General Assembly
General Assembly is a technical education provider that teaches students the skills, career advice and networking opportunities needed to make a career change into a tech role, in as little as three months. General Assembly offers part-time and full-time bootcamps and short courses in web and mobile development, product management, data science, and more. The bootcamp experience is led by instructors who are expert practitioners in their field. Students should expect to build a solid portfolio of real-life projects. Since 2011, General Assembly has graduated more than 40,000 students worldwide from the full time and part time bootcamp.
To enroll at General Assembly, applicants should submit an online application to connect with a GA Admissions team member who will work with them to decide if a tech bootcamps is the right fit. The GA Admissions staff are also prepared to speak with applicants about the best tech role for them, learning styles at GA, expected outcomes after the bootcamp, options to finance the bootcamp, career services offered by GA, and more.
To help students land their first job in a tech role, General Assembly students are supported by career coaches from day one. The program is enhanced by a career services team that is constantly in talks with employers about their tech hiring needs.
705 General Assembly Reviews
AnonymousData Analysis On-Demand • OnlineOct 10, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceData Analysis (Online)
I personally thought it was a great program that was really what you made of it. It had a vast array of resources to define one's skills, but at the same time was not too time consuming and demanding.
- AnonymousStudent • Data Science Immersive • WashingtonOct 05, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Problems with the DC data science program
We're in week 10 of the 12-week data science immersive program, and I really regret choosing GA. Last week, after almost 2 months of ignoring student concerns, the administration parted ways with our lead instructor, gave us a 20% discount, and decided to extend the program by a week. You can imagine what the program has been like for these things to happen.
There ARE some wonderful people working at GA. However there isn't quality control (on anything), an...
We're in week 10 of the 12-week data science immersive program, and I really regret choosing GA. Last week, after almost 2 months of ignoring student concerns, the administration parted ways with our lead instructor, gave us a 20% discount, and decided to extend the program by a week. You can imagine what the program has been like for these things to happen.
There ARE some wonderful people working at GA. However there isn't quality control (on anything), and the administration has handled the situation in our class quite poorly. I'd recommend choosing a better and better-established program, even if you plan to work in DC.
- AnonymousGraduate • Web Development Immersive • SeattleSep 15, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Seattle Job Market is Difficult
The instructors are hit or miss; we had one amazing instructor, but the other instructor was often unprepared to teach. The curriculum gives a good introduction to the basics as well as cutting edge technologies for web development and the projects provide good hands on experience. There is very little job assistance following graduation. GA advertises a reverse job fair where employers come to see your work, but for ours only 5 recruiters showed up and they were looking for people with...
The instructors are hit or miss; we had one amazing instructor, but the other instructor was often unprepared to teach. The curriculum gives a good introduction to the basics as well as cutting edge technologies for web development and the projects provide good hands on experience. There is very little job assistance following graduation. GA advertises a reverse job fair where employers come to see your work, but for ours only 5 recruiters showed up and they were looking for people with previous tech experience. GA does not have relationships with companies to place students for internships or jobs. Especially in Seattle, if you do not have previous experience in the tech industry or a large network of friends in tech, you will struggle to find a job. 5 months after graduation, only 4 people in our cohort are working in tech.
- AnonymousWeb Developer • Graduate • Web Development Immersive • New York CityAug 30, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Web Development Immersive NYC
Overall, an incredible opportunity that you can and will see the rewards from if you are willing to put the time and effort in. Having absolutely no technical background 6 months prior to application/acceptance of the web dev bootcamp, I am now a full time web developer. It is one of the most difficult and time consuming thing I have ever done. It is 12 weeks of non stop work, realistically somewhere between 60-80/hrs of work per week. Very fast paced, and a TON of information, much of whi...
Overall, an incredible opportunity that you can and will see the rewards from if you are willing to put the time and effort in. Having absolutely no technical background 6 months prior to application/acceptance of the web dev bootcamp, I am now a full time web developer. It is one of the most difficult and time consuming thing I have ever done. It is 12 weeks of non stop work, realistically somewhere between 60-80/hrs of work per week. Very fast paced, and a TON of information, much of which you aren't even sure your actually learning until you've moved on from it and are applying the concepts in actual work.
