies from startups, to mid-size and Fortune 500 companies in industries including tech, fashion, finance, education, travel, and media. Dev Bootcamp currently has six campuses operating in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, San Diego, Seattle, and Austin.
I enjoyed my time at DBC and they took me from not knowing any coding to building Ruby on Rails sites. DBC is no longer open by the time I am writing this review but there was a few core things that the recent grads would have benefited from in an updated curriculum. First a stronger focus on Node would have been very useful especially with demand for Junior Rails developers being down. Employers now demand much more in terms of experience and personal projects so a guide for post-graduati...
I enjoyed my time at DBC and they took me from not knowing any coding to building Ruby on Rails sites. DBC is no longer open by the time I am writing this review but there was a few core things that the recent grads would have benefited from in an updated curriculum. First a stronger focus on Node would have been very useful especially with demand for Junior Rails developers being down. Employers now demand much more in terms of experience and personal projects so a guide for post-graduation career development would have been a huge help. Many of the companies on DBC's Employ site were not looking for Junior Developers especially Jr Ruby Developers. I find myself in a weird situation where I am much more technically inclined but not skilled enough to compete for the scarce number of Junior Developer positions on the market. I took a position in a support role that utilizes my skills to some extent but there is no clear path to becoming an actual software developer especially where I am at skill wise. Anyone planning on taking a Coding Bootcamp in the future should really look at the job market and figure out what skills are in demand before attending a coding school. If recent grads of the coding school you are interested in, do not have jobs after 3+ months of looking then maybe that coding school is not worth your money. Job placement is super important and DBC was having a lot of difficulties placing recent grads over the past year. To summarize, I did enjoy my time at DBC but I did not graduate with the skills I needed to get into a Junior Developer Role.
Dev Bootcamp provided me with the learning environment and support to become a web developer, as well as gave me a network of close friends whom I can rely upon. Attending DBC was one of the best choices I've ever made.
Fantastic program taking a wholistic approach to developing. Lessons, Facilities, and Instructors were all top-notch.
DBC was a fantstic lifechanging experience. However, I will say, the tech stack is a bit dated. Ruby is on the decline, and if I was to do things over again, and my only consideration was time from program start to securing a job, I was have chosen a Javascript focused bootcamp.
I am going to refrain from rambling on, as there are endless reviews here that will tell you what a transformative experience DBC is, and I echo their sentiments entirely. At the risk of sounding redundan...
DBC was a fantstic lifechanging experience. However, I will say, the tech stack is a bit dated. Ruby is on the decline, and if I was to do things over again, and my only consideration was time from program start to securing a job, I was have chosen a Javascript focused bootcamp.
I am going to refrain from rambling on, as there are endless reviews here that will tell you what a transformative experience DBC is, and I echo their sentiments entirely. At the risk of sounding redundant though, Ruby is just not the in-demand language that it used to be. Keep coding after graduation and you'll learn this skills necessary to get a dev job (I'm currently using Java for my job) however, if you expect to get a job immediately, or even that quickly after graduation, I'd recommend you temper you expectations.
I chose this bootcamp based on the atmosphere and values that it promotes - Inclusion, continuous learning at any rate/age/speed, etc., empathy, friendships, working together, and creativity. You could go to any place to learn the skills, but paying to learn anywhere else I felt was cutting myself short. DBC not only teaches you the skills, but teaches you how to teach yourself new skills moving forward. It has become my home in terms of where I go to find comfort and hang out with people ...
I chose this bootcamp based on the atmosphere and values that it promotes - Inclusion, continuous learning at any rate/age/speed, etc., empathy, friendships, working together, and creativity. You could go to any place to learn the skills, but paying to learn anywhere else I felt was cutting myself short. DBC not only teaches you the skills, but teaches you how to teach yourself new skills moving forward. It has become my home in terms of where I go to find comfort and hang out with people in my free time. I could not be more happy or proud from graduating from somewhere that genuinely cares.
Almost one year later and I still don't have a job as a developer. The market is flooded with junior developers and even as I build up my skill set, learn new frameworks and libraries, do more projects, actively attend meetups and apply online, it just seems as though I'm not making any progress from the lack of responses I receive. Dev Bootcamp is very good at soliciting feedback from the small percentage of students who do get jobs a...
