Codecool

TL;DR: you want to be a software engineer / developer but also want to improve your soft skills, meanwhile at the same time you want to have fun? -> you are looking for Codecool!

If you want to learn software engineering this is the best place you can choose! The course starts at a beginner level -as no developer background is necessary- and you make your progress to advanced levels of programming and not to mention that you make friends meanwhile.

The atmosphere is fantastic, the people you work with everyday are very friendly, helpful, open-minded and you can find a lot in common with them. I have to mention that this is a practice-oriented course, which means that there is an A and B week. On the A week, you are home - yeah, I mean really, you stay at home, but you are always welcome in the office - learning and progressing with the curriculum and put it in practice with a fun little practice task. On week B you are in the office with your team working on a larger project (usually a few weeks long) in sprints. You work in a team of 4 which is changed every 6 weeks or so to make you adopt to the changing situation and to experience what it's like to work with others. On every friday you present what you have acomplished during the week to the others and the mentors.

The mentors are always there if you need any help! They are very experienced and wise people, who always try their best. Mentors try not to tell you the answers directly but make you realize what the problem is, where it is coming from and what could be possible answers. They sit down with you, help you with the research and solving the problem.

About my background: I changed to Codecool from a university because I wanted a more practical knowledge, made this step and I did not regret it, not even once! I would recommend Codecool over any university in Hungary if you had enough with theoretical knowledge and want to put your skills into practice.

Oh about skills, have I mentioned that at Codecool they placed great emphasis on soft skills also? Growth mindset, transparent communication, feedback sharing, you name it, they got us covered.

I'm very well satisfied with Codecool.

RECOMMENDED ~1662.0 hrs on record, 10/10

Usually when I pay for something I want the level of quality that was stated  in the promotion. 
I can not say for all semesters, that are horrible, but I had to chance to apply and study one of the front-end sessions in Budapest.
It was horrible, due to the lack of the mentors presentation skills no useful knowledge were given to us and the hard topics were chaotic and they did not translate it to us properly. 
We multiple times pointed on this also that they are not presenting any resources for study, so we needed to browse the net, and decide which material is acceptable and suitable.

If I pay that amount of money, I want to spare time on googling, and want approved study material by mentors. I want easy to understand explanations. And lots of life based coding examples. Non of above where present till the time that some of Us wanted back the money, they replaced the "senior" mentor. Unfortunately 2 months passed and that is a huge disadvantage and no solid base knowledge built for the harder topics. 

Overall, You need BIG luck to get a good mentor so they teach you anything worthy on top what you can get on the internet for free. But not worth it for that amount of money. 

a horrible decision,a total not what you expect from a company that offers a 1000$ course, not worth it for this money, the instructor was lame, he didnt even begin with the basics, i had to learn myself from YT, and i had to ask always what, when etc.. cause i felt i fall behind every time, and i could not keep up, obviously, so i decided to take my money back and learn on my own, with that kind of money u find courses way cheaper on undemy, youtube or wherever u want! dont fall for this thing, its only money buissnes!

Main issue: a lot of promises and no results.

First of all, the price is really high. It's 10k Euro, payable after getting a job.

Now, for what do you pay 10k.
1. For a curricula that is ripped off the internet. Most of the guidelines are not written by them, but rather links from the internet
2. Some reviews, that quite frankly, do not worth anything. 
3. Access to mentors, but they are overwhelmed. Some of them are good programmers and one of them a really great programmer. Unfortunately, they can not do much since they get overwhelmed by the large number of students.
4. The general manager or whatever is called, keeps interfering with the students / mentors and the whole path of the school, by sometimes publicly addressing weird phrases towards students.
5. They lack the jobs they promised. There are students that finished the school few months ago, that are offered shitty jobs that are not even close to what was promised.
6. Once they receive bad feedback, they start to aproach students that are in school, and ask them to write positive feedback.
7. Some students are having a bad behaviour related to other students. Aparently Codecool says soft-skills mean a lot, but they can not solve some issue regarding some of the students.
8. Most of the times the staff over-reacts at simple things that are normal in the life of a person. Such as, maybe at some point you are a bit late. We all know it is important to be right on schedule, but let us not over-react to all the corporate ideas out there. 

Sometimes they give the impression of lacking anything professional. with few exceptions from mentors and few exceptions from staff. Other than that, most of the times it is like they do not know what they are doing and the general manager or whatever the role is called, tends to get some personal vendetas about students that maybe talk a bit too much or ask detailed question.

I do not recomend this school, as it is almost totally unprofessional, does not keep the promises and acts almost like a traditional school.