Very relevant course work and curriculum, they definitely make an effort to stay ahead of industry trends to put you in the best position possible after graduation.
You leave the course with the skills you need to be productive in an entry level position, which I guess is really all you can ask for from a school.
Job Assistance is kind of a joke, keeping in contact with your post graduation career coach is a hassel, they speak to you like a parent making sure their kid did their chores for the week. Many areas of improvement here, the class science fair should be a demo day for potential employers not the students in other cohorts, interview prep was minimal, and the job "leads" they give you are just jobs youd see searching on your own.
- AnonymousUser Experience Design (Part-time) • MelbourneAug 15, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
UXD-Melbourne
A terrific course that covered off a lot of ground. The entire UX journey is part of the curriculum and in the most part was very interesting and enjoyable.
As this course was the part time version of UXD unfortunately there is not much emphasis given to assistance transitioning into a UX career, although in saying that I am now confident to conduct my own case studies and apply UX thinking to them.
The delivery of the course was by 3 people from the industry who ranged...
A terrific course that covered off a lot of ground. The entire UX journey is part of the curriculum and in the most part was very interesting and enjoyable.
As this course was the part time version of UXD unfortunately there is not much emphasis given to assistance transitioning into a UX career, although in saying that I am now confident to conduct my own case studies and apply UX thinking to them.
The delivery of the course was by 3 people from the industry who ranged in the experience levels. George the main course facilitator was excellent, he was approachable, calm, insightlful and delivered the content in a really pleasent manner.
- AnonymousStudent • San FranciscoAug 09, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Front End Web Dev -- Part-Time -- SF
I came to GA with no programming background and I'm 47 y.o. I started the 10 week course with one instructor. I lasted two classes (of 20) before dropping. The instructor was nice, but he had never taught before and it showed. No preparation -- just winging the lectures. He knew the concepts but not communicate them. No go.
I re-enrolled in the next 10 week course and it was awesome. Sarah Holden in the star in SF. In every class she had 30 to 80 slides, a cheat sheet, li...
I came to GA with no programming background and I'm 47 y.o. I started the 10 week course with one instructor. I lasted two classes (of 20) before dropping. The instructor was nice, but he had never taught before and it showed. No preparation -- just winging the lectures. He knew the concepts but not communicate them. No go.
I re-enrolled in the next 10 week course and it was awesome. Sarah Holden in the star in SF. In every class she had 30 to 80 slides, a cheat sheet, little exercises, and lots of support. Her lectures are superb -- night v day from the other class. If you take the part time front end web design class in SF, take Sarah's class or don't enroll -- that's my advice.
- AnonymousSoftware Engineer • Graduate • Web Development Immersive • New York CityAug 07, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
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he cGreat coding school. A lot depends on the instructors. Classes can feel crowded. The curriculum was relevant then but less so now (may have changed).
- AnonymousWeb Developer, Online Instructor • Graduate • Web Development Immersive • New York CityAug 07, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
A Great Opportunity
Enrolling in the full-time Web Development Immersive (WDI) at General Assembly was one of the best decisions of my life. The people and instructors I met there were incredible; we have fantastic relationships to this day, and as a freelancer, my network has been utterly invaluable in building my own self-sustained business. I highly recommend the school and the course; do your homework, do all of the pre-work, and make sure this is what you want to do. Then, spend all of your time learning...
