Centriq Training

Overall my experience with Centriq is positive. I took the Cloud and Security course, so I can not speak for the other courses that are offered. Ill describe my overall experience then have some bullet points below for pros and cons. I started my course earlier this year after dropping out of college, thinking that this will be a better option than 3 more years of college. Throughout the course, you are given an insane amount of information, and it comes at you fast. Taking notes, asking questions, and doing as much work as you can is the most important thing that you can do. Being in person in class every single day is a must, missing a day can put you so far back. The instructors are all amazing, want to be there and to help you, honestly best part of the course. Some of the content has been meh, but overall for what it is and what is says to be, it is spot on in my opinion. If you are going into this thinking that after 4 months you are going to be able to land a $80K+ year job, you are going to fail. The first job you get after Centriq will more than likely be Help Desk, which they do prepare you for when you are learning. I think this is a smart move, as this will get you a lot of experience in the real world, that school simply can not give you. The two certifications that they offered was the MS900 and CompTIA Sec+. I am still studying for these on my off time, but you can 100% get the MS900 done while you are in school. The Sec+ you will not, as the classes for that are the last weeks of the course. While there is not job placement, they do have great career services, sending out your resume, and sending you job listings as well. I was able to find a job a couple weeks after school ended, and I am sure if personal life stuff did not happen, I could have lined a job up for the week after classes were done. I worked a part time job during classes as well, and there are break weeks that if you need to study/pick up extra shifts, there is that option. We did go on a tour of a company, and during the tour the guide went off on a rant about how you should only use your break weeks to study and nothing else. It felt super tone death to me, as I had to pick up extra shifts the entire week just to afford to do the drive back and forth to the city to do this course. I choose not to work there. I will have another comment about them in the cons. 

Now for the pros. 

• Amazing staff, wanting to help and teach you anything you want to know. 
• Lots of information, in the form of notes, assignments, instructors, different certs or training websites. 
• Professional Development, if you have not worked in a customer service environment, this is a plus for you. Just good knowledge on how to work with customers or in a professional development. 
• It is only 4 months long. Compared to a 4 year degree, I think this is the better option if you want to start working and building experience, as everyone starts at the same position. For my current job, the coworker I have been training with has a 4 year degree, and we are starting at the same position for the same pay. A degree does not mean anything, except for some picky jobs. 
• My class, this one is up in the air, as this will change for every course, but my class was fantastic. Everyone who goes here is looking for something, and that is a career in IT. We all were able to build each other up, and were there for when we needed each other. Personally better than the college experience, where it felt like no one wanted to be there. 
• Know nothing about a computer and want to learn? This is built for you. The first few weeks are very slowly building up very base knowledge, however if you really don't know computers, you HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION. 

And of course, the cons. 

• Burn out is real, you will get burn out. You have to prepare for that. 
• We went on a tour of a company, and during the question part of it, the tour guide was somewhat rude, and gave an insulting low starting pay, $16 an hour. Whatever you do, do not work for a company that pays that low after going to school. Do not. This tour really ruined my mental image of what I was doing, but when I started to apply for jobs, I realized this was a one off thing, but it was still negative. 
• Professional Development. Yeah this is also a con, as someone who has worked in a customer service environment, this was always a drag in the morning to do, because it was just common knowledge. From what I heard, they are reworking the Professional development, so this might be better now, lets hope. 
• The price. I payed 26 thousand dollars for this. Comparing this to the degree I would have gotten from college, this is significantly cheaper, and only took 4 months. For me, being able to have some knowledge and being able to get out into the work force is more important then taking the extra couple years to finish my degree, you may agree, and I get that.  
• Starting out jobs after you finish. IT Help Desk is not the best job in the world, and that is where 90% of people are going to start their IT careers at. You cant expect to get the high paying senior level job after only 4 months of school, you can go to college for 4 years and end up at the same spot. 
• This is an ENTRY level course, so the first few weeks will be a snore fest for people who know more than a base level knowledge of tech and how it works. I have personal experience with computers, building them, ect, so going over was RAM and a CPU was, was incredibly boring, but it does pick up. 

Hello,

They will except all MONEY, VA, GI, sing you name to a loan application! Centriq Training is just a test prep building, Resume builders of lies, and money hungry vultures! Veterans and NON-Veterans stay away and go to community college to start, earning an Associates Degree an then Bachelors! The cost of Centrig for one course can pay for 2 years a Community College and just 3,000 short of a year at Park University (Big difference between Park and a testing facility). Furthermore, multiple companies will NOT hire you without an actual College Degree, they DO NOT recognize Certificates as an Education!

I attended the fullstack web developer track at Centriq Training. My experience there honestly changed my life. From day one of the track, you are learning. It is a fast paced, full immersion experience. However, if you are willing to invest the time and effort, you will be successful. The instructors are amazing. They were all really invested in the success of their students. You are able to schedule individual mentoring sessions with instructors if there is a concept that you are struggling with. Also, pretty much all of them were around both before and after class to answer any questions students had. Throughout the track, they provide career preparation training which if you follow through with helps you stand out as a job candidate. They also have many local companies that hire (almost) exclusively from their track and reach out to them with new job opportunities which Centriq pushes out to current students. They also have continued career support after graduation. When companies reach out with jobs that require more experience, Centriq pushes those opportunities out to their alumni. Overall, I can't recommend this program enough. I had multiple job offers within weeks of graduating and continually increased my salary over the course a few years.