Almost one year later and I still don't have a job as a developer. The market is flooded with junior developers and even as I build up my skill set, learn new frameworks and libraries, do more projects, actively attend meetups and apply online, it just seems as though I'm not making any progress from the lack of responses I receive. Dev Bootcamp is very good at soliciting feedback from the small percentage of students who do get jobs as developers. They'll magnify their successes on social media, but the bigger picture is most of their cohort members still don't have jobs. The careers team genuinely cares about your success, but they seem powerless to do anything about it. They're able to give you general career advice, but they're not specialized in understanding how to break into the software industry as a developer. They've always kept sending me potential jobs I could've got without spending 14k attending Dev Bootcamp. It feels less about the students success post graduation and more about pumping and dumping students as a business.
Dev Bootcamp was a great option from 2012-2014, when recruiters were desperate for developers, but in 2017, it's not worth 14k to spend on. I DON'T RECOMMEND DEV BOOTCAMP. Choose a bootcamp such as App Academy or Flatiron because they'll put their business on the line for your success. At least you'll have the insurance of receiving your money back if you don't get a job as a developer. I've attended a meetup where I met someone from App Academy who received a full refund of their deposit and no deduction of their annual salary after a year of being unemployed and unable to get a job as a developer. Dev Bootcamp will just shrug their shoulders and treat you as more of a statistic as they're piling up more unemployed graduates to support without any insurance of giving their money back. No bootcamp can guarantee you a job with the a saturated market of junior developers, but they can guarantee your money back if you put in the work and still didn't get a job as a developer. I will update this review once I land a job as a developer. If I don't, just know I'm still unemployed or gave up and took a different route.
The program was excellent and really taught you how to learn new skills/frameworks/technologies quickly. I graduated from the Chicago campus and the program used Ruby and Javascript as the main tools for learning the fundamentals of writing code.
Still in Chicago with a great new gig using Javascript, React, and Node most of which I taught myself following the program using the style of learning I learned there; however, several of my cohort mates got jobs where they are working ...
The program was excellent and really taught you how to learn new skills/frameworks/technologies quickly. I graduated from the Chicago campus and the program used Ruby and Javascript as the main tools for learning the fundamentals of writing code.
Still in Chicago with a great new gig using Javascript, React, and Node most of which I taught myself following the program using the style of learning I learned there; however, several of my cohort mates got jobs where they are working in the exact languages we learned.
As I was leaving alot was changing; however, for what its worth it was an amazing experience. I agree with what others here have posted about researching the city where you are looking to work and finding out what languages are being used there. Not that you get locked in to a single language/waste time by learning non-applicable skills but it will make you more appealing to employers to have a portfolio in location-industry specific skills and cut down on the jobsearch time.
Great career staff, great mentorship, very intense (military bootcamp time/energy investment) with a lot of kindness and support
Feel free to connect with me at https://rrichardsonv.github.io
I heavily relied on Course Report reviews when I chose to be part of one of Dev Bootcamp's first cohorts, so I feel obligated to share my own experience. First, there are components of the Austin Dev Bootcamp curriculum of which I was unaware, and when I was aware, I didn't take seriously. I wish in retrospect that I had.
At the time I attended, the following was all true:
Dev Bootcamp has three assessments throughout the curriculum. If you fail the...
I heavily relied on Course Report reviews when I chose to be part of one of Dev Bootcamp's first cohorts, so I feel obligated to share my own experience. First, there are components of the Austin Dev Bootcamp curriculum of which I was unaware, and when I was aware, I didn't take seriously. I wish in retrospect that I had.
At the time I attended, the following was all true:
Dev Bootcamp has three assessments throughout the curriculum. If you fail the assessment, you are obligated to repeat. DBC campuses have rolling cohorts that allow students to immediately repeat each phase, but Austin does not. There is an assessment that happens two weeks before the end of Phase 0, an assessment after the first three weeks of Phase 1, and again at the end of Phase 2. There were a handful of people in our cohort who either chose or were forced by the staff to repeat at the end of Phase 0 or at the end of Phase 2. The students who repeated Phase 0 had to repeat the nine-week curriculum and wait for the next cohort to start their on-site portion. The students who repeated Phase 2 were forced to drop out of the current cohort, wait a month and half gap period before the next cohort, and instead of simply repeating Phase 2, were forced to start all over again at the beginning of Phase 1. The staff said this was so that all the students could "bond".
This is necessary information because you may be a student who passes the assessments and feels confident in their knowledge, but if you do not, I would advise planning now whether you can afford the financial and logistical repercussions of voluntarily or forcibly being held back.
