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This school is now closed. Although The Iron Yard is no longer accepting students or running its program, you can still see historical information and The Iron Yard alumni reviews on the school page.
As of July 20, 2017, The Iron Yard is no longer accepting applications. The Iron Yard is a technology education company that offers software development courses both in person, and through corporate training programs across the US. The school offers full-time and part-time immersive programs in Web Development. Beginners can choose from Web Development Basics or Interactive Web Development courses. For career changers, The Iron Yard's flagship bootcamp is the Web Development Career Path, which takes students from zero to job ready. Graduates of the Web Development Career Path will be well-versed in front end and back end fundamentals, and participate in The Iron Yard's Career Support program.
The Iron Yard team strives to create real, lasting change for people, companies, and communities by equipping a diverse workforce with 21st-century digital skills. Since it was launched in 2013, The Iron Yard has prepared thousands of students for careers in technology.
Did I come out of the course as a front-end developer ready to dive into the tech-world? I can definitely make it look that way on paper to try and land me interviews, but the fact of the matter is this: I wanted so badly to convince myself these twelve sleepless weeks were worth it, that my final project was something creative and impressive that encompassed everything I painstakingly learned from the course, and that most importantly, I would get a return on my $12,000 investment; ...
Did I come out of the course as a front-end developer ready to dive into the tech-world? I can definitely make it look that way on paper to try and land me interviews, but the fact of the matter is this: I wanted so badly to convince myself these twelve sleepless weeks were worth it, that my final project was something creative and impressive that encompassed everything I painstakingly learned from the course, and that most importantly, I would get a return on my $12,000 investment; however, the more I think about it all, now that I've been able to sleep, I've realized that I walked away with not much more than a $12,000 "diploma" that may help me get my foot in the door and get some interviews. In no way do I feel like I actually learned what I wanted to convince myself I did.
I will go ahead and get this out of the way. There were two instructors. One was nice and approachable, and the other seemed as if he couldn't have cared less about being there. I remember once, on a Friday after class, the latter had gone to 'happy hour' and when he came back, I asked for help with something. He started to help, then stated he was too inebriated to assist me! I discounted this "instructor" immediately as being of any use to me
So, let's say that one "instructor" actually counted as one. There was still a 1:10 instructor to student ratio. With 22 students, The Iron Yard's budget was $264,000, which should have been more than enough to hire a couple more teachers. So why were there so many issues? I don't know, but here is a list of them:
- There was a huge disparity between the knowledge gained during lecture and the knowledge needed to complete the assignments. Thinking outside the box is great, but being told to Google possible solutions to an already trial-and-error process wasn't acceptable.
- The instructor-to-student ratio was a joke. This lead to a “first come/first serve” arrangement to get help after lecture. When asking for help, I was too often told to look for an answer via an external resource. This resulted in an inordinate number of hours spent on guess work.
- The absence of feedback from completed assignments was detrimental to the learning process. If you don’t understand your mistakes, how can you possibly know how to proceed with future assignments? If I had been shown how the code for the previous assignments could be more professionally and efficiently accomplished, it would have allowed me to use that knowledge moving forward. This caused unnecessary struggle of making the same mistakes.
- With the degree of dedication and effort put into every day, I shouldn't have felt stranded. I relied heavily on collaboration with other students to complete assignments. While collaboration is good, many people were struggling with the same problems as me. This resulted in a cluster of random ideas and possible solutions.
I wish I could get my time and money back and just start studying on my own. This was a terrible experience, and I hope that if you decide to take the plunge, that your’s is better than mine.
Thanks for reading.
I graduated from the Iron Yard in 2014, and was hired as an instructor in the fall of 2016. My experience as a student was mostly positive, though most in my cohort did not have positive outcomes. Two years later, I started working as an instructor, and I taught 2 cohorts. The company has undergone a lot of recent changes and thought it would be helpful to provide an insider's view.
I'll begin with the positive:
+ Campuses I worked with are staffed with...
I graduated from the Iron Yard in 2014, and was hired as an instructor in the fall of 2016. My experience as a student was mostly positive, though most in my cohort did not have positive outcomes. Two years later, I started working as an instructor, and I taught 2 cohorts. The company has undergone a lot of recent changes and thought it would be helpful to provide an insider's view.
I'll begin with the positive:
+ Campuses I worked with are staffed with sincere and hard working individuals. Instructors are motivated and want their students to learn and succeed ( though this is not always the case -- there have been some dreadful instructors ). Campus directors and ops staff are mostly eyeing the bottom line and KPI's but are generally well intentioned.
