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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.
I attended GA for their Web Development Immersive from May 30 - August 19, 2016. I’ll start by saying it was an experience.
The bootcamp is a very intense experience where you’re in a classroom for 40 hours per week - taking notes, listening to lectures, and working on mini-labs as well as day-long labs. You also have, on top of the 40 hours per week in class, an additional 20-40 hours of homework and projects to complete outside of class putting your workload rea...
I attended GA for their Web Development Immersive from May 30 - August 19, 2016. I’ll start by saying it was an experience.
The bootcamp is a very intense experience where you’re in a classroom for 40 hours per week - taking notes, listening to lectures, and working on mini-labs as well as day-long labs. You also have, on top of the 40 hours per week in class, an additional 20-40 hours of homework and projects to complete outside of class putting your workload realistically at 60-80 hours per week. It’s physically exhausting as well as mentally exhausting over the course of the 12 weeks. Bear in mind that this isn’t a full-time job and part-time job that you’re probably tired of or bored with. This is a course where you’re constantly being pushed mentally to grasp new material and apply it in solo settings, paired settings, and group settings; it’s exhausting, but also refreshing and exhilarating at the same time. You’re encouraged to go to meet ups when you find the time between class, homework, and projects if you have the energy, to meet new people, expand your network, and hopefully meet someone who needs what you have to offer (i.e. employers and freelance work). Somewhere in the mix of all that, you get resume coaching by a professional career coach, personal portfolio site coaching by professional designers, behavioral interview prep by professional recruiters, technical interview prep by professional programmers, and lectures about freelancing, negotiation, and a host of “soft” skills to prepare you for your eventual job search and career. Somewhere in there, you also tour a couple of local tech/tech-oriented companies. We visited uShip and Atlassian.
The 12 weeks are structured in 4 units - 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 3 weeks, and 3 weeks. You’re asked over the course of the 12 weeks to build 1 game, 2 group projects (1 front end, 1 back end), and 1 final capstone solo project with most people opting to make a full stack application for this, but the program leaves it open-ended as to what you do. With the exception of the game at the end of week 2, where everyone is assigned the same game, the other 3 projects are left completely up to your groups and yourself to decide what to build. You’re asked to be creative. You’re asked to be logical. You’re asked to be patient. You’re asked to be motivated. The program is very demanding of what you bring to the table.
If you’re not so much intimidated by all of that that as you are excited by it, then please keep reading because you might have found your next step in life.
It’s a blast! You’ll meet people from so many different walks of life. In my class, there was a college student majoring in business, a former Computer Science major, a former Army Ranger, a game designer, a journalist, 2 people who worked in finance, a guy who took on various roles at various companies, and a former Apple employee. I was a music composition major in college, and worked as a pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher for a few years before I decided to transition to something new, which ended up, after a year and a half of searching, to be computer programming for web development. You’ll come to make friends with these people, love them for their quirks, hate them for their quirks, and eventually have a sense of camaraderie with them because you all made it through something together that not everyone wants to do, nor, I’m not even sure, can do.
ALSO, you’re in one of the coolest towns in the U.S.! Austin is the live music capital of the U.S., so just the live music scene alone is something special. Austin also has all kinds of hiking trails, like the Barton Creek Greenbelt, and natural swimming holes, like Barton Springs, to explore. Everything Austin offers makes for a great environment to deflate and relax from the intense programming environment you’ll be entering into.
This is pretty standard information, though, so I’d like to talk more about my personal experience with and in the program.
I had never coded before GA, and so I was really going out on a limb here spending that kind of money, investing that kind of time, and putting myself way outside my comfort zone. I’ve never been “a computer person”. I used computers, but not for anything extraordinary; just Facebook, YouTube… the usual suspects. I always had this weird interest in learning to program for some reason, though, and an acquaintance of mine always talked about it with such passion and verve. I never gave myself the time or credit to teach myself how to program, so I ended up telling myself, “Now or never… you’re not interested in pursuing music professionally anymore, you’ve worked several odds-and-end jobs with nothing really catching your imagination… go for it!” So I did. It was the best decision I’ve made in my adult life. I’m 27. So now you know my non-existent programming background prior to GA.
(Note: For anyone older reading this, there were also people much older than me, though. I think in the cohort that started a few weeks after mine, there was a guy who was in his 40s. In my class, the aforementioned game designer was 31.)
The application process was cool. They give you very limited resources and ask you to build your own About Me website and submit it. I did this, so they scheduled an interview. I got accepted. It wasn’t stressful. They just try to engage you, see what gets you ticking, and get to know you. Next was the pre-work to be completed before the program started, so there was at least an exposure to fundamental concepts. The pre-work is challenging, and, unfortunately, in my opinion, I think GA could do way better with this pre-work. Every time you come to the exercises, you feel like you aren’t prepared for them, which is not how the program is. The labs, homework, and projects are very challenging, but you’re very well-prepared for them. It may seem like you’re not at times, but you are. You just have to really mine your mind for the information you’ve been exposed to. This pre-work, however, can be quite harrowing at times, so if you decide to enroll, start working on the pre-work, and feel like an idiot… don’t worry… I was the same. I’m not sure if it’s the exposure to a completely new way of thinking, or if it’s just the pre-work is insufficient in its explanations… it definitely leaves you wondering whether you’re going to be able to do this. I can assure you again, though, the rest of the program plays out much better.
My instructors were awesome! Sean, Amanda, and Britney Jo… they were something else. Very patient people who want nothing more than to see you succeed. I don’t know GA’s process for hiring teachers, but they seem to pick the cream of the crop. These people are so knowledgeable and very kind. To boot, instructors from the other classes like Ross, Riley, and Mike reach out to you and make sure you’re doing well.
The staff is really great, too! Really cool people from Leah and Emily, to Nicole and Sarah, to Chris… there’s several of them. They went above and beyond to make sure all of us were doing alright, and would always say, “Hey, how’s it going?” when you passed them in the hallway. They hosted a potluck where all of the students brought food, and we ate together. They know you’re spending money and time to be there, and they want to make it worth your while and really make you feel like you’re part of something.
Something I haven’t mentioned about my experience is what was happening in my life outside of GA. My father passed away halfway through the program, and I was very distraught by this loss. The staff and faculty, with the exception of 2 or 3, all came up to me individually and privately to express their condolences. Leah sent flowers to my mother. They were incredibly flexible and accommodating, going so far as to offering to extend the program an extra week for me so I could go be with family for a week in the immediate aftermath. They were also very supportive. Everyone would engage me in conversation and check to make sure I was doing alright. I really wouldn’t have graduated without the support they gave me. I was completely alone in Austin. I’m from Arkansas, so Austin is 9 hours away from my family and friends. What they did for me meant the world to me, and, I think, speaks very positive worlds about the people you’ll be engaged with on a daily basis.
I’m a very cynical person, but I believe in this school.
A friend of mine I met there who was enrolled in the previous Web Development Immersive which started prior to but overlapped with mine, said something very succinct, which describes the experience in a hilarious, but apt way. He said, “WDI was the greatest experience of my life that I never want to repeat again.” I expressed this sentiment to my friends in my cohort as well as my friends in the Android Development Immersive and the User Design Immersive that were happening simultaneously with my cohort, and everyone who heard it laughed and agreed. It’s damn intense, but it’s also a damn good time.
If you have any further questions you didn’t get answered here, I encourage you to talk to the staff, but you’re welcome to contact me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinstandefer
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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.
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