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General Assembly is a technical education provider that teaches students the skills, career advice and networking opportunities needed to make a career change into a tech role, in as little as three months. General Assembly offers part-time and full-time bootcamps and short courses in web and mobile development, product management, data science, and more. The bootcamp experience is led by instructors who are expert practitioners in their field. Students should expect to build a solid portfolio of real-life projects. Since 2011, General Assembly has graduated more than 40,000 students worldwide from the full time and part time bootcamp.
To enroll at General Assembly, applicants should submit an online application to connect with a GA Admissions team member who will work with them to decide if a tech bootcamps is the right fit. The GA Admissions staff are also prepared to speak with applicants about the best tech role for them, learning styles at GA, expected outcomes after the bootcamp, options to finance the bootcamp, career services offered by GA, and more.
To help students land their first job in a tech role, General Assembly students are supported by career coaches from day one. The program is enhanced by a career services team that is constantly in talks with employers about their tech hiring needs.
It's definitely a difficult path...but rewarding if you put in the time and effort. General Assembly fosters a community that thrives off of on another and also pushes young programmers towards a job that they will treasure. I had literally the best group of instructors in the school's history, not to mention being put amognst a brilliant crop of students. The 9-5 12 week schedule is rough, but there are some days off in between. We learn Ruby, SQL with Postgres, Testing with Rspec...
It's definitely a difficult path...but rewarding if you put in the time and effort. General Assembly fosters a community that thrives off of on another and also pushes young programmers towards a job that they will treasure. I had literally the best group of instructors in the school's history, not to mention being put amognst a brilliant crop of students. The 9-5 12 week schedule is rough, but there are some days off in between. We learn Ruby, SQL with Postgres, Testing with Rspec, Cucumber and Jasmine, Sinatra, Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Underscore and Backbone. They do a lot also with the Job Search Standup to try and get you jobs, but you should be prepared to do a considerable amount of work on your own as well. I would recommend the WDI program to everyone.
I think back fondly of my time at GA and my classmates and instructors altho I found the experience stressful and physically taxing at the time. I would say peoples experiance during the course varies very widly depending on the insturctors, you really don't know what you are going to get coming in. Some of them are better with code, some of them are better with teaching, some of them are better with dealing with people. Different groups of students have dif...
I think back fondly of my time at GA and my classmates and instructors altho I found the experience stressful and physically taxing at the time. I would say peoples experiance during the course varies very widly depending on the insturctors, you really don't know what you are going to get coming in. Some of them are better with code, some of them are better with teaching, some of them are better with dealing with people. Different groups of students have different needs. I will say that they do take feedback seriously and pivot fast to meet needs of group.
When it comes to results the sales people said 99 - 95 percent get jobs. So far this has shown to be almost true, I would say 6 months later maybe 70 - 80% are working either in internship or job. They have a phenominal support program in place but it is still on you to get yourself hired, and it difficult to break into this industry. Those who obtain employment work very hard at getting it, employers do not generally trust someone without real paid programming experiance. When the course is over you will be exhuasted but still have a lot of work to do. Its also important to mention that where you were in life before taking the course does still have bearing on your employability. This is not direct ticket to a career, you have to find a way to differentiate yourself, these bootcamps are pumping people out onto the job market at an excellerated rate.
I definatly feel more part of the tech industry. They did give me many skills and knowledge necessary to access it in a short timeframe, I dont think I could have learned so fast any other way.
For validty and Gravitas I need to mention that I have a background in teaching the STEM sciences. That being said, the experience at General Assembly was far below SUB STANDARD and HERE is why:
1. The course producers had/have no experience in teaching, curriculum design, or coding....Let me reiterate....the people designing the courses have no prior experience, education, or training. My original course producer I saw only once in 3 months. Ano...
For validty and Gravitas I need to mention that I have a background in teaching the STEM sciences. That being said, the experience at General Assembly was far below SUB STANDARD and HERE is why:
1. The course producers had/have no experience in teaching, curriculum design, or coding....Let me reiterate....the people designing the courses have no prior experience, education, or training. My original course producer I saw only once in 3 months. Another course producer quit without notice, leaving our class without this support for a month. A handfull of students would regularly meet with the staff to provide viable simple solutions to recuring problems, these solutions were ignored, yet they would ask us to take time out of our day to complete feedback forms to help them shape future classes. Students who continued to voice thier opinions were asked to leave the program.
2. The instructors, although good coders, were awful teachers. Examples: teachers yelling at students, teachers walking away from students during instruction, teachers not available during critical project weeks (by unavailable I mean holding meetings in another room for several hours unapproachable and unresponsive to student needs), Teachers frequently going off topic at length. Teachers leaving for vacation without replacement staff. The coup de grâce was that after 2/3rds of the course was finished half of the students could not make a simple Ruby on Rails App !!! The material was retaught at the expense of learning any remaining curriculum.
3. The Job Assistance staff and Outcomes Staff changed multiple times. The lead outcomes producer would spout the same speech each time she met with us. This should have been provided in note form or Powerpoint presentation and critical information addressed. The information she provided was topical and cursory, it was plainly obvious that she was a good meet-n-greet person, but lacked the skills at actually instructing how to land a job. The remainder of the staff was primarily recruiters with no real incentive to assist in job placement. They claim to have a mentorship/internship program, to this day I know of no one in ANY of the graduating classes that took part in any such program. GA claims that they have 90% placement within 3 months after graduation. This was not even close. In fact while they gave us this speech 50% of the previous class was unemployed 4 months after graduation. 50% of my class is also without placement.
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How much does General Assembly cost?
General Assembly costs around $16,450. On the lower end, some General Assembly courses like Visual Design (Short Course) cost $3,500.
What courses does General Assembly teach?
General Assembly offers courses like 1. Data Science Bootcamp (Full Time), 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time), 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time), 4. Data Analytics Bootcamp (Full Time) and 11 more.
Where does General Assembly have campuses?
General Assembly has in-person campuses in London, New York City, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney. General Assembly also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.
Is General Assembly worth it?
The data says yes! General Assembly reports a 84% graduation rate, and 95% of General Assembly alumni are employed. The data says yes! In 2021, General Assembly reported a 82% graduation rate, a median salary of , and N/A of General Assembly alumni are employed.
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Does General Assembly offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
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