Springboard Reviews
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Jaspar von Buelow
The best way to learn during COVID times
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The online software engineering course from Springboard proved to be the ideal solution for me. Since I was still working full-time during the week, I needed an online course that would let you advance at your own pace while still being affordable. I think the way the course was laid out made it easy to advance from one topic to another, building upon previous lessons and not leaving gaps. I loved Colt Steele's teaching style! He knows how to break things down and explain them in a logical (and humorous) way. Springboard did a very good job matching me with my mentor. I was really able to connect with him and looked forward to our weekly meetings.
Overall, my experience was an A++ and I would recommend Springboard to anyone! -
Megan Gawlik
Love how it is project based, difficult with a full time job
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Pros
-Thorough curriculum, walks you through the entire UX Design process from research to design to testing to iteration
-Weekly mentor calls to keep you on track and get guidance from a UX expert, you'll likely form a bond with this person
-Project based curriculum. I now have three case studies that I included in my brand new portfolio, all with the help of Springboard
-The industry design project is truly awesome. You get to work with a real company which is invaluable. Mine offered to have me continue working part-time after I finished the 4-week project, which it seems is pretty common from what I've heard. Some students I have seen get offered full time positions at their industry design project
-I worked full time alongside the course and so I was able to get a 2 month extension for free (so I did the course for 8 months total), I also got a couple of weeks off to catch up after a vacation (at no charge)
Cons
-It was a lot of work to do the course while working full time. It's possible, but it was definitely demanding. The course end date can be extended but you will have to pay extra, so since I didn't want to pay extra, I worked a lot to try to finish before the end of my 8 months, which I ended up doing.
-I was lucky enough to be able to pay upfront in order to save some money in the long run, but this course is definitely expensive. However, I think it is worth it
-I didn't like how a lot of the career coaches booked calls so far out in advance due to limited availability. I think Springboard recently hired more career coaches so that may be fixed, but while I was in the course availability was limited -
Goberdhan Barran
UX/UI Sudent
Enough practice work in the curriculum with sufficient guidance that enabled me to learn the skill faster. I would recommend Springboard any day because of its timely support, effective and learned mentors. I truly enjoyed being apart of the Springboard student community. -
Adrien Saremi
A good educational program; can easily become great
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Context: During my last year as a Ph.D. student, as I planned to pursue a career in data science, I decided to join the Data Science Career Track of the Springboard program. I was recommended by one of my Ph.D. student friends, who eventually successfully landed a good working position. I therefore decided to follow his footsteps.
Overall: I am quite satisfied with Springboard's program. I think it has formed me well to become a data scientist and to quickly land a job. However, I believe there are a few things they can still improve on.
Pros:- Overall Quality: the data science track definitely introduces and educates you well to the data science world, used in the industry. It covers most aspects of data science (wrangling, visualization, ML, ... ) and lets you acquire enough experience to land a job in that field. Of course, it won't replace extensive years of professional experience, but it is great way to bootstrap your data science career.
- Preparedness: I would argue that the data science track doesn't require advanced programming skills, but it is best to have some Python experience (the software overwhelmingly used in the course). If you don't (like me), the first few months can be a bit of a learning curve. You eventually pass that stage though.
- The Capstone Projects: the program is focused on two data science projects that you lead from start to finish. A great learning experience where you put your hands in the dirt, which you accomplish under the supervision of your mentor. These are great accomplishments you put in your portfolio and that you showcase to employers.
- Mentorship: Speaking of which, the supervision by your mentor is probably the greatest feature of the course (and why the price is a bit high). For those who need someone to look over their shoulder, it's definitely a great resource that helps you move forward in the course. The mentorship I received was great and from what I heard, bad experience with mentors is quite rare. Plus you can always change, if it gets really bad.
- Career: The career services they offer are equally useful. By helping you build your résumé, your LinkedIn profile, etc... Springboard helps you reach out and makes your profile more attractive to employers. The mock interviews you need to pass in order to complete the course are ideal reflections of real career situations.
