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Eleven Fifty Academy is a non-profit coding and cybersecurity bootcamp headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana offering a range of courses from 13-week full-time bootcamps to 26-week part-time programs. Eleven Fifty Academy is focused on helping aspiring career-starters with little to no experience as well as tech professionals seeking to enhance their skills. Each course provides a hands-on, project-centric teaching approach for students to grow their soft skills as well as their tech skills in a friendly, entrepreneurial-minded classroom environment. In-person classes are taught at the Indiana Wesleyan University building located at 3777 E Priority Way S Dr in Indianapolis.
The Software Development program teaches the skills and tools necessary to build full-stack web applications with C# and JavaScript using industry best practices. Students will practice version control with Git and GitHub while executing software engineering projects in an Agile development workflow. Upon graduation, students will demonstrate skills that range from software development patterns like model-view-controller (MVC) and web APIs to secure cloud deployment. Students will build a professional-grade portfolio to showcase their coding and collaboration skills throughout the course.
The Cybersecurity program teaches skills starting at basic networking and simple security techniques and finishing by defending systems from attack. Students will earn two industry-recognized CompTIA certifications throughout the Core program: Network+ and Security+. This is followed by industry-leading training via TryHackMe, a leading cyber security training platform where students will learn how to identify and respond to incidents, detect threats, and gather threat actor intelligence.
Eleven Fifty Academy offers career prep to their students, including finalizing portfolios, resume and LinkedIn assistance, and offering guidance on professional networking. All programs offered by Eleven Fifty Academy are continuously guided and critiqued by industry advisory boards composed of hiring managers, influencers, and decision makers within the tech ecosystem.
Eleven Fifty Academy offers a variety of funding options.
I just graduated from Eleven Fifty Academy last week and am overall happy with my experience. I have specific things I liked that I will talk about but I will also touch on some things I didn't like and wish I had known before I started in August to better prepare.
First things first is that I do have a paid internship lined up that I will be starting within the next month. I received the offer for this before the bootcamp was even finished. Full disclosure, getting the internshi...
I just graduated from Eleven Fifty Academy last week and am overall happy with my experience. I have specific things I liked that I will talk about but I will also touch on some things I didn't like and wish I had known before I started in August to better prepare.
First things first is that I do have a paid internship lined up that I will be starting within the next month. I received the offer for this before the bootcamp was even finished. Full disclosure, getting the internship had way more to do with my network, personality, and state grant that provides funding for training and employment than my technical training or Eleven Fifty's job placement.
I really enjoyed the cohort experience but it worked as well as it did because of the personalities in my cohort. The staff at Eleven Fifty is wonderful and I don't have any complaints about them other than that sometimes it seemed that they forgot that we are all adults. For example, there are 2 points throughout the bootcamp at which a student may be asked to leave the program due to poor performance. We had 2 students leave at the first checkpoint and there was no discussion in class about it until another student asked. I understand discretion, but at that point we had been there for 3 weeks and were starting to develop friendships. We wanted to know if we weren't going to see certain classmates again.
The curriculum was good and bad. The first 4 weeks of curriculum went fairly well but from there things fell apart in my opinion. The class dynamic still held on strong though and that made up for the curriculum short falls.
Eleven Fifty intentionally provides a lot of instruction at the beginning of the bootcamp and gradually lessens it so that you are teaching yourself at the end. This insures that you can be a lifelong learner and that you can work yourself through an issue when you are on the job. With our cohort though, it seemed less gradual and more abrupt. Our time with AJAX, Express, Mongo, React/Redux, and Angular could have been much more productive and meaningful if they had provided one day of instruction and 4 days of self-teaching for each of the topics instead of the way they chose to do it.
With that being said, no one ever gave me the impression that they would teach us "everything". They were very open about that from the start, I just didn't understand how that would play out and could have prepared more if I had. The full blame for this time is not on Eleven Fifty, however, as I had classmates who walked away from those weeks with a lot of knowledge and understanding, but there was still a good group of us who felt the opposite.
