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Flatiron School offers immersive on-campus and online programs in software engineering, data science, cybersecurity, and product design (UX/UI design). Flatiron School’s immersive courses aim to launch students into fulfilling careers by providing a robust career services framework and dedicated one-on-one coaching post graduation that is included as an added value with the tuition.
The application process asks prospective students to share a bit about themselves and what is driving them to start a career. The process includes speaking with an Admissions representative in a non-technical interview to allow for the opportunity to get to know each other better in a friendly conversation. Applicants will also need to complete a 15-minute critical thinking and problem-solving assessment afterwards. Applicants will receive an acceptance decision from Admissions within 4 business days of completing the assessment.
Flatiron School’s Career Services team provides weekly 1:1 career coaching sessions, mock interviews, and access to an extensive employer network to help students launch fulfilling careers in tech after graduation.
Flatiron School powers the Access Scholarship which invested $1.5 million into the futures of more than 500 students across all of Flatiron School’s campuses and online courses in 2020. The Access Scholarship opens doors for aspiring innovators who may have experienced barriers to education. To build a more diverse and inclusive tech community, Flatiron School has awarded over $10 million in scholarships for women, minorities, veterans, and other underrepresented groups in tech.
Flatiron School was one of the first bootcamps in the industry and a pioneer in providing 3rd party examined job placement reports. Read their full independently-examined jobs reports at: https://flatironschool.com/jobs-reports/
I felt like they could have done a better job with filtering the job leads they had, providing a more conducive environment for learning (way too loud) and provided regular in-depth code review.
Are you seeking a career change? Have you been lured by promises of better compensation and opportunity? Don't be fooled by individuals from the placement-team who will tout falsified job placement percentages as evidence of better professional outcomes. The entire team at Flatiron School, from executive and management to placements and instructors, have absolutely no idea what's going on, and as long as they're getting your money by selling you on the hope of a new career, the...
Are you seeking a career change? Have you been lured by promises of better compensation and opportunity? Don't be fooled by individuals from the placement-team who will tout falsified job placement percentages as evidence of better professional outcomes. The entire team at Flatiron School, from executive and management to placements and instructors, have absolutely no idea what's going on, and as long as they're getting your money by selling you on the hope of a new career, they don't care.
My experience with this bootcamp can be summed up as follows:
Attending Flatiron School was the single most disastrous professional and financial decision I've ever made.
For months prior to making the decision to attend a bootcamp, I spent time doing my due diligence and actually spoke with grads and the placements team before applying, and I was assured that job prospects were "good" and that "industry relationships" were abundant. This was the sole reason I was willing to pay an exorbitant fee for a skill I could have learned from books and videos online, however by all appearances myself and my entire class have been misled.
After an interval greater than most individual's job search, Flatiron's placement numbers have been inflated by hiring individuals from my class as instructors but other individuals in my class have received very little in the way of placement assistance.
Pros & Cons
Pros:
1. Free coffee
2. Better Teaching of Standards of Practice/Third Party Libraries
3. "Cool" people (that is, until you start asking for help)
4. Happy hours/feelings sessions
5. If you're really lucky (or a sycophant) you might get a job as an instructor after graduating
Cons:
1. We're provided with "interviews" during our second to last week for positions that don't actually exist at the companies that come in.
2. There is no proportionate representation of candidates in the placements process. Some of my classmates had received 4-5 interviews while others received none within months of "graduating."
3. We're told to accept whatever positions are available regardless of compensation, benefits, or opportunity for advancement.
4. Curriculum is disorganized: Many lessons depended on understanding principles or concepts that would only be taught later.
5. Instructors available for help are composed of the last cohort's lucky chosen placement rate inflaters and don't have any actual professional experience.
Remember, for every good review you see on here, there is a bias because students are threatened with retribution for criticism or bad reviews. For every bad review you see on here, there are probably a dozen other students who feel similarly but are unable to say so because they're desperate for any help after spending 3 months and 15k on a program.
