The lack of jobs isn’t at the fault of Fullstack Academy, because there’s a clear saturation in the job market. It seems that the full-time students who graduated around the same time haven’t had much more luck. Out of the 10 or so people from my cohort who have gone onto job search, 4 have secured jobs after almost 4 months since graduation. I can only speak on what I see from Fullstack Academy. By the way, most of this criticism can probably be said about other bootcamps. However, I think there’s an issue when so many grads are unable to find jobs. Ultimately, nobody can interview for you. First, I just want to state that there really is only so much an outside party can help one in this journey. I don’t think Fullstack Academy helps their grads much in landing jobs. You’ll have to deal with version control and different personalities. Working on a group project is the closest simulation that you can get to working professionally. I know that other bootcamp programs have their final projects done individually. In the second half of the program, students are given one major project and the final project both done as groups.
What I believe is the best thing that Fullstack Academy teaches is how to work in a group.
The projects are posted on the official YouTube channel and website, so feel free to check those out.
When I look at the projects that come out of Fullstack Academy, I’m always super impressed. I don’t know how, since it seems like curricula between all these bootcamp programs are pretty much the same. When I meet grads from other schools, I feel like grads from Fullstack Academy somehow learned more. 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.
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.