I think it deserves the acclaim that it gets for that regard. Just be mindful of it when reading reviews.įrom a purely educational standpoint, Fullstack Academy is great.
Everyone wants to look good, so I completely understand why they do this. For Fullstack Academy, I was only contacted to leave a review of the school on these sites after giving notification of accepting a job offer. With looking at reviews for anything, you have to consider who is doing the reviewing. That means the reviews does skew positively. From what I can tell, almost all the reviews are from grads who have already secured a job after finishing the program or fresh grads who haven’t really been through the job search yet.
By the way, I want to point out something about these reviews. I don’t want to go in depth on the actual experience of attending Fullstack Academy, since there are so many reviews on Course Report and SwitchUp with lots to read on that. I recently discussed here on whether coding bootcamps are worth doing, but I didn’t really talk specifically about Fullstack Academy. That post came at the end of 2017 right before I started the program. I’ve written here about my decision to enter Fullstack Academy and talked through my thought process of choosing this bootcamp over others. There is a Chicago campus, and the bootcamp can be done remotely as well.
I want to make clear first that I attended the part-time program, and I was at the original campus in New York City.
#FLATIRON SWITCHUP SOFTWARE#
It’s now been close to 4 months since I finished the immersive software engineering program at Fullstack Academy, and I have some concerning thoughts. Mainly though, I wanted to see how the job search panned out for everyone. I wanted to write this post after a good amount of time and reflection.