Enrolling in the full-time Web Development Immersive (WDI) at General Assembly was one of the best decisions of my life. The people and instructors I met there were incredible; we have fantastic relationships to this day, and as a freelancer, my network has been utterly invaluable in building my own self-sustained business. I highly recommend the school and the course; do your homework, do all of the pre-work, and make sure this is what you want to do. Then, spend all of your time learning, experimenting, and making apps that truly interest you. Break code. Fix code. Learn code. Google everything. This course taught me how to ask the right questions, much like a new developer does on the job. The skills I learned here were absolutely transferable to a real-life job situation. The instructors not only introduced us to code, but the entire coding community. Our guest speakers were movers and shakers in the tech industry, and they never hesitated to teach us what was relevant in the world, even if that meant minor additions to the curriculum. We were tight-knit and eager to learn; our instructors saw our genuine interest and potential, and our class has remained incredibly close two years later. It wasn't my intention, but I made friends for life at General Assembly and learned life-changing career skills.
- AnonymousGraduate • San FranciscoAug 05, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Front End Web Development
Part-time class in SF learning the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The class focused largely on JavaScript and culminated in individual projects.
- AnonymousSr. QA • Graduate • San FranciscoAug 04, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Sr. QA
Great mix of professionals and students - AnonymousGraduate • Web Development Immersive • New York CityAug 04, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Good Experience
The intensity of coursework seemed appropriate and I came out of the Immersive with what I feel is a strong foundation in web development. They may want to consider expanding the length of the course to better prepare people for the job market with further skills, as it seems getting in at the entry level requires more experience than the Immersive provides. Stronger internship placement would be a boon as well. The instructors were very good, dealt well with the varying skill levels in th...
The intensity of coursework seemed appropriate and I came out of the Immersive with what I feel is a strong foundation in web development. They may want to consider expanding the length of the course to better prepare people for the job market with further skills, as it seems getting in at the entry level requires more experience than the Immersive provides. Stronger internship placement would be a boon as well. The instructors were very good, dealt well with the varying skill levels in the class, and I would recommend the experience overall.
- AnonymousGraduate • Web Development Immersive • New York CityAug 04, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Comprehensive Preparation
I think GA delivered on what they promised. At times, it felt like glorified, guided self-education. A lot of it involves googling answers to problems. You know what? That's fine, really. That's often what you do in the real world. Sometimes, I felt like the instruction was a little too hands off for the price tag, though. I'd still do it again. No regrets.
The basic jist is it will prepare you for working in a web job. It's heavily technology-based, light on computer science an...I think GA delivered on what they promised. At times, it felt like glorified, guided self-education. A lot of it involves googling answers to problems. You know what? That's fine, really. That's often what you do in the real world. Sometimes, I felt like the instruction was a little too hands off for the price tag, though. I'd still do it again. No regrets.
The basic jist is it will prepare you for working in a web job. It's heavily technology-based, light on computer science and theory, which is fine. It doesn't help in some interviews where they'll ask a lot of computer science questions that you have no idea how to answer, but dammit, you've built web applications! And that should be good enough. There's no one-size-fits-all approach to teaching programming and development. Their model is relatively good at making people into entry-level to junior level developers with some hands-on experience in current web technologies.
General Assembly Alumni Outcomes
| Description | Percentage |
| Full Time, In-Field Employee | N/A |
| Full-time apprenticeship, internship or contract position | N/A |
| Short-term contract, part-time position, freelance | N/A |
| Employed out-of-field | N/A |
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How much does General Assembly cost?
General Assembly costs around $16,450. On the lower end, some General Assembly courses like Visual Design (Short Course) cost $3,500.
What courses does General Assembly teach?
General Assembly offers courses like 1. Data Science Bootcamp (Full Time), 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time), 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Part Time), 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) and 13 more.
Where does General Assembly have campuses?
General Assembly has in-person campuses in London, New York City, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney. General Assembly also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.
Is General Assembly worth it?
The data says yes! General Assembly reports a 84% graduation rate, and 95% of General Assembly alumni are employed. The data says yes! In 2021, General Assembly reported a 82% graduation rate, a median salary of , and N/A of General Assembly alumni are employed.
Is General Assembly legit?
We let alumni answer that question. 705 General Assembly alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed General Assembly and rate their overall experience a 4.31 out of 5.
Does General Assembly offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
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