Personally, I've been struggling for more than a reasonable interval to find consistent, well-paying work. The time and finacial investment required and subsequent failure to find work ended a long term relationship. Maintaining a flexible schedule for interviews that never seem to happen means I can't find consistent, steady-paying work in other fields.
My advice to those of you who are considering a switch to a programming vocation: buy some books (Big Nerd Ranch et al.), watch videos (UDEMY, TeamTreeHouse, etc), and develop your own projects instead of making the mistake I made by trusting the paid representatives of a bootcamp.
This is an honest and sincere review with the only intention to inform others about a very real experience.
I had zero code review. ZERO. I asked for it many times, never got it.
My classmates were either completely drunk or 100% independent didn't-want-to-work-with-anyone types, except for one. I am still friends with the one classmate that wasn't like this.
This place was extremely noisy the entire time, and the teachers regularly would get a TA to take...
This is an honest and sincere review with the only intention to inform others about a very real experience.
I had zero code review. ZERO. I asked for it many times, never got it.
My classmates were either completely drunk or 100% independent didn't-want-to-work-with-anyone types, except for one. I am still friends with the one classmate that wasn't like this.
This place was extremely noisy the entire time, and the teachers regularly would get a TA to take their place when they were too hungover to come in and teach. This happened *many* times.
All of the staff and most of the classmates seemed to care much more about the world sport tournament that was blasted every day on the giant projector screen in the main room (where all of the students had to be all day, every day) than they did about helping their students being able to complete their assignments. I was definitely not the only person that felt this way.
They make incredible claims about job placement. Then, 2 weeks before the end of the program, they pretty much tell you to take whatever job you can get, even if it's free or minimum wage.
Of the 3 leads they gave me, two were 100% non-code related, and the 3rd never got back to me even though they liked me a lot (they realized they needed someone that wasn't a bootcamp grad)
This left me with an extremely bitter taste in my mouth. Their job leads program clearly did not do their due diligence in finding quality leads. I did not approve of Flatiron including me in their "success" category when it came to their job placement rates, yet they hold those numbers close and I have no control over it.
What's worse, is that the final project they gave my group was poorly scoped too. We were not allowed to pick our team-mates or project topic, so the arrogant member of the team kept deleting our code that he didn't like (who does that?!) and when our attempts to remedy the issue failed, the staff wouldn't do anything to mitigate the issue.
If you want to attend any bootcamp, my advice is this:
-Don't believe anything about job placement rates or leads.
-Ask dozens of questions. Take everything with a grain of salt.
-Ask to see the real data on the percent of graduates that are placed in FULL-TIME JOBS WITH BENEFITS within 6 months and what ***THEIR*** starting pay was.
-Be overly-prepared for the beginning of the program. Most claim you don't need to know any code at all, but really you should. You'll suffer if you don't. Start teaching yourself. Start with Codecademy, then graduate to CodeSchool, Pluralsight, Treehouse, Udacity, and/Or something else that is free/cheap. Once you've exhausted those resources, then consider a bootcamp if you are still interested.
-Attend a bootcamp *only* in the city where you will stay and seek employment
-You only should attend a bootcamp if you're way too lazy to teach yourself using free tools online. Most people are. However, you should at least try this path first.
If you venture down this path, expecting a bootcamp to teach you a little bit about a lot of things in a very short amount of time, and do absolutely nothing else for you, then you'll be happy with your experience. If you expect a bootcamp to give you extensive code review (absolutely necessary to hone your skillset), find you a good job with good pay and help you have something incredible in your portfolio to show to prospective employers, you might be terribly disappointed. I was.
Again, I wrote this to provide an honest review explaining my personal experience. I learned a lot, but I didn't get half as much out of the program as I could have if they cared about my concerns listed above. This was a couple years ago now, maybe they've improved? They probably have. I can't imagine I'm the only one that had an experience like this.
Reader should keep in mind that most graduates don't want to leave negative reviews about the bootcamp they attended because they are still relying on the bootcamp to help them find employment. It's twisted. You can't find much credible negative information online regarding bootcamps.
Find a few graduates of *the* program you're considering taking at the bootcamp you want to attend, email them or find them on LinkedIn, and ask them lots of questions. This is how you will get an honest review.
