Devmountain

Pros:

I learned so much, so quickly. Seriously every day is just a firehose of knowledge and you are trying to catch as much of it as you can. In the past I finished my bachelors degree and this was so much more intense. The Instructors are so good and the mentors were always there to answer the questions I had. Also the Job preparation week and instruction was one of the most useful courses that I have ever participated in. I did get a job very quickly afterwards.

Cons:

You will have to work...HARD. There were so many nights that I stayed there until 9 or 10 at night. You need to have that expectation, so that you can be successful. Expect to struggle. You will have new concepts being thrown at you left and right, and the struggle is real, but totally worth it.

Enrolling in DevMountain was arguably the decision that has had the quickest impact on my career. I had zero experience with mobile development outside of being an avid consumer of the variety of applications.

DevMountain helped me start learning faster than any other method I had tried in the past. A ton of people argue that bootcamps are a waster of money when there are so many free resources available online. It is true that there is a lot of free resources out there, but nothing compares to the fast pace at which DevMountain kickstarted my learning!

DevMountain was the perfect enviornment for my learning style. This is the way I learn. With people in front of me, helping me, assisting me, pushing me, and getting my hands on actual real world projects. Learning side by side with other students. Not staring at a computer screen alone in my basement. 

The course is great for students who have the desire to learn. DevMountain helped me kickstart my mobile development career faster than any other way possible. Going from no development experience to having a mobile software developer job in 3 months is crazy. It was a hard challenge. On day 1 I gave myself the goal to do all the assignments and work and the curriculum. The course and my mentors/instructors showed me what was possible and through a ton of hard work, everything worked out for me in the end.

On the flip side, I saw a hand full of students in my class struggle because they weren't as dedicated. You have to want it.

If you are serious about changing your career or gaining valuable skills in tech, go to DevMountain.

I really enjoyed my time at DevMountain, and it's working out for me. I wanted a job as a front end developer or a UX designer, and I'm currently halfway through a UX design internship, and taking interviews for front end developer jobs.

Pros: The energy and excitement was palpable. The instructors really want you to succeed, and care about your success, especially if you are working hard, which they can tell if you are. The pace is so fast and the expectations are so high that you learn more than you ever could alone. Expect to put in 10-14 hour days. You have to really want to work in order for the experience to be positive, which I did, so I loved it. I got a job I wanted, and I think it was pretty much directly because of this bootcamp, and the work I put in after that was inspired by the work ethic I got from this place. I loved it.

Cons: It's expensive. Sometimes it feels overpriced. The mentors are all people who got hired from the previous classes (aka cohorts), so don't expect CS majors. They're green. Instructors are professionals, not professional teachers. You have to own your success. You have to be responsible for getting what you paid for. Seek out help, don't be shy, don't get discouraged. You will probably have one or two minor(ish) mental breakdowns while attending. Just keep perservering and you'll be amazed what you can accomplish, but expect it to be REALLY difficult at times.

Overall: It's by no means a guarantee, and judging from hearsay the numbers of their students who are employed are somewhat inflated. You have to work really, really hard while you're there, and then you have to keep working really, really hard afterwards, but for me this seems to have been a turning point in my career. Do it if you're hungry for it!

I did the part-time cohort in Provo, and it delivered on my expectations. I was hesistant going into it because I didn't know if part-time would help me as much as the full-time class. But looking back at it, the Part-time class was perfect for my situation. I wasn't looking for a job, but more so a training in code. I am a designer. I have focused on design my whole career and I wanted to understand how my designs from the perspective of code. After only a few weeks at DevMoutain's part-time class I was able to more effectively communicate and understand development. DevMountain gets you coding in week 1 and it doesn't stop there. You are continuously learning some front end or backend technology and it is challenging. But not hard enough that it pushed me over the edge, but just enough that it really made me think and dedicate time to learning. If you are going to take the part-time class, you have to dedicate "outside of class" time to your projects and learning. I am grateful I did, because now I understand how web applications work and have experience doing a ton of building. Every night I found myself writing code and on class nights I would be doing it with teachers and mentors. It really helped having people there who knew what they are doing. Especially when I got stuck. The mentors gave me context that I really couldn't find anywhere else. I seriously think without DevMountain I would still be in the same spot I was before -- trying to learn on my own and stuck on some stupid piece of code.

If you want a full time job in web development, I would probably reccommend that you dedicate a lot of time to learning through out the 16 weeks of the part time program. If you are paying for the 16 weeks, you need to take advanatage of those 16 weeks. I did, and it paid off. I 100% reccommend DevMountain.