+ The company is shifting toward activity-driven classes (as opposed to lectures) which seems to be a net benefit for the students. Watching a live coding demo for three hours can be very dry and is unproductive for most -- especially those students having trouble with the material.
+ Good instructional staff to student ratio. About 8-9 students to 1 instructor.
On to the negative:
+ There are instructors teaching languages in which they have no professional experience and were asked to learn ( or 'upskill' in company-speak ) in a very brief period. There are mobile developers and .NET instructors teaching Java, and UI Designers teaching. Javascript instructors teaching Ruby
+ The company "career support" is a joke. Basically consists of a trello board for establishing a workflow in following up with companies, reminders to organize your portfolio (with little instruction how), and circulating publicly available job listings on Slack. The campus director also provides references, but isn't really in a position to evaluate the caliber of the student.
+ High instructor turnover. Many talented instructors have left the company due to bad faith and lack of transparency from upper management. This has been an ongoing trend for the company over the last 3 years.
+ Low job placement rate. I don't know what numbers they are publishing or how they are massaging them, but a substantial number of students who enroll in the program and graduate do not ever end up employed as devs.
+ Everybody gets a trophy and instructors are tacitly pressured to graduate 100% of students no matter their standing in the course. The company is even willing to allow students to stay in the program if they cheat so long as the student keeps paying tuition ( though these students won't be awarded a graduation certificate ).
+ The new "Web Development Career Path" is tragicomical. The academics team is a specatular mess and the newline platform is buggy and sloppy. Two weeks before launch, they were pleaing instructors for assignments in order to fill out content and as of week 3, they still didn't have the curriculums ready for the Backend Fundamentals or the Specializations
+ The content writers for the curriculum appear to have little experience, and frankly, don't seem to be very good devs -- based on their output and the activities they've created, I wouldn't contract them for a project. The slipshod activities are incomplete, cumbersome to distribute, and many recommended solutions are not best practices.
+ There is minimal training for instructors or examples in running a flipped classroom for coding, so instructors don't know how to teach the material. Lessons, activities, projects, and assessments are distributed through the newline platform and students are encouraged to fend for themselves in the name of learner autonomy and responsibility.
+ For the Language Specialization in Java and Ruby, students have 4 weeks to learn an entirely new programming language (first 8 weeks are in Javascript). The academic team incredibly believes will make them "fully-qualified, junior-level, professional developers".
+ The cohorts are now overlapping, so you as a student will have instructors planning and organizing 2 cohorts at the same time for students of many different levels and with various specializations. These overlapping cohorts will allow each campus to target enrollment of ~100 students for the year ( as opposed to ~60 ), and will flood the local market with McDevs who have mostly identical portfolio pieces.
Everything about the "Web Development Career Path" has been very poorly conceived and worse implemented. There are many ways to learn to code and if your instructor is good, your time might be productively spent here but it's a costly gamble for the aforementioned reasons.
They will teach you to code, and you'll meet some great people. BUT, I don't think the program content is worth the $12,000 price. Here's why:
1. Many lessons involved learning from Google docs, or simply copied online FREE lessons (Code School or Code Academy, Treehouse, etc.). Many times after lecture, students spent hours going through these anyway to get more help, or a more thorough explanation. The strongest students in the class get treated like ...
They will teach you to code, and you'll meet some great people. BUT, I don't think the program content is worth the $12,000 price. Here's why:
1. Many lessons involved learning from Google docs, or simply copied online FREE lessons (Code School or Code Academy, Treehouse, etc.). Many times after lecture, students spent hours going through these anyway to get more help, or a more thorough explanation. The strongest students in the class get treated like free TAs even though they also paid the same amount to be there. There was little to no 1:1 time with instructor to provide personalized guidance or advice.
2. The amount that the staff's personal lives was allowed to interfere with curriculum was frustrating. People get sick, kids get sick, and bad weather happens. In all these cases we either didn't have class, or were redirected to a FREE online resource or not given additional material at all. There was no backup plan to cover these days to keep us moving forward. In a 12 week program I think we had about 6 missed class days for various reasons ($1200 value in lost class/instructor time per student).
3. Lack of resources. For $12k I expected more. More personalized guidance and advice, more post-grad resources and certainly more job assistance. As an alumnus, I continue getting emails to help out current students, be a mentor, etc. These are great ideas, but how can you charge so much for a program then expect alumni to provide the services and resources for free? The whole program felt a bit like "winging it". Students had to take out garbage and do dishes...in a program that cost them $200/day.