Note: I intentionally altered the month/year that I graduated from the program because I'd rather not have this come back to bite me because my classmate was scolded by a staff member for his review on a different platform.
I really enjoyed the free Intro to Ruby course they use as a preview for the full $1500/mo course. Actually, that price changed three times in the 3 months I was a "Learner" (it was initially $1000/mo, then split into $500 or $1000, then raised to $1500).
The Slack community is enjoyable with fun and hard working people chatting throughout the day. And the Flatiron founder Avi was quite active.
Unlike the free course, there are no video lectures for each lesson in the ...
I really enjoyed the free Intro to Ruby course they use as a preview for the full $1500/mo course. Actually, that price changed three times in the 3 months I was a "Learner" (it was initially $1000/mo, then split into $500 or $1000, then raised to $1500).
The Slack community is enjoyable with fun and hard working people chatting throughout the day. And the Flatiron founder Avi was quite active.
Unlike the free course, there are no video lectures for each lesson in the full version, it's all text. After a few hundred of those, I got the feeling like this was basically a very expensive version of Code School/Codecademy/etc. When I had questions, the TA chat response time was around 30 minutes, which was way longer than it was in the free course (5 minutes tops, usually instant). Also, there are only 6 times were your code will be reviewed by someone. That's a terrible value and you will not feel confident that you are writing solid code even if you're passing the tests.
The worst part is that the slower you go, the more it'll cost. Also, just as others have posted here, the general advice they have is for you to take the first job you're offered regardless of the pay. Even paid internships. If you dig deeper into their Jobs Report, you'll find that the awesome numbers they report for salary and placement are for folks who received full time jobs, but many students don't, thus they aren't included as to not bring down the numbers. If you're like me, who has a family to support, a temporary, lowly paid internship is not what I envisioned when investing in the program.
I really wanted to love this program. My heart was set on completing it after interacting with the Slack community. I ignored my common sense when I learned that there would only be 6 code reviews. I ignored my common sense when I saw that the full version contained no video lectures and I was just reading GitHub Readme's that seemed similar to free content I'd found elsewhere online. I was blinded by my hope for a high salary and a better life.
That blindness cost me big bucks. I hope you will take this review to heart and let your common sense prevail.
tl;dr: I attended The Flatiron School's online program, Learn Verified, from January to April, 2016. I worked freelance/contracting gigs for a bit, then finally landed a full-time job as a web developer in September 2016.
The Long Story
I have been writing code forever, but I've had relatively little formal education in it. As 2015 drew to a close, I was in a bad spot and I needed a dramatic change. My job sucked. I had no money and no p...
tl;dr: I attended The Flatiron School's online program, Learn Verified, from January to April, 2016. I worked freelance/contracting gigs for a bit, then finally landed a full-time job as a web developer in September 2016.
The Long Story
I have been writing code forever, but I've had relatively little formal education in it. As 2015 drew to a close, I was in a bad spot and I needed a dramatic change. My job sucked. I had no money and no prospects for getting any. I didn't have any self-confidence, really, or maybe I just didn't feel like I had a place in the world. Things now are incredible. But I'm already getting ahead of myself.
For the past year or 18 months, I'd been teaching myself to code, but it was a really unfocused effort. I did a million tutorials. I took a few edX courses. But I didn't really feel like I was making a lot of forward progress. I started researching bootcamps. I live in the Austin, TX area and there are actually quite a few in-person bootcamps, but they've all got a hefty price tag - well north of $10k. I quickly ruled that out. I started reading about online bootcamps, and to be perfectly honest, they seemed like a little too good to be true. Looking back, I think it was the combination of desperation and motivation which made me even consider it in the first place. I liked that Flatiron offered a 'monthly subscription' payment model, which would further encourage me to crank through the coursework. I'd recently received my tax return and had some meager savings, so I needed to plow through the material and get a job ASAP. I quit my job and enrolled. A 'sink or swim' or 'do or die' type of situation might not appeal to you, but it was what I needed.