Second is the Engineering Empathy "EE" sessions. I deeply wish I had taken seriously some of the earlier Course Report reviews on Dev Bootcamp, which cautioned that both students and facilitators were not prepared to handle the serious nature and depth of the EE topics. Now that I experienced the sessions, I agree that they are great in theory, but counterproductive in practice, especially if you are a marginalized person in tech. As a woman, I found the way in which some were handled, particularly the discussion on microaggressions, distressing in a way that distracted me from learning to code. The discussions inevitably had the predominantly white, male members of our cohort questioning the two women about their experiences and asking them to justify their experiences. This also led to another big issue, the fact that we didn't address intersectionality or discuss anything besides straight white women in our microagressions discussion. I left feedback for the campus to start having the licensed counselor on staff facilitate these discussion and be in charge of creating safe spaces, as opposed to having a teacher wantonly naming "safe spaces" and facilitating off-the-cuff discussions.
In terms of teaching methodologies, I appreciated the idea behind having little instruction and prompting students to directly jump into new challenges and figure them out, as that's what we'll be doing in our careers. However, as a beginner coder I felt like I spun my wheels more than was necessary. I know that DBC prides itself in a vetted curriculum, but I learned more skills when I finally gave myself permission to stray from some daily solo and team challenges to do what I needed to learn. Once I started doing what I had to do for myself and not relying on last-minute DBC breakout sessions, I felt I gained a lot more tools in my coding tool belt with which to work. I also felt I gained a deeper understanding of the code I was writing.
Job placement does not exist at DBC. The staff will help you with professional preparation, but I barely utilized these tools or found them helpful when I got my full-time development job. I had other resources to work with, such as my alma matter and local mentors, so I'm not sure what it would be like to only rely on DBC for help getting jobs.
There were great perks to the curriculum, such as an on-site counselor and weekly yoga classes. I took advantage of both and greatly appreciated them. The EE sessions on communication with senior developers were helpful when it came time for me in my work to pair with seniors or ask for feedback during code reviews. The curriculum is as extensive as it can be in the little amount of time that you are there, and Ruby on Rails is a very accessible language to beginners.
If you're looking to just learn code and learn it fast. Think again. But if you're looking to learn code in an environment that fosters collaboration and focuses more on a hollistic approach to web development, then you're on the right track. Dev Bootcamp Seattle is exactly that. The campus is conveniently located right in Pioneer Sqare in the Capitol One Investment building of lovely Seattle. It's a quaint open layout space with the best staff you will ever meet. These people genuinly car...
If you're looking to just learn code and learn it fast. Think again. But if you're looking to learn code in an environment that fosters collaboration and focuses more on a hollistic approach to web development, then you're on the right track. Dev Bootcamp Seattle is exactly that. The campus is conveniently located right in Pioneer Sqare in the Capitol One Investment building of lovely Seattle. It's a quaint open layout space with the best staff you will ever meet. These people genuinly care about you, your wellbeing, your learning, your everything. You are their main priority forever and always. From BEFORE you even start your first day, they're interested in getting to know you. Once you're there you gain a new family! The people are amazing and the structure of the classes are amazing. You have 24/7 access to the space and access to a curiculum that is ever changing. DBC prides itself on feedback and has been able to build a system where they can integrate your feedback on a consistent basis. If you're looking for a program that has a good structure to teach students how to code but also teach them how to be great people int he world and then DBC is the place for you. The type of group environment that DBC Seattle foster produces an amazing experience that you can't get anywhere else. They're building a great community out in Seattle. Alumni even care about you! It's an inclusive space where people come together to talk tech, talk food, and just want to get to know you. You'll never feel like you're alone or the only one stuck on a problem at any given point. It's a team effort everyday to make sure you're getting the best education possible. DBC Seattle really curates to their students wishes. If you want to attend a program that teaches you how to code, helps you meeting amazing people and cares about you, then DBC is the place to be.
I had a truly life-changing experience at Dev Bootcamp (DBC) Seattle. I've had an interest in programming for years and have spent a lot of time and energy self-teaching through online resources and seeking mentorship through Meetup groups, but I was never quite able to get over the hump. I never felt like I really understood the concepts, instead I was just nailing down the operations and syntax.
Enter Dev Bootcamp Seattle.
I learned far more in 18 weeks at DBC than I ...
I had a truly life-changing experience at Dev Bootcamp (DBC) Seattle. I've had an interest in programming for years and have spent a lot of time and energy self-teaching through online resources and seeking mentorship through Meetup groups, but I was never quite able to get over the hump. I never felt like I really understood the concepts, instead I was just nailing down the operations and syntax.
Enter Dev Bootcamp Seattle.
