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Elium Academy

Average Rating4.45
23 Reviews
1 Course
Elium Academy offers 13-week, full-stack coding bootcamps in Brussels, Belgium. There are three tracks - a corporate track, a startup track, and a leadership track. All tracks cover JavaScript with either NodeJS or Java, as well as Agile methodologies. The corporate track is designed for complete beginners and career changers who want to get jobs as developers. The startup track is aimed at beginners who want to launch their own startup or lead a development team, and...
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  • Anja Wodrich
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    Web Developer • Graduate • Node.js Web Development • Brussels
    Dec 25, 2017
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    Full Stack Web Development Course - Elium Academy

    I have chosen the Full Stack Web Development course of Elium due to all those good reviews this Academy received. The teachers were very friendly and also quite skillful, considering that none of them had any working experience in Web Development. The price of this bootcamp, compared to others, as i.e. General Assembly in London, Coding Academy in Barcelona or Spiced Academy in Berlin, seems very attractive. Hence my choice of this course.

    However, after 3 months of course, no st...

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    Evan Cole of Elium Academy

    Instructor

    Jan 31, 2018

    Dear Anonymous,

    I'm sorry you had this experience with Elium Academy.  I would like to personally apologize for your experience in my class and offer you my continued support. There are, however, some points in your review I think are inaccurate or I would like to clarify.

    We operate our courses similar to the Coders and Founders academy, we bring back alumni from previous courses to help teach and mentor the next class.  This approach has three main benefits for students: cost, community, relevancy. It would raise the price of tuition significantly should we hire professional developers as teachers, without an equal rise in the quality of education. What's important for a bootcamp are the skills you are taught, but more importantly how well they are taught.  Professional developers will have the skills that we teach, but it's a very rare developer that is also a good teacher and is willing to take the pay cut necessary to provide you an affordable course. 

    We therefore include professionals by asking them to take on mentoring roles and to participate in design of the curriculum, especially with the selection of primary learning objectives (you can read more about this on our blog: http://elewa.education/2018/01/20/solution-design/). Instead of professionals as teachers we use experienced instructors and recent alumni, there's no one better to understand a student's situation than a recent alumni. For these reasons, we are also very excited to bring on George as our newest full-time instructor. He fits all of these criteria: he was among the best students in our last cohort and has a professional background in education.

    To your portfolio comment, I'm sorry you were not able to develop your full portfolio during the bootcamp. I can confidently say that all students who worked on their portfolios and regularly engaged with our mentors have ended up with partial yet presentable portfolios. We provide you with all the tools to succeed, its you who has to use them. By now all of our engaged alumni either have completed their portfolio or have found a position as a full-time developer or intern. 

    I also don't believe that completing a professional level developer portfolio in 10 weeks is a realistic goal for students entering with little to no experience, nor that it is a measure of a course's success.  Student growth should be the measure of success, and not all students who enter our course are capable of leaving with a robust portfolio. We like to make our course open to students of all levels rather than filter out students that will not boost our exit statistics. 

    The claim that we did not have lectures on React is false.  We did have a short series of lectures on React, and provided a React mentor who was available to students whenever they needed.  Many students benefited from his help, one student even worked on several components for a SAAS company with him.  He will be available again for the course beginning in April. 

    I'd like to conclude with the steps we are taking to make our coming course in April better than ever. We recently partnered with an organization called Elewa, providing us with solid frameworks in which we can effectively deliver 21st century education. We now have even more mentors, deeper curricula in both React and now also Angular, a stronger introductory sequence and a curriculum that is very student centered giving you the power over the direction you want to take. We also have much stronger job support  both in the corporate as startup world thanks to Elewa's strong connection with the HR industry in Belgium.  You can see more recent reviews and several portfolios on our partner's site: http://elewa.education/fullstack

    I'm once again sorry for your experience, and I'm open to have a discussion over Skype or in person to go over it with you and provide you with continued support.  We can only continue to improve with constructive criticism and alumni involvement.  You know where to find me :)


    Kind Regards,

    Evan Cole 

    Instructor at Elium/Elewa 
  • Kesse
    Kesse
    Solution Architect • Graduate • Node.js Web Development • Brussels
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    Jan 24, 2018
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    FullStack Web Development

    Prior to joining Elium Academy, I was working in a multi-national company as a Solution Architect. I decided to learn Full-stack Web Development to improve my technical skills and gain a fresh perspective in modern coding practices as well as to expand my network and I got just that!.

    This has been one of my valuable investments as it has given me a jumpstart to explore new areas in my career path as well as create new opportunities for me to gracefully transition into starting m...

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  • Steven
    Steven
    CEO • Growth Hacking • Brussels
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    Feb 21, 2017
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    CEO Earnieland

    Hi i'm Steven, founder of Earnieland, the Robin Hood of the e-commerce. As a startup we spend already a lot of money via normal advertising campaigns to reach the smart online shoppers. We learned that word of mouth and referrals are the best to acquire customers. But there is a lot of noise, rumour and competition out there. In order to create the lowest customer acquisition cost, we need to growthhack things. So we decided to do this growthhack accademy. Together with 3 skilled people in...

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  • Filippo
    Filippo
    junior developer • Graduate • Full Stack Web Development (Part-Time) • Brussels
    Feb 05, 2018
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    Learned great study skills

    The projects seemed very simple, but when I started asking for more guidance I could see how they were actually very well designed.  The projects in the curriculum were never flashy, but they taught me very important lessons about software development like reading and writing specifications, separation of concerns, modular architecture, and user-focused design.  If I hadn't been asking for help and trying to build the projects like I was supposed to (instead of just making them work) they ...