I think this past programming knowlege was the fulcrum, with Flatiron the lever which allowed me to succeed. I couldn't have done it with only one half of that equation. Over the course of months, I witnessed many, many students just failing to comprehend a lot of the concepts in the course. I think it might be disengenuous to imply that in only 12 weeks, a person can go from only a casual experience in writing code to a person who is hireable; even as a 'junior developer.' If you have very little or no software development experience and you're considering a coding bootcamp, I'd encourage you to spend a good amount of time doing independent study beforehand. Remember, Flatiron advertises some pretty impressive job placement rates, but that definitely is predicated upon you actually finishing the course. I would estimate that the washout rate is quite high. Additionally, take a close look at the terms of service: Your work is far, FAR from done once you graduate.
After completing the coursework, I hustled a little and got a couple part-time/contract gigs, one of which *REALLY* saved me from putting in an application at Best Buy or The Home Depot. I owe a *lot* to that employer; it wasn't the best arrangement, by far, but it allowed me to keep my head above water. If you're considering quitting your job to do a coding bootcamp, make absolutely sure you can foot the bill: I'd try to plan to have 3-6 months of expenses *after* you complete the program. Engaging in a full-scale job hunt while at the same time working a lousy retail job doesn't sound like my cup of tea, and that doesn't take into account writing blog posts, working on side projects to get your github profile looking attractive, etc. It's really hard. If you can do it, I would suggest you see if you can keep your current job or work reduced hours while you work through the course.
The Curriculum
The curriculum isn't the best, but it's not the worst, either. A lot of the stuff at the beginning is really good, but that's because it's been combed through by a lot more people, but that shouldn't really count for anything, because there are a million and one entry-level tutorials out there. The more advanced topics (Javascript/Angular) were really, really, REALLY lacking. Also, because much of the material was still being produced as I was completing the program (I think the online program launched about 3 months before I enrolled), none of the tutors really had any experience with the material. They could answer questions about Tic-Tac-Toe all day long without breaking a sweat, but when you've got questions about Angular's directives vs components, well... good luck.
I think that the main benefit of the curriculum, at least for me, was that it provided me a good roadmap for the knowledge I needed to follow. First procedural Ruby, then SQL (I think), then OOP with Ruby, then Rails, then jQuery with Rails, etc. I really felt carried along in my learning. That is, like I said, until the later part of the course. I swear, I'm done with Angular 1.x, like, for life.
Student Support
I started the program pretty early on. Avi, the school's dean, was pretty available most of the time (that dude is a machine; I wonder if he sleeps). The tutors were hit or miss, lots of times they were previous graduates of the in-person program, and when I was going through, the curriculum had grown significantly since they had finished. There wasn't a lot of help. Additionally, since they valued a 'community' of self-support (hard to get when you're at the leading edge of the program like I was, with only three or four students ahead of me), they resisted putting together any kind of 'knowledge base' which you could reference. This reliance on 'asking if you need help' is a two-edged sword, because a lot of the students never got in the habit of researching the answers for themselves. After all, you can just hit the 'ask a question' button and someone will help you out! Not a good way to breed self-reliance in a developer. Nowadays, I probably spend an hour or two a day just Googling stuff. I can ask my mentor, but he's got his own work to do, know what I mean?
I do wish there were more opportunities for code review. I had three or four, I believe, and only one of them was really in-depth. Maybe it was because I was clearly 'getting it' and didn't need advice, but I know that my code style was pretty naive and I could've used more direction in that regard. Plus, as you get further into the program, a lot of issues are not really suited for an 'ask a question' sort of venue. If you're having difficulty understanding asynchronous javascript, what you really need is for someone to sit down with you for 20 minutes and work it all out with you. The tutors are all answering a handful of questions at once, jumping back and forth from you to any number of other students. It can make what would be a simple exchange a pretty drawn-out process.