I learned far more in 18 weeks at DBC than I had over the previous five years of self-teaching. They're the oldest coding bootcamp in existence and it shows. The coursework is on point. You really learn the basic concepts in-depth before you use the fancy new technologies. We got to learn React! It's a very, very popular and marketable JavaScript framework right now. I see it all over the place on job descriptions and had planned to learn it for some time. DBC delivered.
The first 9 weeks is all online. I kept working a regular job and devoted about 20 hours a week to DBC. The coursework was really well put together and you get to start pair programming right away. I was a little resistant to pairing at first, but I now believe there is no better learning tool than pair programming. You'll cover the basics of the command line, Git/Github, Ruby, and Javascript during this phase. Then comes the real deal.
The pace at which we covered material during the in-person portion (the second 9 weeks) was astonishing. And the most incredible thing is how knowledge much we could actually retain covering material at this pace. The coursework is to credit for part of that, but arguably an even bigger part is the awesome instructors at Dev Bootcamp Seattle. Jordan has a knack for breaking down very complex material into concepts we could all understand. Anil is great at diving in-depth into just about anything in the realm of computer science. They have both been programming for years and are very knowledgeable.
I have talked to people at other bootcamps and to me, quality of instructors may be the BIGGEST DIFFERENTIATOR that Dev Bootcamp offers. Some other bootcamps have instructors that recently graduated the program. I definitely recommend you make this one of the most important criteria in choosing a bootcamp. Realize that all of the technical course material that any bootcamp offers can be found online, maybe not organized as well, but it's all there. Quality mentors are rare. Being able to ask a question and have it explained succinctly by someone that really knows what they're talking about could save you days or weeks of Googling. No joke.
Another big differentiator at Dev Bootcamp is the Engineering Empathy (EE) curriculum. EE teaches "soft skills" like communication and empathy. The session was once-weekly and we covered topics ranging from introversion/extroversion to microaggressions to teamwork. I thought this was a cool concept but did not expect it to be nearly as impactful as it was. I improved my communication skills a great deal during the course of the bootcamp. My wife and other people around me have noticed. This will not only help me at work (employers really value this stuff!) but also in life. It's an outcome I didn't expect, but I am supremely grateful for. In hindsight, engineering empathy is right up there with the technical skills for the most important things I learned at DBC.
There are other programs out there that offer an internship at the end, which is something that on its face seems very appealing. But realize these internships are not always extended and if they aren't paid, then you're kind of in the same position you would have been without the internship. The question is, would you rather have spent that extra 2 months at the end of the coursework building someone else's app or developing applications that are actually meaningful to you and including them in your portfolio?
After you graduate, DBC sticks with you. Lacey, the careers coordinator, emails us frequently with job opportunities and we also have regular 1 on 1 meetings to discuss the status of our search. You are also provided a lot of resources for making sure your resume and Linkedin are in top notch shape and preparing for technical interviews. Plus you're still able to use the space while working on apps for your portfolio after you graduate.
It is very clear to me Dev Bootcamp is invested in our success and that's what makes me want to spend time writing a review for them. Best of luck with your bootcamp search. At least go meet with Jared at Dev Bootcamp Seattle, you will not regret it.
How much does Dev Bootcamp cost?
Dev Bootcamp costs around $12,700.
What courses does Dev Bootcamp teach?
Dev Bootcamp offers courses like Web Development.
Where does Dev Bootcamp have campuses?
Dev Bootcamp has in-person campuses in Austin, Chicago, New York City, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Is Dev Bootcamp worth it?
Dev Bootcamp hasn't shared alumni outcomes yet, but one way to determine if a bootcamp is worth it is by reading alumni reviews. 153 Dev Bootcamp alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Dev Bootcamp on Course Report - you should start there!
Is Dev Bootcamp legit?
We let alumni answer that question. 153 Dev Bootcamp alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Dev Bootcamp and rate their overall experience a 4.33 out of 5.
Does Dev Bootcamp offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
Right now, it doesn't look like Dev Bootcamp offers scholarships or accepts the GI Bill. We're always adding to the list of schools that do offer Exclusive Course Report Scholarships and a list of the bootcamps that accept the GI Bill.
Can I read Dev Bootcamp reviews?
You can read 153 reviews of Dev Bootcamp on Course Report! Dev Bootcamp alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Dev Bootcamp and rate their overall experience a 4.33 out of 5.
Is Dev Bootcamp accredited?
While bootcamps must be approved to operate, accreditation is relatively rare. Dev Bootcamp doesn't yet share information about their accreditation status.
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