4. The job guarantee doesn't apply anymore. Their "job assistance" is not all that useful. Some students get mock interviews, but it wasn't tracked or scheduled in advance so some folks got to practice multiple times and others not at all. The post-graduation guidance is "apply for 10 jobs a week". Fine, but in a small city there aren't always 10 entry-level jobs posted in any given week. I expected them to be a little more proactive in notifying students of opportunities. Also, students who had all but stopped attending class were allowed to "graduate" and participate in demo day along side students who had been consistent all along.
Just like everyone else looking for a new career, I was sucked in by their promise of turning anyone into a highly sought after, well paid developer. I read some bad reviews but decided to try it anyways because of the few good reviews stating that the person's success was dependent solely on the amount they were willing to dedicate to learning. The Iron Yard says that anyone can attend even if they have zero experience with coding. So because of this I was expecting to be taught every...
Just like everyone else looking for a new career, I was sucked in by their promise of turning anyone into a highly sought after, well paid developer. I read some bad reviews but decided to try it anyways because of the few good reviews stating that the person's success was dependent solely on the amount they were willing to dedicate to learning. The Iron Yard says that anyone can attend even if they have zero experience with coding. So because of this I was expecting to be taught everything from A to Z but that was no where near the truth. Before the course begins you must complete some prework which consists of learning everything you can about html/css/javascript/jquery on your own, so pretty much more than half of what you are paying $12,000 for THEM to teach you. Then once the course begins, their teachings consists of mostly skimming through what you should have learned on your own on codeacademy, lectures, and only a few examples here and there. The schedule was a complete joke, only 4-5 hours a day were dedicated to actual teaching and the rest was what they call "lab time" which is their fancy way of saying you can stay in the classroom and work on your assignments. For the $12,000 you pay them, the only things of value you are getting are: a blue-print of what you must learn to be a front end developer, access to a room with wifi, people to answer any questions you may have, and somewhat of a community of other developers. Their "job assistance" is pretty much spamming every employer until one of them bites. None of this is worth even half of what they charge to attend, the only reason they get away with it is because there are not many other options.
If you are thinking about attending the houston location I will save you $12,000 of your hard earned money. All you have to do is go to the codeacademy website and complete the FREE courses. Then google node.js, backbone.js, react.js, heroku, and REST. No joke this makes up their entire course. The only things you need now are wifi and someone to answer any questions you may have (this is where google comes in). Even better, all of this can be learned for free by watching YouTube videos, you just need to know what to search for (like i said, simply google what a front end developer must know).
The only positive thing I can say about the Houston location is that the people are really nice, but that's it.
I'd advise anyone thinking about enrolling in this bootcamp course to first look up free resources on the web. I spent over 2 and a half thousand on a Ruby on Rails course with TIY and at the end my only positive from the experience was this realisation: "Now you've blown this money, do whatever is necessary to learn this stuff on your own or elsewhere". So please, don't make the mistake I made (unless you have tons of dosh to blow.
No ...
I'd advise anyone thinking about enrolling in this bootcamp course to first look up free resources on the web. I spent over 2 and a half thousand on a Ruby on Rails course with TIY and at the end my only positive from the experience was this realisation: "Now you've blown this money, do whatever is necessary to learn this stuff on your own or elsewhere". So please, don't make the mistake I made (unless you have tons of dosh to blow.
No offence to the tutors, they know their stuff. But TIY from my experience is a money making scam; those who've had a different experience have been luckier than I have.
I've since found these resources below to be much much more valuable than the time and money I spent with TIY
http://7in7.crashlearner.com/ - free
https://www.udemy.com/draft/415482/learn - free
https://www.udemy.com/pro-rubyonrails/learn - $8
http://www.littlewebhut.com/ - free
http://www.justinweiss.com/ - free
http://www.youtube.com - free
There's so many more free and cheap resources out there, but you get the drift. Spend £2500.00 on some marketing hype or invest some time and less than £10.00 online? You do the math!
If you can afford to take 12wks off from work, which you'd have to do to attend, then do that and use online resources to teach yourself. Don't be pulled into this scheme. This place will promise you the moon and doesn't even deliver a rock. They will blatantly lie about job opportunities when you start and by the end of the course they are scrambling to get anyone to take a second look at students. Employers aren't fooled or interested in hiring people from here ...
