General Assembly

I learned software engineering professionally within 4 months, and I underestimated how much I knew. After graduation, I decided to network with a state college and was surrounded by 3rd and 4th years, and I was shocked when I discovered that they were learning high school level programming content! I am proud to be a college freshmen dropout and took this untraditional pathway in order for me to pursue my career!

Once I finished this course, I felt like I was on my own, so make sure you hold yourself accountable after BootCamp. The job search will be tedious and difficult. Read less

Taking a technology bootcamp course was a huge scary decision to make but  I am glad I did.  The instructional and the support staff, such as the student success and outcomes advisors, are all exceptional.  As long as you put in the effort they will go above and beyond to support you in succeeding.  The program is very challenging and demanding but if you are determined and follow their guidance you will succeed. I completed the blended course which was the best fit for me.   Read less

Doing the General Assembly UX/UI course will be your starting point into a tech career, but it is not going to make up for any office experience or even real-world experience. I would highly recommend going into a similar field such as marketing or social media, to understand how office jobs work. There are also MANY UX/UI bootcamp students now, so do not believe them when they say you'll be set up to find a job. While I was employed within 2 months of my bootcamp, it was in an industry I had worked in before as a marketer. Many of my peers are still not employed one year later.  Read less

In my bootcamp, everyone was non-judgemental, I just had fun learning with my class. The curriculum was great in preparing me for jobs too since it was directed at web development frameworks that are in demand. It was also very useful because there's sufficient hands on experience instead of just purely theory. Overall, was brilliant! Read less

The community in GA is amazing! Coming to class everyday was exciting, the way the instructors teaches shows how much they love their job and how genuinely they wanted to help. They stand in students shoes and give advices outside of classroom as well. I definitely created life long friendships in GA. The 3 months in GA was one of the toughest but best 3 months i had. Read less

I'm a mature age, working web dev professional who took a General Assembly Product Management course to brush up on my skills and investigate future career paths.

I'm currently doing a post-graduate certification in web dev now after not being at university for 25 years, and there's an incredible difference of  learner experience quality between contemporary vocational education and institutional education. (Disclaimer: I have a chunk of experience in corporate adult learning and development.)

At General Assembly, we had access to a working, veteran professional twice a week for 10 weeks, and everything we did in class and homework was working to the end assignment for course completion, a product strategy presentation. The expectations and grading rubric were clear.

At the institution where I am studying now, the units are being led by 'eLearning advisors' who have only superficial knowledge of the subject matter. Students have banded together to form their own study groups because the promised collaborative learning experience is giving no value. The assignment requirements are hazily defined even though they involve clear demonstration of measurable competencies (ie coding).

I've heard the platitude that 'the university experience is what you make it' a few times now but that just seems to let the bureaucracy of these institutions off the hook. Plenty of money is spent on course advertising and student onboarding, but not enough on course materials and experienced teaching staff. 

Ugh, I didn't mean for this to be a kvetch about my disappointment with tertiary education institutions!

My experience has highlighted how General Assembly's model to practical capability development is vastly superior for the modern digital age, and that current education and certification paradigms are ripe for disruption.

I thoroughly recommend General Assembly for their curriculum, approach to continuous improvement, and learner support. Read less

For someone with no background of product management this course promises that it is recommended for beginners or no background, it also promises that a career help will be given.
After struggling for the first few weeks I found myself in a bit of a struggle to keep up.
John and Alex where very good but again to much to cover for someone with no background. 
As soon as the course was finished I heard nothing from anyone even though it says that a career help can be provided.
For the amount I have paid I at least expect that the core values will be delivered.
Kind regards
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I had a great experience attending General Assembly's Software Engineering Immersive. My Instructors were very patient and understanding, even without any previous knowledge. I saw many people make full-stack apps after having little or no experience coding. The course load is very demanding, as you will be on camera 9 - 5 every day and have 4 hours or more of homework. Although it is a lot of work, the instructors were great at guiding us. The course will not teaching you everything, and you will sometimes feel as if you still don't understand things, but in the end you will learn a lot and it will prepare you on your Software Engineering journey going forward. There is also Outcomes, which helps you with the job search. One recommendation I would have is more direct resources for student post-course. By this I mean access to Apprenticeships and Internships that otherwise are usually only available to college students. Knowing apprenticeships were available post-course would go a long way to ensuring that people would feel even more comfortable entering the program. Read less

It was an excellent experience for first time online coding bootcamp, instructors were so professionals and helpful. They used their knowledge and experience to lead and guid all students equally.
For me as non native English speaker (intermediate English level) was a bit hard for me to catch up every thing at the beginning and the course leaders were so patient by repeating and explaining more deeply.
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Prasanth was the bomb! Super consistent, patient, and supportive.  There was so much information stuffed into 10 weeks, and he helped adjust the pace of the course as time went on. Additionally, I learned a lot being with different classmates who had various strengths. GA curriculum was easy to follow and clear with no surprises - I rated it 4/5 mainly because I wish we spent more time on SQL and less time on the tableau segment. Highly recommend this class. Read less