Job Search
Looking for a job as a fresh bootcamp graduate was one of the most humbling and difficult things I've ever done in my life. Face it, bootcamps don't have a great reputation for churning out well-qualified coders. My city has a decent 4-year school with a good CS program, PLUS three or four in-person bootcamps. The market is pretty close to saturated. You've got to be a real self-starter, super positive (but not like, "crazy" positive) person. You've got to be the kind of person that people want to work with every day. I'm a little older (39 this summer), so I've had plenty of experience working, and a good amount of experience on the 'other' side of hiring and interviewing. That experience has given me a good perspective into the nature of work, what makes a good hire, how to conduct yourself in an interview, etc. I think that if you are lacking in technical ability (and let's be honest here, if you complete a coding bootcamp, you are really only barely hireable, skills-wise), you've got to be a 'right fit' kind of hire - good attitude, ready for a challenge, eager to learn, etc. You've also got to be lucky enough to find a firm who is willing to invest a *LOT* of time and money in growing you as a developer. I'm about 5 months in now, and every day is still a challenge. I'm *really* slow still, but I get there in the end.
Wrapping Up
In some ways, I feel a little bad about not giving Flatiron a 5-star review. After all, I achieved my goal. I'm living the dream. I have a well-paying job with great coworkers, plenty of opportunity for learning and growth. My job gave me a new Macbook Pro :) I get to write code all day long. I wake up every day excited to go to work, and I dream about code every night. But the reality is that *I* did it. I made a decision to change my life, and I used the tools I could find. Was Flatiron the perfect tool for that job? Probably not, but honestly I'm not sure what it would've looked like. I value that experience and knowledge that Flatiron gave me. I'd probably do the same thing if I had the chance to do it over (but, like high school, who would really want to do that?). I can't tell you if a coding bootcamp, or the Flatiron School in particular are right for you. I *can* tell you that it'll be pretty tough. It'll test your self-esteem and your dedication. It'll make you push yourself. Maybe that's what you need. It's what I needed. Good luck.
My take on the Flatiron School
I was a student at The Flatiron School for their immersive iOS program and I do not recommend this school. I had to make sure I graduated before I left this review because if they found out that I wrote a negative review while I was a student, there would have been retribution against me and they would have made my life miserable.
The job placement numbers are complete BS
They make misleading st...
My take on the Flatiron School
I was a student at The Flatiron School for their immersive iOS program and I do not recommend this school. I had to make sure I graduated before I left this review because if they found out that I wrote a negative review while I was a student, there would have been retribution against me and they would have made my life miserable.
The job placement numbers are complete BS
They make misleading statements about job placements. Perhaps I am naive, but I believed the numbers I got from the Flatiron reps and what I found on Course Report were accurate. The Flatiron School reports that 95 % of their grads are hired in technical roles with 120 days and report an average salary of $74, 447. This couldn’t be further from the truth! They suggested I even try to find some entry level position even if it was at minimum wage. I couldn’t believe this. I really felt that I was lied to. I still am in touch with several of my cohort mates and many of them are still looking for work, 6 months after graduating. As another reviewer noted – “2 weeks before the end of the program, they pretty much tell you to take whatever job you can get, even if it's free or minimum wage”.
The iOS program
Their main program is Web development and Ruby on Rails and you can tell that their web cohort receives a lot more attention than the iOS guys. Their iOS curriculum is also not well thought out and rushes through the topics without going into any depth which I realized when I started interviewing. And their teachers lack professional experience. Code reviews is another thing that this school lacks. Keep these also in mind if you’re considering their iOS bootcamp. So in my opinion all this was definitely not worth the 15k that I spent.
Thankfully I read the Terms and Conditions. Anyone can cancel within 14 days of their first payment for a full refund.
I did Learn.co Online for the free 2 weeks, enjoyed it, got some help when I got stuck, then paid $1000/month ($750 with the discount) for the "real course".
I requested a full refund after 12 days. I have done Team Treehouse Ruby on Rails, Codeacademy Ruby on Rails & HTML & CSS, 25% of FreeCodeCamp.com, a Java course on Udemy by a C...
Thankfully I read the Terms and Conditions. Anyone can cancel within 14 days of their first payment for a full refund.
I did Learn.co Online for the free 2 weeks, enjoyed it, got some help when I got stuck, then paid $1000/month ($750 with the discount) for the "real course".