- Flexibility: While it is not something obvious when you start, you can actually ask for pauses, freezes and extensions if you need more time to complete the curriculum, or if you dealing with too much stuff a time in your professional / personal life (I assume they don't openly advertise that because they prefer you to finish the certification in a reasonable amount of time). I personally extensively used those (mostly because of how busy I was with my Ph.D. work, specially when it came down to my thesis defense). I eventually completed the program in 12 months. However, I DO NOT recommend to do so within such a big time frame. 6-8 months is definitely reasonable if you allocate the proper time each week. If you trail like I did, Springboard eventually starts charging you for additional extensions.
Cons:- Rates: their rates are a bit high in my opinion and I believe it's mostly because of the number of resources they offer (mentors, career advisors, extensive curriculum, access to external resources like DataCamp). It's good to have that many resources, but in my opinion, some parts of the curriculum (maybe less than 10%) are useless or redundant. Therefore, I think the rates (assuming you avoid enrolling in paid extensions) could be 10% cheaper than what they currently are.
- Customer Service: this definitely has been the worst part of the whole program. I assume it's because Springboard has considerably increased its volume of students (across all tracks) but their personnel's size hasn't been able to keep up. While I always eventually obtained the information I requested, it takes a while to find and reach out to the proper person. First of, they only allow email communications. Then, their services are split between advisors, support team, finance team, etc... So if you ask for something to someone, they will most likely re-direct you to someone else. And the response time can be a few days. I don't expect every customer rep. to know everything and I assume it takes a while to train them, but it is quite frustrating when you can't get a straight answer immediately, specially for finance-related questions or for deadlines (when you need an answer fast).
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Ehsaas Sachdeva
UI/UX Design
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Springboard made the transition from one occupation to the other very smooth. All the information provided by them was very easy to understand and follow. Having weekly mentor call for project related queries and having career coach calls for career related advice made it so helpful. Having one on one additional mentor call and community help made the journey quite interesting. Job guarantee process is definitely very helpful. -
Allison Raffel
Overall Great Experience
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I really enjoyed my time being enrolled with Springboard.
Strong points:
- One-on-one time with your mentor (this is the strongest point of the course imo. My mentor was wonderful about getting back to me outside of the time he was required to by Springboard. I could not have learned what I did in this course without his help)
- Additional mentor calls if necessary (these aren't with your mentor, but with a different mentor assigned by Springboard. I still found them helpful)
- The structure of the course helps you really understand the basics and have a good foundation for the fundamentals of UX design
- The Industry Design Project! Huge strong point. This will give you real-world experience which you can put on your resume and highlight on your portfolio
- If you take the job guarantee, you're required to pass mock interviews at the end of the course: whiteboarding, portfolio walkthrough, and a behavioral interview. You get two chances to pass, but I passed them all on my first try and so did the other students I spoke with. As long as you prepare and practice you should be able to pass, but this is a strong point because it prepares you for the real-world interview process. I was really nervous for these but I'm very glad they're embedded into the structure of the course
- I have just applied to complete with Springboard, so I haven't begun my job search yet, but if you take the job guarantee you will also have access to career coaches 6 months post-graduation, which will be incredibly valuable
- My student advisor (Molly) was incredible - quick response from her when I reached out, and she went above and beyond to address my concerns and make sure I was taken care of
Sticking points (for me personally):
- The course ran a lot longer than I expected it to. The projected time to complete is within 6 months if you spend 20-25 hours a week on the course. It took me about 11 months to complete, and I think this is more due to the course structure than anything else. Projects build on other projects, so sometimes I had to revise certain projects before moving onto the next stage. For the lengthier projects, I had to revise multiple times and it took a few weeks to get the go ahead from my mentor to continue. Like I said, he was incredibly helpful to me outside of the normal hours we met and I don't blame him for this at all - I think it made me a much better designer and helped me to go into the material in more depth. My sticking point here is just wishing that Springboard projected closer to a year rather than 6 months (for part-time students like me), but this could be something that's unique to my experience
- I understand why the career coaching sections are built into the structure of the course, but I have to admit I really did just want to focus on the hard skills of the course and found it a little jarring that there were career coaching sections in the beginning/middle of the course rather than just the end. The reason for this is networking and building up your LinkedIn profile/connections during the course, so the reasoning is good. I just struggled with feeling like I really wanted to focus on the skills themselves before doing the networking
Overall, I had a really positive experience with Springboard and found that they were really helpful and responsive when I needed them to be. I haven't started my job search, but if I'm able to update this review later, I will when I have a better understanding of how that will look.
