CareerFoundry
Average Rating4.66
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CareerFoundry is an online bootcamp that offers flexibly paced programs for career changers in web development, UX design, UI design, product design, data analytics, digital marketing, and product management. Headquartered in Berlin but with a global student base, CareerFoundry has provided tech education since 2013.
CareerFoundry combines the flexibility of online learning with the guidance of mentors and tutors through their dual mentorship model, training students to become job-ready in four to 12 months, or their money back.
No previous experience is required to apply for the programs. Students should have access to a computer and an internet connection, and an interest in the topic they are planning to study. Students apply via the CareerFoundry website by connecting with an advisor who can talk through their options. Students will need to pay a deposit to secure their place, then complete the required pre-work before the program commences.
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Robert M.Student • UX Design Program • OnlineOct 18, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceReally enjoying my UX course
This course has been great in helping me find a new direction for my career. Each fundamental and exercise is clearly explained, so you can incrementally get comfortable with the field. The flexibility offered by the course is great too. You can work on the exercises whenever it suits your schedule. They also help keep you on track with an interactive timeline that moves along as you submit tasks towards our goal. You are assigned both a tutor and a mentor, and both of mine have been ext...This course has been great in helping me find a new direction for my career. Each fundamental and exercise is clearly explained, so you can incrementally get comfortable with the field. The flexibility offered by the course is great too. You can work on the exercises whenever it suits your schedule. They also help keep you on track with an interactive timeline that moves along as you submit tasks towards our goal. You are assigned both a tutor and a mentor, and both of mine have been extremely helpful and responsive. Their criticisms are constructive and they give due credit for good work done. If you are thinking about a career change, I can definitely recommend this platform. It's a great opportunity!- PaulaStudent • UX Designer • BerlinOct 18, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Great choice !
CareerFoundry is a great choice both for beginners and advanced learners. - Frankie FlynnStudent • OnlineOct 18, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
UX Immersion
CareerFoundry have really shined when connecting me with my mentor. His experience has helped me grow a lot and made me feel a lot more confident entering then world of UX design.
The course is in depth and you’ll learn a tremendous amount of UX, the course itself is broken down into many tasks, my goal everyday is “complete one task” and I’m getting through it rather quickly now.
Plus you can’t beat a job guarantee.
Some tutorial videos need updated a little for mo...CareerFoundry have really shined when connecting me with my mentor. His experience has helped me grow a lot and made me feel a lot more confident entering then world of UX design.
The course is in depth and you’ll learn a tremendous amount of UX, the course itself is broken down into many tasks, my goal everyday is “complete one task” and I’m getting through it rather quickly now.
Plus you can’t beat a job guarantee.
Some tutorial videos need updated a little for modern software, but this isn’t a huge issue. Overall I’m happy with how it’s going and feel excited to start my new career. - WillStudent • UX Design Program • OnlineOct 18, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
UX Design Program
Learning all of the skills, tools, and processes required to become a UX designer - JLOct 18, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
UI Design
Really enjoying the course fantastic teachers and Mentors. The course is very professional. - InesStudent • Full-Stack Web Development Program • OnlineOct 15, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Good curriculum, but total lack of support
I signed up for the Full Stack Web Development program as I already graduated from CF UI Design program with great experiences (though no job in the end).
I have to say, although their design program is worth it, the development one is just the opposite. First of all, there is a great distinction in CF team behavior to you depending on if you pay on your own versus if your course is paid by unemployment agency. When I was paying on my own, the team was cordial and I managed to cha...I signed up for the Full Stack Web Development program as I already graduated from CF UI Design program with great experiences (though no job in the end).
I have to say, although their design program is worth it, the development one is just the opposite. First of all, there is a great distinction in CF team behavior to you depending on if you pay on your own versus if your course is paid by unemployment agency. When I was paying on my own, the team was cordial and I managed to change my mentor with no big explanations. However, now that I am studying through unemployment agency, even though I do not have positive experience with my tutor, all my feedbacks are in vain.
Some things that bother me the most:
- Complete lack of support. I often lose 2-3 days on one task jsut because my tutor is not availabe during normal working hours. I have to stay logged in until midnight in order to try to communicate to him. He is responding to my chat messages only briefly and often this is not enough to solve the problem. Actually, he has been of zero actual support to me, only giving out links that I can (and do) find myself. Imagine solving one task whole day and then trying to resolve some issues until midnight (because your tutor has better things to do than to tutor you) and even that is not helping because he replies maybe once in an hour!! This means I am sitting endlessly in front of my computer trying to wait for a single reply, which then usually consist of brief sentence with a link to stackoverflow, youtube or whatever!!
