MakerSquare is now Hack Reactor

As of 11/1/16, Hack Reactor has unified its network of schools, including MakerSquare and Telegraph Academy, under the Hack Reactor brand.

Subject to regulatory approval, MakerSquare's network of schools are rebranded as Hack Reactor Austin, Hack Reactor Los Angeles, Hack Reactor San Francisco and Hack Reactor New York City.

If you graduated from MakerSquare prior to October 2016, please leave your review for MakerSquare. Otherwise, please leave your review for Hack Reactor.

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MakerSquare

Average Rating4.41
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MakerSquare is a 12-week immersive career accelerator program in Austin and San Francisco that aims to turn ambitious beginners looking to learn computer programming into marketable software engineers. MakerSquare's curriculum focuses solely on JavaScript with a large focus on software engineering fundamentals. NodeJS, Angular, Meteor and Express are just a few of the libraries, frameworks and platforms students work with. Additionally, throughout the program, MakerSq...

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  • Sam
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    Graduate • MakerPrep • New York City
    Aug 18, 2016
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    Horrible

    Despite paying for in person education, the instruction from MakerSquare is primarily delivered through their online portal and the quality of their exercises is not as good as Free Code Camp or other online education platforms. The only benefit from the MakerSquare program is having a deadline, and because of that I recommend setting your own deadlines or doing any of the other less expensive programs.

      Their statistics for graduate performance are ...
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  • Alice Kao
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    Graduate • JavaScript Full-Stack Immersive • San Francisco
    Jul 29, 2016
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    One of the best!

    Great curriculum and top tier instructors, glad I picked makersquare. Can easily say it was the most valuable learning experience of my life!
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  • Nick
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    Student • Austin
    Jul 28, 2016
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    Helpful Launchpad

    With all the free and low cost training resources available online these days, enrolling in a bootcamp like MakerSquare is not required to learn how to code, but the program certainly can expedite your learning. If you read through the other reviews you probably can find arguments about how the program is a waste of time --- if you're convinced by such arguments then you certainly shouldn't waste your time because your mindset plays a big factor in how much value you can glean from MakerSq...

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  • Kayla
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    Graduate • JavaScript Full-Stack Immersive • Austin
    Jul 05, 2016
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    Not impressed

    As much as I honestly don’t want to think about my experience at Makersquare ever again, I felt I had to write a review to keep things from being really biased here. Clearly I’m one of the only people who has anything bad to say, and I believe the reasons for that are as follows:
    1. It’s kind of a cult- when you spend basically every waking second of your life (except Sundays) with the same people in the same room for 3 months, of course you’re likely to come ...
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  • Diandra
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    Graduate • JavaScript Full-Stack Immersive • Austin
    Jun 08, 2016
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    Mostly Good

    I'll start by saying that I got exactly what I came to MakerSquare for. I have an awesome job. I got that job quickly and easily after finishing. I felt qualified starting it. 

    In my six months at MakerSquare (3 as a student, 3 as a fellow) not everyone had as easy of a time and there were a handful of things I didn't like. This isn't meant to be a negative review. I learned a lot, got a great job, and met a ton of wonderful, intelligent people. But I do want to highlight a coup...

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Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated November 01, 2016
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Updated September 01, 2016
As an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who grew up loving computers, Ricardo originally studied civil engineering in case he had to return home to get a job. But after the recession reduced the number of exciting civil engineering jobs available in the US, Ricardo decided to revisit his passion for coding and enroll at MakerSquare in Austin, Texas. Ricardo tells us about why he chose MakerSquare , his exciting final project Melody Map, and his plans to work remotely and travel ...
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Updated August 31, 2016
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Updated August 02, 2016
Jamie was a software engineer working at companies like eBay and PayPal for 10 years before he followed his passion for teaching and joined MakerSquare Austin in August 2015. He is now Head of Instruction and leads the senior phase of the bootcamp, as well as iterating on the curriculum. Jamie tells us why he fully believes in the bootcamp model, why soft skills and team skills are so important, and how MakerSquare is now offering free weekly workshops. Tell us about your background ...
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Updated July 14, 2016
MakerSquare has just opened in New York; its fourth campus after Austin, Los Angeles , and San Francisco. We spoke to campus managing director, Tyler Lambe, about his background starting another bootcamp, why MakerSquare chose to expand to New York, how the curriculum differs compared with other campuses, and what sort of companies are hiring junior developers in NYC. Q&A How is MakerSquare NYC going so far? I came out to here in late February 2016 to launch the campus, we ...
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Updated May 13, 2016
Meet Doa, an alum of MakerSquare s first cohort in 2013. Three years later, Doa has immersed herself in the New York startup scene, fallen in love with JavaScript, and even hired several coding bootcamp graduates. Doa isn t your typical developer, and she says that s made all the difference. We talk about what makes a truly successful bootcamp grad, the 12-point checklist every bootcamper needs at their first job interview, and why Doa is excited for MakerSquare to open in New York ...
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Updated April 11, 2016
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Updated March 15, 2016
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Updated December 28, 2020
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Updated May 14, 2015
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MakerSquare Alumni Reviews Summary

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4.4
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