If you're looking for a boot camp program for UX design, I think Springboard is an excellent option.
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Diogo Santos
Project-oriented and focused on business analytics
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I enjoyed very much my time at Springboard. The curriculum is very project-oriented, which means you'll get several chances to practice your newly acquired skills with real datasets. It's an online course, which concerned me initially. However, every student has an advisor and a mentor that follow their work closely, which is very helpful. How closely they follow your work depends on you, and how much you ask for advice and feedback. My advisor was instrumental in helping me set and stick with daily goals, balancing course-work and time to relax, and was simply there every time I had an issue related with the workings of the course. -
Joseph Aronez
UX Designer
I got the recommendation through my linkedin network and I have to say this is the best investment of 2020. I joined this community because I heard great things about their curriculum and mentorship program. Great communication, fast response, very flexible, and I now have mentors that are willing to guide me through my career. -
Jorge Londono
Learning at your own pace
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My favorite part of Springboard is the ability to learn at your own pace. I was able to schedule when I was going to go through the curriculum and take as much time as I found necessary. There were weeks when I really immersed myself in the course work, while there were other weeks when I took it easy. Likewise, career coaching truly made the course more than just a skills bootcamp. It really transformed how I view job searching, and the best strategies to get into the industry. -
Helena Conrad
UX Career Track
Springboard met my expectations and even more. Special Thanks to my mentor who was always encouraging of my progress. -
Keshav Mantha
Great mentorship, decent resources, solid overall experience.
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I am a career changer going from healthcare/medicine into data science and the information sector. I completed Springboard's Data Science Prep Course in anticipation of continuing on with their main Data Science Career Track. Coming from a place of limited coding experience, the Prep Course was definitely a great way to get my hands dirty in some of the technical aspects of coding and what the role of a data scientist may be. There are small projects sprinkled throughout to help build your understanding and comfort with the content. Some of the resources are a bit irrelevant in their applicability to real world problem solving, and are not easily translated to a professional setting. However, this is fine overall because their main goal is to get you prepped for their 6-month career track.
The best part about this experience is definitely the mentorship. My mentor was incredibly helpful throughout my 4 weeks in the course. He was always engaged during our weekly meetings, and was very open to offering me advice outside of that time via fast email response. The mentorship is by far the highlight of the course, and got me excited to continue on with the Career Track.
Overall, I'd recommend this course to anyone with a limited coding background considering doing a bootcamp, as it gives you those basic tools to pass the technical skills assessment and gives you the confidence to endure a 6 month bootcamp. The course is affordable and your tuition gets applied as a credit towards the already-affordable price of the full Springboard Career Tracks. -
Molly Foote
Sets you up for success
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Springboard's data analytics program was a great introduction into data analysis using Excel, SQL, Python, PowerBI and Tableau. Depending on your background, some units may be review and others may be more challenging. The program does a good job of covering the data analyst skills while also preparing you for a data analyst career. I would definitely recommend Springboard to anyone looking to advance then skills and career. -
Aileen Li
Great UX learning experience with mentor support and real life project
This course takes you through many UX-relevant topics and you get to work on projects that likely mimic UX work in the real world (including a real world industry lab project). Robust mentor program where you don't get just your own mentor, but to tap into a network of Springboard mentors as well. Good preparation for starting a UX career. -
Taylor
UX/UI Design Career Track
Very comprehensive program, would recommend to anyone making a career change! -
Sarah Hwang
Great program
I worked on my UX/UI track program with Springboard full-time for 4.5 months. I learned a lot and completed the course with a full portfolio with 4 case studies that I am proud of. -
ian shaw
Great Start into UX Design
Excellent experience, very thorough education, mentor-led and project-driven so you really get a sense of what the job will entail. The organization was exceptional with dealing with COVID as well offering additional pauses if you needed etc. -
Carolyn Twomey
Jumpstarted my career in UX Writing
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I highly recommend Springboard to anyone pursuing a career in UX (Design, Writing, Research, etc). If you're a self-led learner and extremely driven to get into UX, you'll get a ton of value out of the program and will feel prepared to pivot your career like I did.
