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Anonymous
Do not recommend
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I am reviewing the Software Engineering Career Track. The only thing I would recommend about this program is the job guarantee. Curriculum teaches Python, which is a great language for devOps and data science, but this is a limiting option for software engineers. There are many more jobs for those who know C# and Java. In addition, the experience with my mentor was disappointing and there wasn't enough of a social aspect to the bootcamp. After awhile, I also found myself fatigued by the sheer number of videos I had to watch. They should break it up with some text here and there, but they don't really consider this from a user experience standpoint. -
Anonymous
Datascience CT
Attended data science career track and overall great curriculum and very nice mentor, however it can be all different since there are so many mentors and i did not like my first one -
Anonymous
Great online course
I had very positive experience with Springboard. The extremely flexible self-learning pace schedule, the thorough curriculum which makes on understand every concept from the ground up, expertised mentors, supportive course advisers and a great community - everything that one needs to begin a career in Data Anyltics is right there. Highly recommend taking the course. -
Anonymous
My experience in Springboard Data Science track
My overall experience in the Data Science track was positive and satisfying. The team was so responsive and eager to help. I’ve received instant and constructive feedback on my assignments and enjoyed my time in this course. I highly recommend it. -
Anonymous
Data Analytics Career Track
PROS
1. Study at your pace:
2. On-demand mentorship
3. One on one career coach
4. Flexible payment
5. Weekly group call
5. Take a break when you feel overwhelmed. etc..
CONS
There is no disadvantage to this course, had a positive experience all through. -
Anonymous
I had a great experience!
My overall experience with Springboard was great. I am transitioning from the scientific research field into the design industry, and I felt the materials presented in the course was sufficient at providing the necessary tools to gain UI/UX design experience.
I feel like a student will get the most of out of this course if they push themselves independently. -
Anonymous
Great overall
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Pros:
Mentor support, career services, job guarantee, curriculum content, flexibility.
Cons:
Curriculum delivery
This was my second bootcamp experience, after having a misunderstanding about the job guarantee with the first one. Once I vetted Springboard's job guarantee, it was a no-brainer to sign up. At the time of this writing (March 2022) I had an option to pay only after I received a qualifying position, or else I wouldn't have to pay at all.
The curriculum is outstanding for the small timeframe that it's delivered in. My only wish is that it was delivered in a different format so that I could have used my phone to work on it instead of having to be at my computer for it.
The mentor experience and career services are absolutely top notch for Springboard.
My wife had a baby in the middle of my cohort, and Springboard allowed my to pause for a very generous amount of time with 0 repercussions to the job guarantee or completion. I cannot put into words that amount of relief that washed over me once they gave me that option.
Great overall experience, with small matters for improvement, but nothing that really detracts from the course. I definitely recommend Springboard to anyone looking to change careers. -
Anonymous
An overpriced waist of time
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This program is a total waist of money. You can easily learn everything they teach you here and pay 1/6th of the price tag. ALL of the coding lessons come from data camp, so right there you can easily just pay for the data camp data science career track and you just saved yourself a pretty penny. Then they just copy and paste some web articles into the curriculum. Its absolutely ridiculous that you have to pay thousands more for data camp with a bunch of hype. I still haven't found a job and its been over 6 months because people don't take the career track as experience. My 'Mentors' didn't really teach me anything to be honest they just tell me to look stuff up online. Again this program is a joke and you are the punchline, don't be dumb enough to give scam artists your money. This program is exactly what it smells like a diploma mill churning out class after class of dumb sheep who are too embarrassed to admit they bought in to the lie. A total waist of time and money DO NOT BUY THIS COURSE !! -
Anonymous
Springboard
Springboard does what it says. It gives you a firm foundation in technical skills overseen by industry experts with a world class curriculum. Highly recommended and hope it does for you what it did for me! -
Anonymous
Hard work, great pay off
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I was in the Data Science Career Track course. This course was a bit expensive, but I was motivated by the job guarantee, and that a data science job would help me to afford the loan payments at the end of the course. I was able to get a job the month before I completed the course! I am making $78,000 at my entry level Data Science position in Texas.