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  • George Ingram
    George Ingram
    Graduate
    Jan 22, 2018
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    Amazing curriculum

    I enjoyed my time learned so much at Elium Academy.  Elium’s lessons and examples during the boot camp prepared my for my junior developer role. The program prepared me for my future role  by teaching me how read specs, write clean readable code and working with other developers. All the concepts I learned were applicable to most parts of programming. More importantly many of the things I learned in the first 6 weeks of the boot camp were the same task’s that my job requires me to do.

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  • samuel
    samuel
    Graduate • Node.js Web Development • Brussels
    Jan 20, 2018
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    Nice teachers

    I was in the september 2017 cohort of elium acadamy and I had a great experience. Classmates and teachers were good, everyone was motivated to learn and I personally learned a lot and made some very good friends.

    This program would equip you will the tools needed to become a full-stack web developer and ur programming confidence and the ability to structure your codes would be better by the time you have finished the proogram.

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  • Simas
    Simas
    student • Student • Node.js Web Development • Brussels
    Aug 13, 2017
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    Ex-student at Full Stack Web Dev Course

    I was student at Elium Full Stack Web Dev Course. I highly recommend the course. The quality / price rate is enormous. I would recommend the course for anyone who wants to make a career shift or wants to launch his own product. At the end of the course I was able to create my own platform for the business idea I had. I was mentoring by Evan, George and Laurens and all of them were great at teaching as well as helping out when I got stuck.

    I wouldn't recommend it for someone who i...

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  • Nicole
    Nicole
    Student • Node.js Web Development • Brussels
    Mar 13, 2017
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    Entrepreneur & coding

    Elium academy is a real bootcamp, very though but worth it! You progress extremly fast if you put in the hard work! Study before, do an online course if you can, HTML, CSS, JS basic are a must have. A plus if you can study a bit Node, Express and React a bit before. The teachers will push you very hard. To keep up, you must understand the concepts really fast but do not worry if you are behind they will be there for you to catch up!  Elium is also unique becau...

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  • Olivier
    Olivier
    Junior consultant • Applicant • Growth Hacking • Brussels
    Feb 20, 2017
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    Really cool experience ! Rewarding

    I was one of the student of the previous growth hacking bootcamp !

    My name is olivier and during my training at the elium academy, we had to face a acquisition challenge for a company. 

    Me and my team learnt a lot about the basics of growth hacking and we used a lot hacking tools that were incredible to face our challenge. Personnaly, I wanted to tackle a new challenge after my degree in business ingineering and my profezionnal experience. I think this bootcamp was the ...

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  • Maxime
    Maxime
    Graduate • Growth Hacking • Brussels
    Feb 17, 2017
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    Great price, great resources for learning and even better people!

    I don't know what's better - the community and environment you're part of, or how much you actually learn thanks to the availability and knowledgability of the mentors.

     

    I was looking for a short, intensive and hands-on training to acquire some marketing skills and maybe even enter the new exciting field of growth hacking. Elium seemed to offer precisely what I was looking for so I applied.

    The price tag was more than reasonable so I had my doubts but a few w...

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  • Aloise
    Aloise
    Graduate • Growth Hacking • Brussels
    Feb 17, 2017
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    Elium changed my life

    Hi, 

    I am Aloise, graduated student from the Growth hacking bootcamp, organized by Elium Academy. 

    This experience allowed me to become a growth hacker in 3 months: before starting, I only had few knowledge of what it was. During those 3 months, I met some difficulties, it was intense, but at the end, it was an exceptional challenge with passionate mentors who helped me to get the most out of my experience. 

    Now, I am able to build my own MVP. Even if I am aut...

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  • Mehdi
    Mehdi
    Growth Hacking internship. • Brussels
    Feb 17, 2017
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    An incredible team and environment

    A fantastic experience!

    I can only speak as an intern of the company, though all the students I have spoken to are very happy with their decision to follow a bootcamp at Elium. :)

    The mentors and the founders of the company I work with on a daily basis are among the most competent (and funny!) people I've ever met ; to learn from them is a real privilege. Every day is a challenge, there are lots of things to learn, and I couldn't believe the confidence and trust they al...

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  • Sam
    Sam
    Graduate • Node.js Web Development • Brussels
    Dec 16, 2016
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    Chuffed

    TLDR

    I learnt a lot and now I have a job

    More in depth

    I worked hard before the course to do the pre-requisites. I worked really hard during the course to complete everything.

    It wasn't easy but the mentors challenged and helped me. Ultimately you get out what you put in.

    Before Applying

    DO NOT TAKE ANY COURSE IF YOU HAVE  NEVER TRIED CODING. Some students joined who had never c...

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How much does Elium Academy cost?

Elium Academy costs around $3,500.

What courses does Elium Academy teach?

Elium Academy offers courses like Node.js Web Development.

Where does Elium Academy have campuses?

Elium Academy has an in-person campus in Brussels.

Is Elium Academy worth it?

Elium Academy hasn't shared alumni outcomes yet, but one way to determine if a bootcamp is worth it is by reading alumni reviews. 23 Elium Academy alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Elium Academy on Course Report - you should start there!

Is Elium Academy legit?

We let alumni answer that question. 23 Elium Academy alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Elium Academy and rate their overall experience a 4.45 out of 5.

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You can read 23 reviews of Elium Academy on Course Report! Elium Academy alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Elium Academy and rate their overall experience a 4.45 out of 5.

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