Earlier this year, I decided to pivot my career from Copywriting to UX Writing. I knew I needed to learn the UX process since it's different from the way I was used to working, so I started researching a few different programs. There are UX Writing-specific courses which sound great, but for me, I wanted to maximize my investment by not only learning the UX process, but also becoming proficient in a new marketable skill (in my case, visual design). I knew 2 people who had gone through Springboard's UX Design Career track and they had good experiences. Because of COVID, all courses were enrolling online anyways, so that made my decision a bit easier.
Overall, I thought that the Springboard experience was outstanding: quality curriculum; supportive and highly responsive network of mentors, coaches and advisors; ability to move at your own pace (for me: fast). I loved that the curriculum not only covered practical UX skills, but also included career-building units to help you network and improve your resume, so you're ready to apply to jobs right after you complete the course. I had a wonderful mentor who shared his real-world UX expertise during our weekly meetings, and if I ever had a question or issue, the student advisor for my cohort was always available to help. I also loved my career coach calls--valuable time with actual recruiters in the industry who help you navigate the job search from updating your LinkedIn to salary negotiation. After I completed the portfolio unit, I immediately got traction in my job search. I presented projects from my Springboard coursework during the interviews, and felt comfortable talking about UX principles with my interviewers, based on what I had learned in the course. I ultimately accepted a senior-level role before the course ended, which was my "above and beyond" goal going into the program. -
Dmitri Kochubei
Really good course with great 1:1 mentorship programme
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If you are reading this, you probably know about Springboard a thing or two. So I will just go for the important stuff:
The way I see it Springboard gives you a very nice combo: you get to work on a lot of practical stuff and you get to pick brain of a professional. You can't overestimate the value of having your questions by someone who is working in the field that you are trying to get into. These 2 points (practice and mentor calls) are what is great about Springboard. What's not so good about it? I think the curriculum can be improved. But again it's coming back to mentor calls, you can always consult with your mentor what to look for and what things to pay more attention to.
Overall it's a great course as it makes the hard process of navigating the first steps in data science way easier. -
Lis Geraci
Career focused online learning
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Pros:- Mentor Support - Weekly calls with an industry expert helps to keep you on track, gets you un-stuck on projects, and be challenged in new areas. 30 minutes every week.
- Career Support - Interspersed with the coursework are career-focused units. So you aren't starting to network at the end of the course, but instead, you've been doing it from the beginning. Very important aspect of the online nature of Springboard.
- Curriculum - Strong content with varied ways to learning. I'd say the course content itself (not including your projects) is 65% articles, 25% videos, 5% podcasts, and 5% hands-on software learning.
Cons:- Collaboration is Lacking - There are no group projects, which means you'll be entering the job market having no experience communicating with others - design decisions or timelines, etc.
- Internship is Weak - a ~40 hour internship with a "client" who wants a student to do free work for them is not going to impress your future job prospects. This experience is lacking in helpful feedback, mentor coaching, and tangible outcomes.
- Accelerated Timeline - You'll be working on coursework at *least* 20 hours a week. This is doable with a full time job, but you won't have any free time for those 6 months.
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Isadora
Data Science Career Track
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Pros: Great way to get your bearings navigating through the ocean of material available to learn data science. The most helpful part of the course was hands down the mentor. After the course, you will have a solid foundational understanding of programming, stats and ML as well as a good portfolio to showcase to potential employer.
Cons: There is a LOT of material so I will say I felt 6 months was a rather aggressive timeline to complete the course. Be prepared to dedicate at least 8 hours/weekly over their estimates. -
Aydin
Data Analytics Career Track
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I've just completed Data Analytics Career Track. The curriculum provides tremendous technical trainings using Excel, Tableau, Power BI, Python and SQL which I found them very useful. Study cases were good enough to improve technical skills. I found access to unlimited calls with mentors and career coach services very helpful. Overall I had a great experience and suggested to any one who like to peruse a career as a Data Analyst. -
Dat Nghiem
UX Design
Fun and engaging course. Helps you explore and learn UX tools used by industry along with projects reflecting real life experiences. -
Tristan
UI/UX Design
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What you should know: there aren't instructors as such. It's mostly self-directed learning with weekly online mentor meetings.