I was applying for Data Science jobs since before starting the course, and as I progressed I saw improvements in my applications. Having the Career Service advisor's help looking over my resume and LinkedIn. After 2 months I began receiving skill assessments from my applications, 3-4 months in the course I was finally getting into the first round of interviews, and after 6 months I was getting call backs for 2nd round interviews.
The assignments early on prepared me very well for the skill assessments I was receiving. I applied to IBM for an entry level position early in the course, and I felt confident just from what I had done in preparation for the Guided Capstone (the first project SpringBoard has you work on). While I didn't pass this assessment it was good to see that what I was actively learning was something I was going to see out in the real world. Now in my current job, I am already utilizing the skills I learned during this course at my job.
The course however is tough to keep up with, and it did take me 8 months instead of the advertised 6. I felt like a lot of important information at the end was very glossed over, while the middle of the course had some very in-depth projects. I understand it's done this way on purpose so you can focus on your final project but I do wish there had been more information in times series, SQL, and tools we would likely be asked to use on the job (like Power BI, Tableau, etc.). My current job is very Excel heavy and using pivot tables, and a quick assignment covering some of the basic skills a we might use (beyond the normal basics) could prepare a new hire for success. -
Anonymous
Be prepared to work hard for your success!
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Software Engineering isn't for everyone, so make sure you understand what the day-to-day and challenging parts of an SE career are like by talking to developers in the field. This program is intensive, but even so, expect to dive deeper into books, docs, and other sources outside of the material to learn if you are new to programming. The mentorship program is wonderful and this camp will help you build lots of projects for your portfolio. You have unlimited access to career coaches so make sure you take advantage of their help when it comes to your job search and hit those data structures, algorithms, and leetcode early on in the course to prepare yourself for the job search. -
Anonymous
Software Engineering Career Prep
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I tried learning software development on my own but it was slow and inefficient. I thought I would try the prep course to feel things out and was blown away. The course is unbelievably well laid out and understandable. I started with very limited exposure to coding and just took my time with the content. I struggled briefly with the final assessment because they really challenge you. I appreciate the challenge and studied/practiced what they provided and managed to pass the next time. It felt so good to solve the problems on my own. I feel much more confident going into the career track now. -
Anonymous
Great experience
I had a great experience. The course was relatively easy to follow and both mentors and Springboard team were very professional. They were very prompt about any questions I had, and always offered support for any issues that came up. A challenging course, but not beyond my initial expectations. -
Anonymous
UI/UX Design Career Track
A curriculum that can piss you off sometimes, but the fruit of the hardwork and decision to enroll in Springboard are what makes me so proud of myself today. -
Anonymous
UI/UX Design Career Track Program
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I just completed Springboard's UI/UX program and can confidently say that this was the best decision I made! Before starting the program, I researched numerous other boot camps and although Springboard was on the pricier side, it also offered the most benefits. Yes, other boot camps may have things they do that Springboard doesn't but what drew me in was the amount of mentorship and career support they had to offer. Weekly calls with an assigned mentor, career mentorship throughout the program (plus weekly/bi-weekly career support once you finish), and support within the Springboard community. I will say, if you are thinking about Springboard, take advantage of the unlimited mentor calls! Even though I had an assigned mentor that I met with on a weekly basis, sometimes I needed a different perspective on things or just some extra help and having those unlimited mentor calls helped me out a ton! -
Anonymous
Experience is what you make of it
Overall if you take the time to study and practice, you will be come a great designer. -
Anonymous
Ux/Ui designer
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I don't see any cons with Springboard. Mentors, career counsellors, student advisors are all great . All the mentors are great and knowledgable in their feild. The pros that I felt are note worthy are flexible hours, mentors are so full of knowledge, the way curriculum is organised and the job guarantee program. The main reason to take up this course was, It had the flexibility, everything was structured like mentor calls, projects, and the way all the topics were self explanatory. -
Anonymous
UX/UI Bootcamp
The program was focused and streamlined. It provides all the necessary readings and teachings to grain competence and confidence in the product design industry. Mentors and community are extremely helpful. -
Anonymous
Data Science Career Track Review
I am very satisfied with the overall experience. Shortly after finishing I was able to land a job in Data Science (in Germany- I am German). The material provides a great overview on the topic, though some of it could be improved. The mentor calls were extremely helpful and motivating for me. Career support was also great. -
Anonymous
Data Science Career Track
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Pros:
Datacamp resource - I really liked in-browser coding paired with short lecture videos to be very effective to get practice with the key parts of data science problem solving. There were lots of practice exercises that helped give me a better understanding of the concepts.