If you can afford to take 12wks off from work, which you'd have to do to attend, then do that and use online resources to teach yourself. Don't be pulled into this scheme. This place will promise you the moon and doesn't even deliver a rock. They will blatantly lie about job opportunities when you start and by the end of the course they are scrambling to get anyone to take a second look at students. Employers aren't fooled or interested in hiring people from here unless you want to work for free or little pay as an intern. They will pass anyone that pays their ridiculous fees. Parking isn't included so you spend a ton of money on that. If some people in the class are behind you'll end up staying in the same curriculum. They make up the curriculum and it's usually unorganized. They don't even check your work after you do it. They depend on students to teach each other more than teachers. If you're one of the people that understands how to do something you'll be expected to teach and pull up the stragglers on your free time.
The people I attended with barely can find work - the heads of the class mostly did internships, and the other ones that did find some work started off at closer to 25,000 a year, not the promised 75,000 to 100,000. The only people that really benefit from this already have a good base in coding and they don't benefit $12,000+ from it. It's a lie that they can take you from not understanding coding to being a developer but either way you'll get a passing certificate. You'll regret going here if you're unlucky enough to join.
Let me start by saying I have a job as a developer now - but only because after my bad experience I took it upon myself to try another bootcamp and online course with CodeSchool. The way this course is sold to the applicants is that ANYBODY can do it if they put in the time, dedication, hard work, and willingness to learn. That is true for any field really but I definitely fell for that speech and joined the course. We were also told that you can go from "0 to hero" basically you don't hav...
Let me start by saying I have a job as a developer now - but only because after my bad experience I took it upon myself to try another bootcamp and online course with CodeSchool. The way this course is sold to the applicants is that ANYBODY can do it if they put in the time, dedication, hard work, and willingness to learn. That is true for any field really but I definitely fell for that speech and joined the course. We were also told that you can go from "0 to hero" basically you don't have to have any programming knowledge and they can take you to a junior developer in 3 months. Basically you can make it through this camp if you ALREADY know how to code. They ask you to study tutorials before you get there to know the basics but I found I was basically teaching myself. I don't mind that of course because I ended up doing it after the camp ended but for all the money you have to pay, that's ridiculous to pay to teach yourself! Add the fact that you MUST have a Mac, which is not a requirement at most jobs. (I asked in different interviews.) Please just take your time with enrolling at TIY. Ask many questions, don't get caught in the hype. If you want connections and job opportunities just join the tech meetups in Indy. Saying you went to TIY won't get you far, they already have a bad reputation starting because our community is so small. I asked at a few meetups what complete strangers thought of them (I never said I went there) and the response was not surprising. Word traveled quickly that the course material was all over the place, the administration was stuffy, and for the price you can take a superb course online or at Eleven Fifty if you really want class instruction. I'll leave on a good note though... the idea behind it is great. Small classes, individual attention, classmates are usually really cool (because we love tech), beer, and insider info on the tech scene in Indy was great. But then again you can get that for free at a meetup!
PART 2:
Sorry I forgot to add that: 1. I found all the homework assignments on YouTube. Why should I pay for material that was taken from Treehouse, Google, and/or YouTube?? 2. People have different learning styles so I don't understand all the positive reviews when they say it's a bootcamp it's supposed to be fast. Being too fast wasn't the big issue really, it was the unorganized, stolen material. The unanswered questions. The guess everything approach. Google it... yes we're going to be problem solvers but I wanted to LEARN it first. Then I can solve the problems! 3. Seriously the tuition baffles me. I agree with the several reviews on the price. They'll try to tell you it's because you MAY graduate and find an entry level position for $40,000 per year or more.... they are not Hack Reactor so they shouldn't be making such foolish claims to suck people in.
The one good thing about my experience was my instructor. He really knew his stuff and tried to help us as much as he could. In the same breath, even he had issues with The Iron Yard "Leadership"/Management. My 2 main issues with the program is that I received 0 job finding assistance and I cannot fathom a logical explanation for the cost of the class.
I busted my ass everyday in class, learned the material and did my entire job search on my own. I sat ...
The one good thing about my experience was my instructor. He really knew his stuff and tried to help us as much as he could. In the same breath, even he had issues with The Iron Yard "Leadership"/Management. My 2 main issues with the program is that I received 0 job finding assistance and I cannot fathom a logical explanation for the cost of the class.
I busted my ass everyday in class, learned the material and did my entire job search on my own. I sat down and applied to about 60 places and got a job by myself. Do not believe their main selling point of "We even help you get a job." That's bullshit.