I requested a full refund after 12 days. I have done Team Treehouse Ruby on Rails, Codeacademy Ruby on Rails & HTML & CSS, 25% of FreeCodeCamp.com, a Java course on Udemy by a Cal Poly SLO Instructor, read half of Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial, and read half of Head Start Javascript. I didn't finish most, more dabbled to see if programming was truly what I wanted to do with my career. That is why I chose to pay $1000 to Learn.co to get me to the next level.
I am an experienced online learner. I am an experienced yet still beginner programmer.
Learn.co explained to me that they "do not spoon feed their programmers", yet if I was a beginner, with zero experience, you need to spoon feed me until I can figure out the rest! They expect you to know what answer theyre looking for, without giving enough content to ever get there!
The course expects you to know things that are never taught. Even as someone who has taken classes, I got stuck regularly because the directions were not clear, the answer was hard to achieve given the content provided, and worst of all....
When you get stuck, there is a chat to the right, yet expect to wait 10-30 mins or sometimes a full day for any response! And that response will be garbage 75% of the time. Often I get one response, Hey, how can I help? Then I explain, then I wait 20 minutes for a response! What else are these chat support doing? Checking their email between each response they send?? SO frustrating.
I would ask a question, and only one time out of the umpteen times I asked questions did I get a professional, helpful, well explained answer. The people answering q's are grad of Flatiron School, the same crappy curriculum, and so they too, are crappy teachers. Which only allowed Learn.co students like myself, to learn crappy programming.
What a waste of time which is a waste of money. This is why I chose to go forward with the much better acclaimed Udacity Nanodegree Full Stack Web Development which also has a job/money back guarantee, and is $300/month. Why spend $1000 and get terrible content, support, and skills, when you can spend $300/month, and get great contant, support, and skills. and a job!
Learn.co is a waste of time. They probably want you to waste time, because hey, the more time it takes you to finish the course, the more you wait for Learn.co support when you are stuck, the longer it will take you to finish the course and the more months of payment you will incur.
Do yourself a favor. Quit now. Stop wasting time waiting for support and money that is better spent elsewhere.
Everything went fine in the applicatioin process until they found out I was over 40. Then they were very rude and condescending towards me. So much for diversity. All their talk of bieng able to teach anyone to code is just marketing hype. They are more interested in being politicaly correct and catering to females and minorities as they are given preferential treatement in the applicaiton process. Being over 40 I am definitely an underepresented minority but they clearly discriminate agai...
Everything went fine in the applicatioin process until they found out I was over 40. Then they were very rude and condescending towards me. So much for diversity. All their talk of bieng able to teach anyone to code is just marketing hype. They are more interested in being politicaly correct and catering to females and minorities as they are given preferential treatement in the applicaiton process. Being over 40 I am definitely an underepresented minority but they clearly discriminate against age. I ended up teaching myself by taking udemy courses and Udacity at a fraction of the cost and now after 6 months of experience am making 85k as a fullstack web developer in the New York City Area. So save yourself some money and humilitaion and stay away from these hypocrites and teach yourself online.
Perfect in every possible sense. How could I not say it was the best decision of my life considering I completely changed industries and was placed into a higher payng job that I love? If you can get in, you'd be nuts to attend any other coding school. Period.
For perspective, began in November 2015 and am now nearly finished with the curriculum.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my experience with the Flatiron School's Learn Verified Program. The platform of learn.co itself is great. From day one, everything you are doing with your time is real, actual work. You always work in a real dev environment, and push all your code to Github. I view this as a mandatory feature for any program that claims to prepare you for a job though.
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For perspective, began in November 2015 and am now nearly finished with the curriculum.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my experience with the Flatiron School's Learn Verified Program. The platform of learn.co itself is great. From day one, everything you are doing with your time is real, actual work. You always work in a real dev environment, and push all your code to Github. I view this as a mandatory feature for any program that claims to prepare you for a job though.