Mentorship - I really liked my mentor, he was very experienced and had lots of industry knowledge, and it was obvious he had a strong grasp of the subject matter. As a part of the curriculum you work on 2 Capstone projects, and several other ad-hoc projects with the guidance of your mentor. My mentor provided helpful feedback and advice for lot of the machine learning methods I tried and gave me a starting point to work on the project.
Cons: Many parts of Springboard curriculum is just reading articles on data science or youtube recordings which can be find online. The video/audio quality was not the best. I think it would have been much better for Springboard to make some videos covering perhaps similar material but improve audio and video quality and create a more cohesive curriculum instead of many seemingly unrelated videos.
Also, none of the assignments have answer keys provided to students, so there are not many ways to check your work. The machine learning unit's videos and assignments are almost entirely taken from a college class. The ad hoc projects were useful to get practical examples to refer to, but a few lectures from the class did not feel adequately sufficient to develop a good understanding of machine learning concepts and AI techniques. -
Anonymous
Very Thorough!
If you have a baseline knowledge of statistics, business and Excel then this is a very great course! Personally, I did not have any knowledge of Excel prior to this course and very little in business and finances, so it took me a bit longer to finish the course. However, beyond that, the SQL, Python, and Tableau/Power BI skills were amazing and intuitive. Highly recommend! -
Anonymous
Waste of money
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I don’t write reviews, but I have to write this particular review and warn others to be careful. Springboard doesn’t teach you anything for their Data Science track program. Don’t waste your good credit score, you will end up being in debt. Their curriculum is poor, and their mentorship program sucks so badly. They basically don’t add any value to you as a student. You will still end up being jobless and in debts due to some hidden clauses in their contracts.
If your goal in going to Springboard is to get a job, as was mine, then go to Udemy or Data camp and save money. Springboard charges $7500 for their Data Science Track whilst you can get those same courses on Udemy or data camp for as little as $25.
My girlfriend warned me not to registered for springboard, but I didn’t listen to her and went ahead to register for springboard tuition deferred payment. Four months down in the program, I traveled internationally with the approval from my springboard mentor, only to return two months’ afterwards and springboard had canceled my class. No word from my mentor or any of the springboard administrators, only for me to get a bill (six months after they canceled me from the course) asking me to pay $7500. What the fuck? Why didn’t you send me a bill immediately you canceled me from the program if I owed you? Why wait 6 months afterwards and now telling me to pay you $7500? I am still talking to my lawyers to fight this reap off and unprofessional conduct of Springboard as the debt is now referred to collection agencies. One of their representatives contacted me by email apologizing for their unprofessional conduct but the apology hasn’t wiped off the bill. I still have to pay them $7500 through the collection agency.
Please don’t let springboard mess you up and mess your credit score too like they have done to me. Find a better and cheaper learning platforms like Udemy and Data camp. Also, learn to listen to your girlfriend or wife.
Dave of Springboard
Student Advisor
Nov 10, 2022
Hello,
Thank you for your review and bringing our attention to this issue. Here at Springboard we set a really high standard to support our students towards a positive learning experience and securing a job in the field upon graduating, and are truly sorry that that standard was not met while you were in the course.