- Consequence of this total lack of support is that I have to pay for extra tutoring from external people. Yes, that is correct. Because as AfA student, I have no time to waste and I cannot wait 2 days for my tutor to communicate with me, for the tasks I get stuck on I have to pay another person who can tutor me and explain me what is the issue. Yes, you do get mentor calls, but they are LIMITED. You only get 12 calls for the entire course of 50 tasks -and trust me development is hard!! When I asked Student advisors if it is possible to get extra calls, they flatly refused. They do not care about student's opinion at all, when you are not the one who is direclty paying them.
- Curriculum is OK and you do learn a lot, but it is expected that you will learn JS from zero to hero in 3 weeks or so, then React in 2 weeks, etc. This is impossible in such a short time, therefore I am paying additional courses on Udemy so I can keep track with the curriculum demands. I found better support on Udemy actually, because when I post some issues there I get sensible and helpful reply from course leader, which is usually not the case with my tutor.
- My tutor (again him, yes) is often rejecting my tasks even though I did the same as other students did (as a student you can see 3 approved examples made by other students as a guideline). We all get same tasks and same curriculum. I do not understand why I need to do more than others (for some tasks)!? When I asked my tutor how come I need to do X and Y which other students did not do, his response was that maybe their tutors overlooked this (!?). I have 3 references of same solution, so how can it be possible that 3 tutors made the same overlooking mistake for 3 different people??
- My mentor was initially non-responsive to my messages (would only accept call requests), but he did change his behavior when I pointed this out to him and is now much more helpful. However, I still have only 9 calls left with him and more than half of the course to go, so I know I will not have enough calls with him until the end of the course. Then I guess I will just have to pay to someone else if I get majorly stuck (my progress is watched by the unemployment agency so there is no leeway), which is of course not mentor's fault, it is the limitation of the course itself. In comparison, when I was paying on my own, I think I even unlimited calls with. my mentor (or at least much more than here - but this info I should double-check as I graduated already some time ago from the first course).
All in all, while I know that I will make it through this course because I did learn some basic development before on Udemy and some initial knowledge helped me to progress faster in the beginning, I would not recommend this course for Bildungsgutschein students, nor for beginners. Getting feedback as a beginner developer is extremely important because many things can go wrong that are beyong your control (especially when you are facing the topic 1st time in your life) and I am extremely disappointed by how they treat me as a student. And yes, I did send my feedbacks to their Feedback team many times and I also leave review and feedbacks after each lesson (maybe that will help other students if not me).
- John CowleyStudent • UX Designer • OnlineOct 04, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Good experience, liked it
After my 30s, I decided to find a new career path. For most of my life, I liked to paint and design, that is why I thought that it would be a great idea to become a UX designer. I had no appropriate skills and decided to join the CareerFoundry UX design course. The course program was very profound, lectures are understandable and my mentor was always ready to help. But in the middle of the course, I realized that it is not the career of my dreams. I realized that I prefer working with p...After my 30s, I decided to find a new career path. For most of my life, I liked to paint and design, that is why I thought that it would be a great idea to become a UX designer. I had no appropriate skills and decided to join the CareerFoundry UX design course. The course program was very profound, lectures are understandable and my mentor was always ready to help. But in the middle of the course, I realized that it is not the career of my dreams. I realized that I prefer working with people much more than just working with the computer. So I've dropped out, but I the course itself was marvelous. I recommend these guys, if you want to start a new career in UX. - AshleyParalegal • Applicant • UX Designer • OnlineSep 16, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Great UX bootcamp for beginners
After doing extensive research on finding a program best suited for me, I came across CareerFoundry. The program offers both a tutor and mentor specifically for you, and I love both my tutor and mentor assigned to me. I like that the course lets you go at your own pace but shows you the deadline it should be completed by for each section. The curriculum is in-depth and easy to understand, considering I knew very little about UX Design. I'd absolutely recommend CareerFoundry to beginning ...After doing extensive research on finding a program best suited for me, I came across CareerFoundry. The program offers both a tutor and mentor specifically for you, and I love both my tutor and mentor assigned to me. I like that the course lets you go at your own pace but shows you the deadline it should be completed by for each section. The curriculum is in-depth and easy to understand, considering I knew very little about UX Design. I'd absolutely recommend CareerFoundry to beginning and mid-level aspiring UX designers! - MattyStudent • Student • Intro to UX Design Course • OnlineSep 16, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
UX Design Bootcamp
A fantastic dive into the techniques and best practices of the UX designer. - Pauline MargossianStudent • Full-Stack Web Development Program • OnlineSep 16, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Thank you CareerFoundry!