DevMountain was a great experience. I learned more here, faster, than I could've in probably two years on my own, and came out of it making about twice what I was making before, doing something I love. The only reason I'm not giving 5 stars is because (when I went, over winter 2015-2016) the curriculum badly needed to be updated and made consistent. I've heard from later cohorts that they've put a lot of effort into that, though. I'd definitely recommend this place over just about any other bootcamp (I did my research beforehand and ruled out all others except for HackReactor and DevLeague).

I had very little coding experience before DevMountain. I was exposed to the atmosphere of hard and fun work when my husband was going through IOS program at the same school. I loved being around people that came to the bootcamp from various paths of life and worked their tails off to improve their coding skills and chances of getting a better job. I quickly decided that this was going to be the school I would join. I chose web development since I was more familiar with the languages and my journey began. 
   Every day was filled with hard work that was done under a cheerful supervision of mentors ready to help when you are stuck. The curriculum was pretty much magical. You know, the kinda magic that allows you to realize that with little to no experience you are able to build a whole app (front and backend) within a matter of 6 weeks!

The price was so worth it! Now, I still have access to all the lectures of the course, I can hang out at the campus if I want to work on a side project. I love hackathons that they organize for everyone that wants to join. Nice to see familiar faces. I love to belong to the  community DevMountain built. 

They also have an amazing course preparing you for job hunting that you take within the last week of a bootcamp. 

Anyways, I am just very grateful for the chance to be their student. Great staff, great course and great post-grad follow up.

I had a blast being a student, and now I have enough skills that got me a new job that I love!

I wanted to jumpstart a new career in programming, had started with self-study, etc, but wanted the direction and structure that DevMountain promised to provide. It turned out to be exactly what I needed and expected. 

I had previous programming experience, but nothing recent or relevant to what I wanted to do. I found the curriculum at the time to be just challenging enough, well-paced and useful. I also appreciated the fact that as I watched DevMountain over the next year I saw a great dedication on their part to improve, update curriculum, improve interactions with potential employers, and generally continue to increase the value of attending DevMountain. 

Most people in my cohort got development jobs very quickly. It took me a bit longer, but in the meantime, DevMountain developed and expanded their Employer Relations department to get more and better contacts with employers. I got my job as a direct result of those efforts, as they helped me make the right contact at the right company for me.

Overall, DevMountain wasn't perfect, the programming industry is (increasingly) fast-paced and fluid, and DevMountain is no exception, but it was perfect for me and what I needed and wanted.  DevMountain helped me develop the skills and network to start a new career which would have taken me much longer and cost a lot more money otherwise.

DevMountain proved to be a very illuminating and insightful experience. Prior to taking their WebDevelopment course I'd only designed very rudimentary web pages, using only HTML and a limited amount of CSS and Javascript. I'd tried teaching myself all the basics but without direction, It had proved to be very difficult. DevMountain was the perfect solution. They don't utilize the old fashion teaching method of throwing words at you until your brain shuts down, they teach for a small portion of the day and then spend they rest of the day assisting and facilitating you in actually applying the material that you've learned. That way the material actually sinks in.
   I will say this though, you will take from this course what you put into it. I spent 40-60 hours prior to the course working on the pre-course material that DevMountain will send to you after your application has been accepted. Then during the 3-month course I spent around 50-80 hours a week working on the material. Some of that was in class, but most of it was at home after class as I poured over resource after resource online. DevMountain provides very skilled mentors to help you understand the content on a more personal level, so the more you study during the course, the more you'll be able to utilize their assistance.
   If you're willing to commit the time, you will be successful. I am confident that anyone who is willing to do so, will have a great experience at DevMountain, and will come out of this course fully prepared to start a career in the the development world.

DevMountain provides an environment with the solid resources and accessible tools you can use to become a developer.  I'm currently a full-time junior working on enterprise architecture for some huge global brands.  Before that I made puppets for the animation industry.  You can make a career switch, trust me. 

Is it is easy? NO!  A resounding no.  It will probably be the hardest thing you've ever done in your life, from making the decision to attend, to actually going through the program and finally to nailing that sweet new job.  

The job process required hundreds of applications and a ton of "no thank you's."  Why?  Because there's still a (unfair and inaccurate) stigma associated with bootcamp style education.  And with more and more popping up, the ONLY thing you can do to set yourself apart is to work harder than the other guy.  I was not the best coder in my class, but here I am with an awesome job at an awesome company.  

Ignore the poor reviews, they come from entitled whiners who thought that the keys to a new career come on a silver platter.  It doesn't work like that.  But if you want a program where you can dig in and learn as much as you can handle about iOS, DevMountain Immersive is your best bet.