Our Data Science Career Track is one of our longest running and most established programs that we offer, with a proven history of over 92% of grads landing a job in the field within one year of graduating, and an average increase of over $23,000 between their pre- and post-course salaries. The curated curriculum consists of the most cutting edge resources available to learn from, as selected by our team of industry experts and instructional designers. Additionally, we also have an extensive career curriculum integrated directly into the data science curriculum so that students can prepare to land their dream job simultaneously as they develop their technical skills.
Furthermore, we offer an extensive support system to all of our students. This includes weekly 1:1 mentorship calls with a data science professional throughout the duration of the course, 1:1 meetings with career coaches, and assigned student advisors to provide assistance with online learning, time management, and ensuring that students are set up for success.
We recognize that life happens and sometimes students need to step away from the course for a time, and we have a formalized process for students to take breaks in these instances by working together with their student advisor. This process is covered in detail during orientation and there is ample information available on the student 'Help' page in the course dashboard as well. It sounds like this process may have been misunderstood in your case, and if that was due to a miscommunication on our part, then we sincerely apologize.
We are always open to reviewing issues like this on a case-by-case basis and will work with students individually to find a fair solution, especially if the issue was due to any shortcoming on Springboard's part. If you felt that there was anything we could have done better to support you towards a successful experience in the course, we value that feedback and would love to hear from you. Please feel free to contact advising@sprinboard.com and schedule a call with us.
Thank you once again for your review and we look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Dave Austin
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Anonymous
UX Designer
An amazing experience, adequately resourced with theory, practical training, industry experience, student support, and a rich and firm curriculum, with job guarantee. I recommend to anyone, especially those transiting to tech. -
Anonymous
Data Analytics Career Track
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Springboard offers 1 on 1 mentorship which guide me through the technical material in the weekly calls and help me develop my technical skills for the industry. On top of a fixed weekly mentor call, there are unlimited on-demand mentor calls that helps me resolve the technical issues when I went through the curriculum. Springboard have curated the best resources which provided me with the best selection of content and the 2 capstone projects got me into the real world experience. The career service is strong, the career coach and placement service really help the student keep positive and work toward my goal. -
Anonymous
Horrible experience
Complete waste of time and money. Info was all culled from free internet sources that were well known. Only useful for brand new grads with zero knowledge of anything.Dave of Springboard
Student Advisor
Nov 10, 2022
Hello,
Thank you for your review, we are sorry to hear if you did not feel you got the most value out of your course.
Although we no longer offer our Digital Marketing course, this was tailored for learners with a wide range of backgrounds and experience. The curated curriculum consisted of some of the best resources available on the subject as selected by our team of industry experts and instructional designers. If you felt like there could have been more included that would have been useful to you, we value this feedback and would love to hear more. Please feel free to contact advising@springboard.com to schedule a call with us.
We hope all is well and look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Dave Austin
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Anonymous
A good platform to learn UI/ UX Design.
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Springboard is a good platform to learn UI/UX Design. It is a well-designed course. Though it is an online course, one always gets support from the community. The community mentor, Student advisor, Career coach everyone is very approachable and always there to help.
Highlights of the course.- Expert 1:1 mentors for all students
- Job offers guaranteed to graduates
- Well-built and easy to follow syllabi
- Excellent for career-building
- Lots of hands-on student projects
- Financing options available
- Lifetime access to materials
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Anonymous
Top Notch Experience
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I really liked the syllabus that covered topics that are essential for a data analyst role. The weekly mentor calls helped me to be on track with the course and the on-demand mentor calls were always a savior whenever I faced a roadblock. The mentors are all highly knowledgeable industry experts. And lastly, the carrier coaching also helped me to prepare confidently for upcoming job interviews. I would highly recommend any aspiring data analyst to take this course. -
Anonymous
Data science career track
Waste of time and money. They are attracting people with job guarantee tag. But, it has lot of conditions. There is no proper curriculum. Course material is not own. It has just links from various websites. Not much use of mentor and career coach. I learnt lot from free courses than from Springboard. BIG NO NO.Dave of Springboard
Student Advisor
Nov 10, 2022
Hello,
Thank you for your feedback, we are sorry to hear if you do not feel you got the most value out of your course.