While Chris is absolutely amazing and incredibly helpful, I gave job assistance a 4 because Eleven Fifty does not guarantee you a job. For the price tag, it's hard to sign up for programs like these when the outcome is unsure. There is an expectation that the student be in control of their future but I know that this was hard for me to accept and almost stopped me from signing up. Chris provided a lot of assistance for me with my resume and organizing the grant requirements for my internship but I was never presented with an employment opportunity by him or anyone else at Eleven Fifty other than a fellow student. The mock interviews that you participate in can result in job offers but it only happens if that company is hiring and usually requires that you see the same company for your soft skills and technical mock interviews. This didn't work out for my cohort because of some students in the class not effectively preparing for the soft skills interview, which ruined it for the rest of us.
There were at least 2 students who received offers from mock interviews but in a cohort of 21 that isn't reassuring and only happened because their interviewers also asked technical questions during the soft skills interview. Perhaps the solution is to have the interviews last longer, be both soft skills and technical in one sitting, and happen twice throughout the bootcamp. That way students can see one employer at week 8 and another at week 12, if they don't get an offer from the first.
Again, overall I am happy with my experience I just would have liked for better outcomes for my classmates. There are about 20 of us who graduated and I know of 4 of us who have accepted job offers. Again, a large part of that falls to the individual students' shortfalls, but there is more that can be done to improve this. Some of the necessary steps to success were presented as though they were options and I think simply changing the language that is used can help a lot of students better prepare.
The big question is would I do it all again? The answer is yes, although I would buy additional resources for the subjects I mentioned above and probably try to spend even more time at school studying even though I put at least 2 extra hours in each day already.
John Qualls of Eleven Fifty Academy
President
Nov 08, 2017
Employed in-field | 81.0% |
Full-time employee | 75.0% |
Full-time apprenticeship, internship or contract position | 0.0% |
Short-term contract, part-time, or freelance | 0.0% |
Started a new company or venture after graduation | 0.0% |
Not seeking in-field employment | 0.0% |
Employed out-of-field | 0.0% |
Continuing to higher education | N/A |
Not seeking a job for health, family, or personal reasons | N/A |
Still seeking job in-field | 6.0% |
Could not contact | 13.0% |
How much does Eleven Fifty Academy cost?
Eleven Fifty Academy costs around $18,000. On the lower end, some Eleven Fifty Academy courses like Software Development 24-Week Bootcamp cost $15,000.
What courses does Eleven Fifty Academy teach?
Eleven Fifty Academy offers courses like Cybersecurity 13-Week Bootcamp, Cybersecurity 26-Week Bootcamp, Software Development 13-Week Bootcamp, Software Development 24-Week Bootcamp.
Where does Eleven Fifty Academy have campuses?
Eleven Fifty Academy has in-person campuses in Indianapolis. Eleven Fifty Academy also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.
Is Eleven Fifty Academy worth it?
The data says yes! In 2018, Eleven Fifty Academy reported a 100% graduation rate, a median salary of $51,750, and 81% of Eleven Fifty Academy alumni are employed. Eleven Fifty Academy hasn't shared alumni outcomes yet, but one way to determine if a bootcamp is worth it is by reading alumni reviews. 147 Eleven Fifty Academy alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Eleven Fifty Academy on Course Report - you should start there!
Is Eleven Fifty Academy legit?
We let alumni answer that question. 147 Eleven Fifty Academy alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Eleven Fifty Academy and rate their overall experience a 4.71 out of 5.
Does Eleven Fifty Academy offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
Yes, Eleven Fifty Academy accepts the GI Bill!
Can I read Eleven Fifty Academy reviews?
You can read 147 reviews of Eleven Fifty Academy on Course Report! Eleven Fifty Academy alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Eleven Fifty Academy and rate their overall experience a 4.71 out of 5.
Is Eleven Fifty Academy accredited?
While bootcamps must be approved to operate, accreditation is relatively rare. Eleven Fifty Academy doesn't yet share information about their accreditation status.
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