On top of that the class costs $10,000. For 10K times a class of lets say 15, we sat at cheap IKEA tables, brought our own computers, and used a bunch of free software. And if you're lucky the campus directors will hand you one tshirt before the course is over. Nothing about my experience could have explained my class bringing The Iron Yard $150,000. Spending that amount of money for 12 weeks of school was more expensive than 12 weeks of Out of State college tuition. It just doesn't make sense.
I suggest learning what you can for free, then picking a program that gives you what you need for the best value. Avoid the scams.
The way that TIY teaches isn't concducive to learning code for me and I suspect for most people. I learned very little from the instructor. Most of what I learned was on my own or from another student. If you're going to be learning on your own anyway, it makes little sense to pay someone exhorbitant amounts of money to "teach" you.
The style of instruction is that they go over material that's new in a very slap-dash fashion and then you're assigned home...
The way that TIY teaches isn't concducive to learning code for me and I suspect for most people. I learned very little from the instructor. Most of what I learned was on my own or from another student. If you're going to be learning on your own anyway, it makes little sense to pay someone exhorbitant amounts of money to "teach" you.
The style of instruction is that they go over material that's new in a very slap-dash fashion and then you're assigned homework. If you have little or no coding experience the homework will be problems that you're not familiar with and rather difficult. You're expected to figure out how to do these projects on your own. So the basic teaching methodology is to overwelm you with a problem that you don't understand but you "learn" through trial on error mostly on your own or with other students. It's hopped that understanding the problems and solving them comes with doing things through trial and error (and hair pulling?). But often you don't really know how to begin to solve a problem because you lack the experience and instructions to even understand what the problem is.
If you look at the literature in cognitive science about learning, you'll see that this method is the oppsoite of good pedagogy. There really are best and worst ways to learn. The best ways to learn is through breaking things down into smaller steps and to emphasize understanding at each level. It's not to overwelm with problems that's way beyond your ability and to "learn as you go". That's a recipe for burnout.
Now TIY might respond that since they have so little time (just over two months of instruction) they must cover things in ways that emphasize understanding at every step. However, most of the things you need to learn to be a fluent or expert coder will be learned outside of TIY anyway on the job.
It takes years to be a good coder. There's no short cut for that. So if most of the things you will learn is going to be outside of class, class might as well set you up with solid foundations steeped in understanding of core concepts. But TIY doesn't do that.
It's not only me who had this view, I've heard it from other students in my class as well. I dropped out after 5 weeks and others have told me that they thought of the option too. It just wasn't right for them and they weren't progessing in the ways they expected.
Again, this didn't surrprise me because as I mentioned, the learning envrionment isn't conducive to the type of learning that coders need. The style of teaching might be good for learning natural languages such as Spanish or Japanese but learning to code is far closer to learning math than natural languages (no surprise since the people who developed computer technologies were mathematicians and computer scientists) See the current research into learning math which suggests that the best methodology is essentially exactly the opposite of TIY's methodology.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/a-better-way-to-teach-math/?_r=0
I think a lot of students would have taken the path I did but they wished to get a recommendation for a job after completing the course. That's their main reason for staying the course, imho. But honestly I doubt that the recomendation will help in securing a good junior developer job. What will help is very good project portfolio and your abillity to demonstrate your understanding of coding in interviews. But these things take time and a solid grasp of the basics which TIY does not provide. It's much cheaper, less frustrating and effective to learn on your own.There are now very good online and free resoruces to help you if you're serious.
I also wish TIY made it mandatory and very explicitly clear in assigning prework. The prework they do assign won't help much. But books like Head Start Javascrip are good resources that would have helped a lot. They claim that there's only about 40 hours of prework that they assign but it's actually about 80 hours and that isn't sufficient to prepare you. Also since I had already done some of the prework they never made it clear to me that I needed to do the rest, just that it was optional. You really need about four months of doing significant amount of work on your own to prepare for the kind of work your going to be expected to learn.
I would NOT recommend TIY - particularly the Durham campus. Save your money and your sanity and look elsewhere if you are truly looking to learn to code.
Just a few of the major problems:
1. TIY hires teachers with ZERO TEACHING EXPERIENCE even though they promise you are paying for in-person classes with someone who knows how to teach. Teaching is a complex skill in its own right and to assume that someone with industry experience won't crash and burn when struggli...
I would NOT recommend TIY - particularly the Durham campus. Save your money and your sanity and look elsewhere if you are truly looking to learn to code.