We do proudly back our programs up with a Job Guarantee, meaning that we are so confident in our program's ability to prepare you for a career in the field, that we guarantee you'll land a job in the field within 6 months of graduating or your tuition money back. To best set students up for a successful career search, we do expect that they will meet certain requirements, which include completing all of the career-readiness units in the curriculum, covering topics such as updating your LinkedIn and resume, networking strategies, writing cover letters, salary negotiation, and a vigorous mock interview process. Students meet with career coaches regularly along the way, both during and after the course, to support them with their job search.
Our curriculum also consists of the best resources available for both technical subject matter as well as career readiness, as curated by our team of industry experts, career coaches, and instructional designers. Throughout the course, students have access to a number of resources and subject matter experts who can provide support and feedback on exercises: weekly calls with your assigned mentor throughout the entire course, Teaching Assistants, weekly office hours, as well as an online Slack community where students can ask and answer questions with their peers, alumni, and professionals in the field. If you were not aware of any of these resources and how to take advantage of them, that's a miss on our part, and we sincerely apologize.
We'd love to connect with you to hear more about your experience and learn how we could have done better. If you are open to discussing this with us, please reach out to advising@springboard.com and we'd be happy to schedule a call.
Sincerely,
Dave Austin
Springboard Advising Team -
Anonymous
Data Science
Waste of time and money.Dave of Springboard
Student Advisor
Nov 10, 2022
Hello,
Thank you for your review. We're sorry to hear that you did not feel you got the most value out of your course. We take feedback like this very seriously and would love to hear more about how your expectations may not have been met and how we could have done better. If you are open to discussing this further, we invite you to contact advising@springboard.com to schedule a call with us.
We hope all is well and look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Dave Austin
Springboard Advising Team -
Anonymous
Affordable and job forward
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The ability to work at your own pace was amazing.
They give you a ton of help and resources to get you a job. It wasnt just about UX design it was how to get a job in UX. Their career coaches and mock interviews, and resume help was a huge game changer.
Be aware that the timeline to finish earlier than 9months may be a little off. Some of the projects at the end of the course take longer than I anticipated and pushed my graduation/completion back 1month. So plan extra time at the end for that. -
Anonymous
Springboard; Best Decision Ever
I just completed my UI/UX Design course and couldn't be happier. The journey was a bit challenging as I was changing my career, but Springboard mentors and advisors' continuous support made it smooth for me. If you are in the same boat as me and want to excel in your career, I advise you to look no further and choose Springboard. Best of luck. -
Anonymous
UI/UX Bootcamp
9-month remote-only UI/UX Design Bootcamp with job gaurentee. Program provides a well rounded foundation in UX/UI. Curriculum is at times rather broad and goes beyond the scope of a focused Bootcamp (ie building presention skills). Don't underestimate the time commitment to complete. It would probably be hard to do while working FT. -
Anonymous
Data Science bootcamp success
Pros
Loved the coach calls and the mentors. They were great. The community always had my back. I love that they didn’t recreate the wheels with content but laid it out nicely. Because it can be hard to navigate.
Cons
I got a data science job 4 months in an had to work on both at the same time. Not a bad problem to have though. Plus the company reached out to me! -
Anonymous
amazing data analytics program
the curriculum flows nicely and prepares you for your new job in data analytics.