As a student with no background in web development & coding in general, I feel CareerFoundry is the best choice I have ever made. The curriculum is very well organised, I was skeptical at first when I knew it was online but when I started the course I felt involved in the course more than ever, there's so much to learn and to practice that you don't feel the time pass by and you just want to finish one task and start another.
My tutor and mentor are people who you look up to the...As a student with no background in web development & coding in general, I feel CareerFoundry is the best choice I have ever made. The curriculum is very well organised, I was skeptical at first when I knew it was online but when I started the course I felt involved in the course more than ever, there's so much to learn and to practice that you don't feel the time pass by and you just want to finish one task and start another.
My tutor and mentor are people who you look up to they are always there to help, give advices and guide me through my coding journey.
The Student advisors are very welcoming and they always keep contact through encouraging emails.
I encourage anyone who is interested in coding to take Full-Stack Web development course at CareerFoundry you won't regret it! - ViraStudent • UI Design Program • OnlineSep 16, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Compelling and competing UI course
I'm very happy I've chosen CareerFoundry for the start of my UI career.
It's not only easily accessible and can be done from any corner of the world, but its program is covering if not all, but the most important topics of UI/UX design.
I love the way the course is organised and planned. The platform can be tricky sometimes, but it's very well-planned and easy to use, compared to many other online education platforms I've tried before.
Daily you have a team of course ad...I'm very happy I've chosen CareerFoundry for the start of my UI career.
It's not only easily accessible and can be done from any corner of the world, but its program is covering if not all, but the most important topics of UI/UX design.
I love the way the course is organised and planned. The platform can be tricky sometimes, but it's very well-planned and easy to use, compared to many other online education platforms I've tried before.
Daily you have a team of course advisors, mentor and a tutor behind you, ready to help you to solve all your queries.
But the most important, I think is the course program and its coverage. You end up getting most important info that will help you in your career. Here everything depends on you, but many of my friends or course buddies ended up landing a job, not even finishing the course first! It tells something about it, right?
Check it out for yourself and good luck! - Kane RoskellStudent • UI Design Program • OnlineSep 16, 2021Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
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As a career changer, I have found CareerFoundry to be absolutely amazing. The instructors are so knowledgeable and helpful, and you really feel encouraged to work hard. The course is self paced so even if you’re busy you can still find time to study. Each task is super interesting and prepares you for real life scenarios/projects when you start working in your field.
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Based on 1,400+ CareerFoundry reviews on Course Report, alumni appreciate the practical, skill-building approach of the bootcamps, particularly highlighting the mentorship, structured and engaging curriculum, and the flexibility to learn at their own pace. One student remarked, "The support and feedback from the Tutor and Mentor are what keeps me motivated, energized and confident about the skill I’m learning." However, some noted that learning online can feel lonely, especially for tasks typically done in teams.
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FAQs
How much does CareerFoundry cost?
CareerFoundry costs around $7,900. On the lower end, some CareerFoundry courses like Data Analytics Program cost $6,900.
What courses does CareerFoundry teach?
CareerFoundry offers courses like Data Analytics Program, Digital Marketing Program, Full-Stack Web Development Program, Product Design Program and 3 more.
Where does CareerFoundry have campuses?
CareerFoundry teaches students Online in a remote classroom.
Is CareerFoundry worth it?
CareerFoundry hasn't shared alumni outcomes yet, but one way to determine if a bootcamp is worth it is by reading alumni reviews. 1,502 CareerFoundry alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed CareerFoundry on Course Report - you should start there!
Is CareerFoundry legit?
We let alumni answer that question. 1,502 CareerFoundry alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed CareerFoundry and rate their overall experience a 4.66 out of 5.
Does CareerFoundry offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
Right now, it doesn't look like CareerFoundry offers scholarships or accepts the GI Bill. We're always adding to the list of schools that do offer Exclusive Course Report Scholarships and a list of the bootcamps that accept the GI Bill.
Can I read CareerFoundry reviews?
You can read 1,502 reviews of CareerFoundry on Course Report! CareerFoundry alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed CareerFoundry and rate their overall experience a 4.66 out of 5.
Is CareerFoundry accredited?
While bootcamps must be approved to operate, accreditation is relatively rare. CareerFoundry doesn't yet share information about their accreditation status.