I could rave about how the course material was a good mix of clear, concise, and fun, or how the specific technologies covered are relevant for today's market. However, what I believe to be one of the strongest features to Flatiron is the overarching sequence and manner in which they guide you through learning programming skills. This is hard to explain if you don't have much coding experience. The Flatiron curriculum is very thoughtfully crafted in a way which has you cementing together fundamental blocks of your knowledge that you only realize after you have already built them. More succinctly, it's wax on, wax off. More concretely I mean that they have you manually build out various technologies in detail by hand, before introducing you to an existing technology or framework (dynamic ORM before ActiveRecord, Sinatra before Rails, etc). Going about it in this manner really ensures that their students will have a firm understanding of what these technologies do and why they do it. I am much more interested in gaining a thorough understanding of how to use a framework well than simply being able to crank out apps and material without that underlying basis. More complete understanding is better for you in the long run.
I have found that help has been quickly within reach anytime it was truly needed. The staff has been extremely responsive, and genuinely make every possible effort to give their students anything that will help them succeed. The live assessments are very valuable as well. Every time I have learned an extreme amount of information very quickly. You are given perspective not only on the work that you have done, but for overall project design decisions, code patterns, and often pushed to expand your work in ways that you'd never have thought to.
Now nearing the end of the coursework, I am feeling very confident in my ability to build increasingly powerful and complex applications. It's important to remember that a bootcamp is just a beginning. If you are genuinely changing careers into software development as I am, the learning does not stop after any bootcamp. There is a limit to the amount of material that you will learn in any bootcamp, but I don't think there's anything I feel was lacking from Flatiron. I am highly confident in my ability to find work upon graduation, and will hopefully update with results in the near future.
I attended Flatiron's Online Web Developer Program via Learn.co from August 2016 to April 2017 while working full time. Fully employed as of May 2017.
I'm fully aware that I go into full fangirl mode whenever I talk about Flatiron. What can I say? I had an amazing experience that I can honestly call life-changing. I went from a hobbyist coder to an employable programmer in less than a year, met tons of friends from all over the U.S. and the rest of the world, and...
I attended Flatiron's Online Web Developer Program via Learn.co from August 2016 to April 2017 while working full time. Fully employed as of May 2017.
I'm fully aware that I go into full fangirl mode whenever I talk about Flatiron. What can I say? I had an amazing experience that I can honestly call life-changing. I went from a hobbyist coder to an employable programmer in less than a year, met tons of friends from all over the U.S. and the rest of the world, and laid the foundations for a great career.
What made it so great?
Don't get me wrong; it was a ton of work. I had an unrelated full-time job that I couldn't quit for financial reasons, so my life consisted of going to work and coming home to code for several months. My friends thought I had turned into a hermit. But it was absolutely worth it, and I'd recommend this program to anyone looking to get a head start on a career in web development.
Description | Percentage |
Full Time, In-Field Employee | 72.6% |
Full-time apprenticeship, internship or contract position | 13.5% |
Short-term contract, part-time position, freelance | N/A |
Employed out-of-field | N/A |
How much does Flatiron School cost?
Flatiron School costs around $17,900. On the lower end, some Flatiron School courses like Data Science cost $16,900.
What courses does Flatiron School teach?
Flatiron School offers courses like Cybersecurity Engineering , Data Science , Product Design (UX/UI Design), Software Engineering .
Where does Flatiron School have campuses?
Flatiron School has in-person campuses in Denver and New York City. Flatiron School also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.
Is Flatiron School worth it?
The data says yes! In 2022, Flatiron School reported a 70% graduation rate, a median salary of $72,000, and 90% of Flatiron School alumni are employed.
Is Flatiron School legit?
We let alumni answer that question. 577 Flatiron School alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Flatiron School and rate their overall experience a 4.46 out of 5.
Does Flatiron School offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
Right now, it doesn't look like Flatiron School 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 Flatiron School reviews?
You can read 577 reviews of Flatiron School on Course Report! Flatiron School alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Flatiron School and rate their overall experience a 4.46 out of 5.
Is Flatiron School accredited?
We are licensed (or otherwise authorized) in various jurisdictions for all Immersive courses. See flatironschool.com for more details.
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