what i liked the most was the mentor program and the weekly call. i became close friends with my mentor in the end! -
Anonymous
Senior Web Designer
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I found Springboard through an online search of UX immersive boot camps. Springboard is one of the leading online boot camps, and while it is not the least expensive of the programs, I joined because it is more than just a UX/UI boot camp. They include in their course curriculum mentors with real UX professionals and career coaches, who not only help you develop the skills to become a UX/UI Designer but they work on all the other aspects needed to get a job; eg. network training, linked-in profiles, resumes, interviewing, etc. On top of that, they have a job placement program that helps you get a job once your course is completed. Because this is a self-directed online learning course, I would not recommend this course, if you are not able to motivate yourself to stay on track and on schedule. There is a lot of work and if you do not have the discipline to consistently complete the course work, this is not for you. But, if you can be self-directed, the program can be a great help to you landing a better job. -
Anonymous
Not worth it
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Just know if you need in depth help: customer service is a disconnected set of customer reps and a new person helps you each time. So every time you email them, someone else replies and if it isn't solved in first go, you need to repeat yourself. That will be a bigger deal if you need a whole bootcamp.
The mentor was very encouraging and helpful he was definitely my favorite part of this course. Glad to have connected to him because he gave some stellar resources.
The curriculum was no short of an unhelpful trainwreck. The narrator speaks fluently with industry jargon, explains none of it, talks and does the tasks within the videos very quickly. If you want to follow along there is constant pausing that becomes cumbersome and annoying. Some of the topics are so disconnected and dry that you can definitely use it cure insomnia.
He doesn't really tell you what or why you are doing the tasks, most of it looks like random junky exercises that have no real world connection so I have a hard time understanding how it would even connect to the design itself.
He simply isn't a teacher. He is a quintessential tech bro that is recording himself talk and giggling at his own jokes, rattling off phrases about things you ought to know but didn't teach. The intros are random phrases strung together of rules sets with no terms of definitions.
This is basically a sink or swim course and I've actually learned more for free off of youtube and freecodecamp. True bummer! My mistake not researching the course beforehand. What an expensive lesson to always review ratings beforehand! -
Anonymous
Data Analytics Track
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I started the course at the end of June 2020. The beginning of the course was great (the content in each of the units and the way they were built). But then in the Economics and Financial units, there were some videos we needed to watch, that I felt like were not in the level of what Springboard had so far.
I think I was mostly frustrated about DataCamp. I did not feel like I've learned too much from it, and needed to find other sources to study from.
The mentors (my mentor and the mentor on call) and the career coach I worked with were very professional, and I've learned a lot from them.
Even thought the content was sometimes not to what I've expected, I found the overall experience very positive. I was able to find a job in the field while still studying, so I am grateful for Springboard and everything they did for me. Now I am fulfilling a dream I always had and never had the time to pursue (until now). Thank you Springboard! -
Anonymous
UI/UX Career Track
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I took the UI/UX Career track with springboard. While an intensive program, this course gave me a thorough education and understanding of UX design that I had been seeking. The 1:1 mentorship was the highlight of my experience, since I got to talk face to face with someone that gave me constant support and encouragement. Although an online learning experience, springboard does its best to find ways to still build community. However I do think it would be great if there was more required interaction with peers through things such as group projects or critiques. Overall, it was great for my career because it not only taught me UX but it pushed me to network more and gave me resources to very current topics in the field of tech and design.
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Anonymous
Data Analytics Career track
I was always interested in data but only this year decided to try and learn a new skills! I went with Springboard due to high recommendations from my cycle! I enjoyed the curriculum very much as well as working with the industry professionals and career coaches! -
Anonymous
UX Career Track
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I would stay away from Springboard. Especially during this hard time of job search. I will be the first one to say that mentors are amazing. Career coaches are great as well. BUT mentors are overworked, and some have way too many students. Support for mentors is lacking as well. Career coaches are very busy, and sometimes you will be waiting weeks before the call. That "Unlimited Mentor Calls" claim doesn't hold any water either, the number of open slots for this varies, and if you're up against the deadline, I wouldn't rely on it. If you're one of the unlucky souls who do not land the job within the job search guarantee months, the refund process is horrendous. There is zero flexibility in where your money will be refunded. So if it was a credit card, that you have a balance on, best of luck. Also if you think you might be getting a refund, DO NOT REFER ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS/Acquaintances. They will take the $250 credit for the referral and count it towards your refund.