After completing and passing the course, I had to wait over 3 months for the company to provide me my certificate of completion. I had to pester and constantly follow up, and never was provided any more information than, 'we're working on it.' Only until i resorted to social media did something actually get done about it. For a company that works with industry leaders I was blindsided by such a poor experience. I will not be taking a course from GA again. Read less

  I have just graduated from a 2-month full-time Digital Marketing Immersive course at General Assembly, Singapore.  It was a very engaging, fun, and intensive course that I enjoyed and benefitted from.  Michael Buchholz was our instructor.  He was very generous to share his in-depth marketing experience and provide invaluable insights.  The highlight of the course is the pro-bono client project which is also the capstone project.  With guidance from Michael, we applied what we had learned to develop digital marketing campaigns for a real client who was very pleased with our work.  In short, it was a high-quality comprehensive hands-on project-based course that transformed me from a novice into a job-ready digital marketer.  I would recommend General Assembly Digital Marketing Immersive to anyone interested to take a digital marketing course. 

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I recently completed the product management 10-week part time course with GA, remotely in Melbourne. I was worried about remote learning as I can find it difficult to be engaged but I found that the use of group, partner and solo activities around the core learning to help with this immensely. I love that the instructors were available for us to pick their brains around their real-world experience - I gained some invaluable learning this way. Read less

I'm in the process of enrolling in GA's immersive UX and learned from their Admissions officer that their Catalyst (ISA) is NOT available anymore in California. Seems CA and 4 other states, per the Admissions officer, have regulated ISAs in order to protect consumers. I was really counting on this ISA, but now I'll likely have to apply for a loan- very disappointed. Good for consumer protections... but bad for folks in this process like me. Darn. Read less

For anyone who is on the fence about bootcamps, or comparing the long-term value of bootcamps- General Assembly includes a career coaching component to the lessons and portfolio projects that set it apart from other bootcamps. There's a long-term value proposition that you take with you long after you graduate: how to effectively create a personal brand, network and find mentors -things that you probably won't find at many traditional colleges and universities until the last year in some cases.  
The instructors are also professionals working in the industry. Nothing is theoretical, everything is practical. The lessons are a) broken into project-specific components that correspond to portfolio work, and b) emphasize working with different parts of a team or department, so that when you graduate you know the importance of, for example, communicating early and often with DevOps if you are a designer, researcher, project manager or strategist. 
You might loose a few nights of sleep if you sign up for the full time immersive, because the projects ramp up quickly in terms of complexity- but I also thought that was a good thing.  Read less

After paying in full for a Web Development course, I had to reschedule to another time.  However, I am still having trouble getting refunded.  I asked to cancel within the allotted time frame (within 14 days).  Contacted customer support and admissions, they tell me to talk to the person who helped me with registration.  I contact her (Tanya Clark) through email, no response for a few days.  I call her and she says she has been out of the office for the past few days.  Great.  She says she processed the cancellation.  I get an email for a voided student agreement.  That was over 7 business days and there is no sign of my refund.  I call her again and I get this pissy attitude saying she cancelled it already, she sent multiple emails confirming the cancellation (I did not receive anything since then).  Making me feel like I'm in the wrong for bothering her.  Well, if you could just give me back the $3000, I'll stop.  Simple, no?  Baffling that an incompetent person with the emotional capacity of a 12 year old child is working in a customer support role.   Read less

I took the UX Design course from November 2021 to January 2022 with Matthew Reiswig. This is a fantastic class! I cannot recommend it enough. We were given all the tools and resources to get started as a professional UX Designer. I am definitely leaving this class feeling energized and empowered to tackle this new world of opportunities that lies ahead.  Read less

I am satisfied with the depth of the content, the quality of the teaching (Chris was fantastic!) and GA overall (platforms and UI). However, in my opinion, this course is overpriced. 
The course costs £2,800 and I did the 40 hours intensive course completed in 6 days. 
I paid in three instalments which helped, but I believe this course would be better priced at £2,000. 

I am happy to have enrolled on this course. However, in my humble opinion, this didn't seem good value for money. Read less

Not worth it, It is super hectic and fast-paced. Classes start with full-day presentations (similar to recorded videos) none stop from 9am to 5pm, then on the third day you have to turn in your project and if your project is not good enough, you are out. (Just like that). 
If you can learn by yourself from YouTube then you can learn in this course also. 
There are zero one on one or individual attention,(There is not even any time for it) You will be super exhausted by 5 pm which you can't even review days materials) Classes are around 20-25 students with one instructor and a student from past course as an assistant. (Instructors have design jobs on the side also so right by 5pm they will disappear to go after their day job.)
I would recommend it only if you are good at learning by yourself videos. Read less