Really impressed by their industry design placement - they took my request to work on enterprise into account. Also, so far the job search services are pretty great, which is to say while I personally despise marketing myself they are basically requiring me to do it to keep the job guarantee. This is a good thing!
The job guarantee! It is important that the schools incentives are aligned with the students.
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Shela Duong
UI / UX Design Career Track
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I am currently a student at Springboard's UI/UX Design career Track. So far the experience has been good. There is a lot of support to guide you on your journey. I switched from the software engineering track to the UI/UX design track. I was scared that I wouldn't be able to do it since I found that I really enjoyed designing more than coding. Luckily, they were very accommodating for my situation and all my needs and questions were met. The experience has been really good that I would take Springboard again! -
Minakshi Mohanty
Excellent Overall Experience
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It is a fully loaded course. They are very flexible about timeline and pace and they keep checking in on you. The technical resources are well structured. You will get enough practice, and the 2 capstone projects are important. I completed my course in June. The interviews I am getting have all been focussed around my capstone.
The career coaching resources are good. Make sure you follow the guidelines, they are very helpful. Make sure to get your resume and cover letter reviewed. The career coaches and mentors all give constructive reviews on your work and skills. That really helps you work on your profile. -
Mina Malloy
UX Career Track
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I researched a lot of bootcamps before deciding on this one but ultimately, I chose Springboard for the flexibility, (relative) affordability, and the fact that it is project based. The UX Career Track at Springboard is a fully remote course with theoretical reading, projects, and mentorship from UX professionals as well as career coaches. You can go at your own pace but students typically finish in 6 months. Overall, I am very happy with Springboard. I was able to come out of it with 3 solid portfolio projects, a foundation in UX design, and great career support.
Some pros and cons:
Pros:- A lot of mentorship and support when you need it
- You come out of it with 3 portfolio-ready projects
- One of them is an "internship" where you get real-world experience with a real company
- There is a lot of emphasis on career-building which is important IMO
- It is flexible so you can work full time while taking the course (definitely not an easy thing to do though)
- A Slack community with support and resources
- Support services were very helpful and gave me extra support when COVID hit
Cons:- A lot of the time the career coaches were overbooked and it was hard to get a timeslot that worked for me.
- Some of the assignments in the curriculum were vague and I needed extra assistance.
- It can be difficult to push yourself when you're not studying in-person.
Overall, if you're looking to get a foundation in UX Design and build up a UX portfolio, I highly recommend it. I'm very happy I chose Springboard! -
Steffy Verheggen
Great overall experience
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Pro's:
. Amazing team that will stand by you day and night with whatever crosses your path
. Great support! Springboard will work with whatever you need.
. Really nice and motivating platform
. Good exercises
. Real life experience with the IDP
. If you live in the right location, there are a lot of payment options
. Great extra features like a mentor and business coach who preps you from interviews, to workfloor to presentations to give you a full backpack of recourses and skills
. 6 month job guarantee if you live in USA or Canada
. Stay connected even after the course with a career coach
CONS:
. Mentor is a hit or miss but you can easily talk to springboard about this and they match you with another one
. Can be a bit pricey
. Sometimes the exercises are a little bit excessive, especially in the beginning
. Some chapters are not elaborated enough while others are too detailed.