Just a few of the major problems:
1. TIY hires teachers with ZERO TEACHING EXPERIENCE even though they promise you are paying for in-person classes with someone who knows how to teach. Teaching is a complex skill in its own right and to assume that someone with industry experience won't crash and burn when struggling to explain abstract concepts is ludicrous. This "teacher" will take all of their students along for the ride and if they lack empathy and self awareness (not in abundance for software developers in general) they will not be too concerned about the implications for students who are forking over tons of cash for the experience.
2. TIY's main concern is about raking in the money (seriously how can the quality be anywhere near decent when they've opened 10 schools in one year?). Need more evidence of the corporate greed factor? Their top dog worked as a broker on Wall Street with Jordan Belfort (aka the Wolf of Wall Street) and brags that "Through that relationship, guys convinced me I could make a whole lot more money on Wall Street than if I finished school." Google Peter Barth and Jordan Belfort. This is who you'll be giving your money to. Beware.
3. They do not have your best interests in mind nor do they care about you - this is all a marketing ploy (see above).
4. Your opinions and particular needs as a student will be ignored and you will be demonized if you don't follow the campus agenda set by the particularities of the campus admin -- not your instructor. The admins wield all the power even though they are not developers and they absue that power quite freely.
5. The Durham space is WAY TOO SMALL for 45+ students - you will want to leave as soon as lecture is over if you require any peace of mind to focus. Can't they at least afford to upgrade the campus location with all the $$$ they rake in from students? Oh they don't care about student well-being?! Right. Enough said.
6. The Durham CAMPUS INTERNET IS OUT OR EXTREMELY SLOW AT LEAST 50% OF THE TIME. Guess I gotta repeat myself : Can't they at least afford to upgrade the campus infrastructure with all the $$$ they rake in from students? Oh they don't care about student well-being?! Right. Enough said.
7. It's a CATCH-22 for students - those who may be critical of the program are not able to speak out, for fear that it will impact their future abilities to land a job through TIY connections.
Even with all the above, I learned how to code -- but due to my own efforts and working with fellow students. I hope that in the future pseudo-schools like this will be held accountable for their actions and not allowed to behave in such unethical ways. Supporting students and their success is the point of a school and sadly TIY doesn't recognize that at all. Instead prepare for "group think" and persistent bullying if you give them your money.
It went fast, as in time flew by. Alot of my classmates are also jobless after 4 months of graduation and the school director just quit to exacerbate the issue. They do have decent wifi and the salvation army is across the street so you can have an idea of where you might be afterwards: jobless. And a huge debt to pay afterwards. Sounds kinda like what an orange guy with a red tie has been saying for the last 10 months. This is mostly negative but it is the truth for mo...
It went fast, as in time flew by. Alot of my classmates are also jobless after 4 months of graduation and the school director just quit to exacerbate the issue. They do have decent wifi and the salvation army is across the street so you can have an idea of where you might be afterwards: jobless. And a huge debt to pay afterwards. Sounds kinda like what an orange guy with a red tie has been saying for the last 10 months. This is mostly negative but it is the truth for most of us. My review would be better if at least I was close to getting a job but so far its been silence from everywhere, even the supposed job support sucks. They just send blasted links from places I search anyway. Its sort of embarrassing. Though, its cool that now I can make a site if I want but as long as a check to my name is not coming. then screw this. And for that reason, I'm out. Ps I just saw all the glowing reviews so I assume my comment will be stuffed to the last pages so if you read this I'm shocked.
I chose TIY because the advertising and the people I talked to said that I could go from having no coding experience to getting a job as a developer in 12 weeks. I did the prework that was assigned, but struggled a lot in the class. Although the instructor was very, very good, he had to go so quickly in order to cover everything that I felt behind by the second week. I complained about this several times, and now they offer more prework and a small weekend pre-course to help people start o...
I chose TIY because the advertising and the people I talked to said that I could go from having no coding experience to getting a job as a developer in 12 weeks. I did the prework that was assigned, but struggled a lot in the class. Although the instructor was very, very good, he had to go so quickly in order to cover everything that I felt behind by the second week. I complained about this several times, and now they offer more prework and a small weekend pre-course to help people start off better, but this didn't benefit me. I looked for a job for three months despite feeling like I was not competent to work as a dev and was finally thrilled when I was accepted into an apprenticeship program that was an additional 12 weeks of learning on the job. Additionally, TIY provided basically no help in the job hunt; I received no personalized leads, no help on my resume, cover letters or thank you letters, and once the new cohort started I did not hear from the admin people at all.
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While bootcamps must be approved to operate, accreditation is relatively rare. The Iron Yard doesn't yet share information about their accreditation status.
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