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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'm leaving this review for anyone considering the Android Development Immersive. I don't know much about the other courses offered by GA except that if you want the highest chance of getting a job you should take the Web Development Immersive for reasons I'll explain later in this review.
As things are now, if you really want to take this course and are able to comprehend a very basic amount of html for the code challenge required before your interview you will be admitted. Hone...
I'm leaving this review for anyone considering the Android Development Immersive. I don't know much about the other courses offered by GA except that if you want the highest chance of getting a job you should take the Web Development Immersive for reasons I'll explain later in this review.
As things are now, if you really want to take this course and are able to comprehend a very basic amount of html for the code challenge required before your interview you will be admitted. Honestly, if you are willing to get a loan or pay for this course you are obviously serious about learning this skill. I came into the program with very basic prior experience in mobile development and the coding languages used. This would be my recommendation for others considering I am one of the two students out of five in the class that has a job 100+ days after graduation. The other student with a job also had some prior experience with Java, which is the main language used for Android development. They will let you into the course without any prior knowledge and suggest that you take a Java primer before starting, but I would think hard about going through an online course beforehand. There are so many free resources out there, there's really no reason not to learn as much of the basics as you can before you start to this expensive course.
One of the biggest obstacles to learning to develop software is getting over the hurdles of beginning to learn a new language. I went through all the hair-pulling beforehand of just wrapping my head around coding languages and object-oriented programming structures. You don't want to have this struggle coupled with the logic learning and architecture you have to learn as well during the course. Having some prior knowledge allowed me to consume the course material at it's very fast and condensed pace.
The course material itself is still being perfected and tested at the time of this review, but that does not mean it is not effective. I have been able to secure a position at a large and growing development company that handles apps for clients with 10+ million user bases. I count myself very lucky, and I have worked very hard during the 12-week course and the 100 or so days after that it took me to get hired.
What really helped in regards to the actual course material was having two amazing instructors. GA hires professionals who have proven themselves in their field and this really allows for practical, real-world-applicable learning that is hard to get in a college classroom. These instructors know the ins-and-outs of the industry and the resources you need to always be up-to-speed on what's happening in the developer community.
GA also has a well-developed structure and connections to get you involved in the community (at least at the Austin location) which is another major reason the program was effective.
After the course, we were given job assistance, but since the ADI is so new, GA is still working on solidifying relationships with companies that need Android developers. As I alluded earlier, this is one of the reasons WDI students get jobs so quickly and at high percentages (the WDI program has been around much longer and GA has much deeper roots with companies in this field). Don't let this deter you too much though, because the job hunt really is on you and GA didn't completely leave us hanging. To further our education, GA set up each student with mentors (in our case two each because of our small class size) who are senior developers at major companies in Austin. This is how I got connected with my current job and gained some very important insight into becoming a professional and contributing developer. Use the mentor program as much as you can. This is how you raise your skill level exponentially after graduation and can compete against others with years of experience.
It is possible to succeed with this program, and you can do it if you really want it. It's all on you though, and of course nothing is guaranteed. But GA is good about doing their best to give you what you need to succeed. Many people take their courses for a reason, just be prepared to work very hard for it.
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General Assembly costs around $16,450. On the lower end, some General Assembly courses like Visual Design (Short Course) cost $3,500.
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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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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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