Overall great experience and would highly recommend!! The UX UI course is normally 9 months but I was able to work on it full time and finished it in 5 months. Im not looking for a job right now but the industry seems very promising and Im not too worried to find a job once I start applying. Springboard has a 6 month job guarantee as well and they help you even prep for interviews and what to do to find a job etc. -
Jonathan
UX/UI Career Course - Well Worth It
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I decided to make a career shift and enrolled in Springboard's UX/UI course. The program was well rounded and helped me go from no experience to having confidence in my job search. Springboard curates their curriculum which has its pros and cons - but overall the curriculum was well rounded, informative, and practical. The mentor process was very helpful and by far my favorite part of the program. The career services are also EXCELLENT. Finally, the staff was very supportive, flexible, understanding, and professional throughout the process. -
Anna Kantur
Data Science foundations in 6 months
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I attended the Data Science Career Track bootcamp for a little over 6 months. The curriculum is a combination of DataCamp courses, Harvard lectures, other videos and projects. I especially liked practicing Spark and machine learning. The curriculum flows very well, and there was a thought behind the order (even though they can improve it by fixing some errors). If you do the career part of the curriculum, you receive a job guarantee. You get weekly 1:1 calls with a mentor, projects support, online community support, career coach calls, and student advisor help. Overall, it was a good curse for the money I invested in it, and I would recommend others to do it. -
Fatima Maroni-Rana
UX Career Track
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After completing the UX career track at Springboard I felt fully equipped to take what I had learn and proceed in a new career direction. There is a lot of material to cover and even more that is optional, so you really get out as much as you put in. My favorite part was the 1:1 mentoring, the expert guidance really helped me stay on track, move in the right direction and get a much better understanding of concepts. Also I'm working with the career services team now while job hunting and they have been so great. I've never really had the support or guidance like this before, it has been so helpful and beneficial. I would definitely recommend Springboard. -
Talayeh Motameni
UX Career Track
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I have really enjoyed my course at Springboard, the 1:1 mentorship, career coaching, and industry project were highlights of my course. I believe the job assistance is very helpful, they stay accountable to their promises and you stay accountable to your deliverables. I really enjoyed my industry project as I received 1st hand experience as a UX Researcher/ Designer. It is a great course that you can take remotely and I highly recommend it! -
Brett Oliver
UX Career Path
Springboard has a great curriculum that explains the UX design process while implementing hands on learning with projects. You also get a personal industry expert mentor who you speak with every week and even get to speak with career coaches throughout the course that help with the job searching. I would highly recommend this course for anyone trying to start a career in User experience. -
Sayantan Chattopadhyay
"A worthwhile experience to get more hands on with data science."
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I have recently completed the Data Science Career Track at Springboard and am very pleased with the overall experience. I believe that the 1-on-1 mentorship is the real strength of this course along with all the projects that give great hands-on experience. It is extensive and can take a long time to complete but the course is designed in a way that people without technical backgrounds and strong coding skills should not feel lost. If like me you do have a coding background, while the initial portions of the course may seem easy, there is a great variety of resources that are great for review. The team at Springboard is also supportive and flexible allowing you to proceed at your own pace offering breaks and extensions when applicable. Career support is also an important aspect of the course and the career coaches take time to help you optimize your job search and narrow down what you really want. It is expensive but I believe the resources provided give you all the opportunity to get your money's worth. Finally, I would like to add that while there are flexible methods of payment, some allowing you to pay a majority of the course fees after completing the course and getting a job, a lot of these options were exclusive to American citizens when I applied. The job guarantee does cover Toronto, which is where I am based, so I would love Springboard to provide similar options of payment for Canadian citizens -
Nick Varner
I would skip it
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I thought I would give Springboard a try based on some of the reviews and price, but I would recommend skipping it. Although the syllabus for the program is attractive and taught by a good instructor you could find a lot of his courses on Udemy for a fraction of the cost. One of the reasons I went with Springboard was they advertised a Mentorship who you could call on and meet up with at the end of every week. I ended up NEVER getting matched with a mentor throughout the entire course. It was a pretty big waste of money overall. At the end they give you some practice problems, but there's no solutions so if you end up getting stuck, you're stuck there. Maybe that is what the mentor call thing was for, but like I said I was never matched. I would skip this and buy some cheaper options.
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Nicole Smith
Springboard UX/UI career track
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Springboard is awesome and allowed me
The opportunity to become “unstuck” in life. I was able to learn at my own pace, since I needed more time than the 6 months I was able to do that easily. You have a lot of support in multiple forms. They understand the goal is to GET A JOB and I really appreciated their awareness of that. If you are interested in a career in UX/UI this option is beyond awesome -
Teran Togia
UX Design Career Track
Springboard is not as expensive as other bootcamps, but it provides the same if not more value than many others. I think what I appreciated most about my experience was the fact that I had a personal mentor to check in with every week. I could ask questions and receive immediate feedback on projects so that I was clear on what I was doing. The job guarantee is just icing on the cake. -
yuanchun wang
Data science career track
1. The course designs very organized and even for a data science beginner, I start from easy part and dig into the difficult one.
