Springboard

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!

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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! 

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. 

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

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.

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 

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.

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.

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.

 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. 

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.

 I am currently enrolled in Springboard. This program is a complete joke. The curriculum is just a few articles and drills. You have a "mentor" who is supposed to answer questions and help you along the way. My mentor regularly just tells me to google things. They claim that is the best way to learn. If all I'm doing is googling then why pay them 1.95 lakhs? I tried to talk to my program manager who was very unhelpful also. I have been very displeased with this program from day 1.

They label themselves as self paced but in fact they have a schedule they want you to keep to and you HAVE TO have  meeting a week with your mentor. If you don't finish the program in 6 months you don't the job guarantee so I feel so much pressure to finish on time, when all I wanted was to be able to work at my own pace.

Would not recommend this to anyone. You're better off googling and taking free courses online. 

Springboard was perfect for my fluctuating work schedule. I was able to work at my own pace without set class dates and times. 

Pros:
- Career coaches and calls are really helpful during the job search
- Weekly mentor calls / unlimited mentors have helped me honed in my technical and critical thinking skills
- Two end to end capstone projects that made me really think about how I wanted to solve the problem
- Lots of small assignments that really tests your capabilities

Cons:
- Some of the materials were barely touched on / needed outside resource to better understanding
- Wish some of the projects were more hands on based rather than just videos
- Difference between difficulty of learning a material and applying it to a project was pretty big

Springboard has great curriculum. It will guide you till the end. The mentors are great and the student advicers and support people are amazing too. They really want to help you in completing the course. Also they have various modes of payment . They have various practise portals as well. Highly recommended.

I would recommend Springboard to anyone looking for career transition/advancement who wants to keep an open schedule. If I had the choice again, I would absolutely choose Springboard over an in-person program. Having the whole course online meant I set my own pace of study and supplemented when I felt necessary. The course material itself is great, with a fair mix of hands-on exercises and video lectures. The curriculum is littered with mini-projects for students to practice their new skills further. The best part of the program for me was probably the mentor experience. The weekly meetings are opportunities to not just review your capstone projects, but to learn how to think like a professional. If you ever feel like you need more time to discuss something (and those half hour sessions can feel short), most mentors are available for messaging or possibly even extra sessions. One thing I really liked about the program was the heavy focus on building essential non-technical skills, like networking or storytelling. Thanks to the course material and the career coaches, by graduation, I really felt like I was ready to enter the job market.

Here are some changes to the curriculum I would recommend:
- Make mini-project reviews more important. While I talked to my mentor about some of them, I never saw a single review in writing. I think this would be a great opportunity to discuss theory and practice code reviews.
- Course material needs to be expanded in some key areas. 
      -Deployment was limited to one Github mini-project and a very high-level overview video. Graduating students should probably have some familiarity with Docker or other software for productionization.
      - Distributed computing was covered in just two sets of exercises. I'd prefer if there were not just more material on the subject, but some more discussion of the underlying theory.
      - While this may have been a result of me taking the "generalist" track, I felt the material on deep learning was way too light. We were given only one optional exercise that worked with Keras, despite it being the easiest major DL framework to learn and the least likely to be implemented at scale. Even some more optional reading material would have been nice. 
  
In conclusion: if you're a self-starter, someone who likes to set their own schedule and do some of their own research, then pick Springboard.