2. The mentor is very professional and 1:1 mentor call encourages me to keep going and never give up.
3. The in-time response from career coach all and student advisor also give me a lot of instructions. -
Chuanyi Qin
Great course, highly recommended!
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I am really glad that I took this course. The curriculum is well structured with a lot of reading and hands-on projects. Mentorship, in my opinion, is one of the most valuable parts of the course. I get to work with my mentor Noemi 1 on 1 each week, and her expertise and insight helped me tremendously. The slack student community is a perfect resource for recruiting participants for interviews and testings. But the course is not easy. I normally spent around 30 hours per week in the study. It is a lot of work, but all worth it in the end. -
Sudheera Charan
"Disappointing Spring board India Data Science Immersive - Poor Instructors and Incomplete Curriculum"
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Participated in the Data Science cohort. It started off strong, but quickly fell apart after the first module, when the material shifted from standard coding techniques that were adapted from the datacamp course to more data/math focused topics. Our teacher was under-qualified to be teaching us Data Science, and we received essentially zero feedback on our coursework throughout the 15 week program. I honestly do not believe the curriculum was ready for launch, it felt way too rushed. Numerous topics advertised as part of the course were skipped or rushed through. Some of the labs and lectures were riddled with errors, and often we were not provided lecture notes or videos as promised. The 3rd module consisted of watching youtube videos 50% of the time - didn't really need to pay 1.95 lakh for that.
The career guidance was misleading, we were told our guidance counselor would be randomly selected, yet 10 of 12 students received the same coach. The career team always seemed like they placed their personal interests ahead of mine.
I feel like the program was rushed, misleadingly advertised, and did not really prepare me for a job in Data Science.
As an aside, I recommend actually sifting through these reviews before signing up - many of them are from people who have only completed the free bootcamp prep. I was asked to write a review before starting the class but refused because I thought that was misleading.
Overall, if you are interested in a bootcamp, definitely attend one! Just be very skeptical of all promises made to you in inquiries, interviews, etc and I would definitely recommend going somewhere other than Spring board. -
Sirisha pallamreddy
"Save your time and money. This is the worst bootcamp. Assignments and feedback do not exist for one to actually succeed."
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I started this Spring board India data science Career track program with broken promises. Before enrolling the school GUARANTEED A FULL TIME JOB OR A FULL REFUND. None of it has happened. The first month was great the easy stuff. The months moving forward I was assigned about 7 different mentors. Reasons being they did not know data science or they would direct me to google. A lot of times the mentors would complain about the low rate of pay.
If they didn't like you or if you did not meet a certain requirement they would again point you to google or say they don't know the subject matter. About 75 % of the Q & A's I registered for were cancelled, no reason was given. The curriculum is outdated and old it is a lot of reading and more reading. The mentors are not experienced at all. They just come to collect a paycheck and update their skills on the expense of the students. The school does not monitor the mentor sessions or the Q & A sessions which are just a waste of time. The slack channel your questions will go unanswered or if they answer it they will shame you and point you to an article on how to ask questions. I was not a professional programmer I was a student looking to learn. This program is not designed for students to be successful. Not a single assignment was graded or was any feedback given.
Save yourself the time and money go buy the same course on udemy for $10 bucks. Employers do not look at education they look what can you build. The stuff learned here I was not even able to get a UNPAID internship.
spring board is one of the most expensive bootcamps out there. And naturally, I thought it would be one of the best out there. It also had so many good reviews. Now, I think they remove all the bad reviews and just keep the good ones.
It is definitely not worth the money they ask. The curriculum is not that great and teachers are fine but pacing is just awful. Also, I can not stress this enough. You can not, You can not learn programming and become developer in few weeks. If you put effort and time, you can get same resources provided by springboard all over internet.
Do not go here.