Ironhack

I have had the opportunity to attend several computer courses, as I have been in the business for over 15 years and can assure you that Ironhack's Web Development course is the best by far. The reason? 100% practical classes, where we are forced to overcome the limit of comfortable using logic and creativity, with well-defined deadlines and always simulating the environment closest to the professional. There are no monotonous classes where the teacher speaks and we are required to either copy without paying attention or paying attention and not putting into practice. Here the classes are dynamic, there is pair programming with random choice of doubles, and at the end of each module the projects push the boundary even further, where we are challenged to create complete solutions. Anyway, if you are looking for a school where you really learn to program, Ironhack is your choice.

I joined Ironhack UX/UI full-time design bootcamp after recommendation and many positive reviews I read on the Internet. It is imporant to notice here than Ironhack has many locations and for sure there is a lot of differences between them - actually it's hard to find them about this specific course in Berlin, so this is why I decided to write my opinion here.

Maybe I will start from positive part here. The working environment it's really amazing, mostly due to the people who participate in the course. It's really great to work with people with different skills and with various background - everyone was very supportive, kind and helpful. When you are stuck with anything, you can always count on your classmates. Also, I think the curriculum is well constructed and contains the most imporant information - of course, it's super intense and it's not possible to remember everything from the lectures but you will get a forever access to the learning platform - pretty helpful. The cool building, comfortable chairs and the free barista were also big advantages :)

Before joining the course, I studied carefully the info and details on their wbesites. For sure, Ironhack promises a lot and it's not suprising, beacuse the bootcamps are very expensive (and getting even more). I would like to refer here to some of their promises.

First of all, the lead teacher is not a UX/UI designer, but a visual designer, and acutally he is not even really interested in the UX part and as he admitted, he has never really worked with it. I expected him to have a broad knowledge about UX, but it was pretty limited to the slides he was presenting. Also, he was very hardly accessible - he was usually leaving early or were always busy with something else. To be honest, he didn't seem really interested in the job.

Ironhack presents itself as a team "tech spec" - but a lot of times they are just lacking skills. The teacher and TA are definetely not specialist in the sofwares that are used during the course - it's very dissapointing. During the career week, some invited people to the school seemed pretty random - maybe just to fill our time with something? I'm not sure if inviting a person who is an ex-TA who doesn't have a job yet as an "interview specialist" or doing negotiation workshops with a person who has no experience with it is the best idea... I think Ironhack should really take closer look at the people who they are hiring - both the teacher and TAs seem often unmotivated and not really engaged in their work. I understand they are not professional designers but sometimes their advice and knowledge is lower that the participants of the course. And also, complaining about students in the common areas, where everyone can hear it, is VERY unprofessional.

Overall, I learned a lot during the course, but it was a lot of my individual work I put in it and also from people I ask for advice from - unfortunetely I can't say the staff was really helpful. I think that Ironhack is not a bad school, but for this price, people's expectations were way higher, what almost everyone admitted at the end. At the moment, I'd advice to think twice before joining campus in Berlin and maybe to consider different locations.

Very good and highly recommend (Data Analytics), during the course you realize how much the course content was scaled in a way that shows a little of everything in the data area, but without being superficial. And during the course the team here from Brazil reviewed the entire content, making it more interesting and applicable to the daily work.

I just think that the teacher (not to mention the excellent TAs) could have participated a little more of the classes, because in the first two weeks and in the last two weeks she was absent due to trips and so on.

Very good and highly recommend (Data Analytics), during the course you realize how much the course content was scaled in a way that shows a little of everything in the data area, but without being superficial. And during the course the team here from Brazil reviewed the entire content, making it more interesting and applicable to the daily work.

I just think that the teacher (not to mention the excellent TAs) could have participated a little more of the classes, because in the first two weeks and in the last two weeks she was absent due to trips and so on.

I am a musician but I always loved technology and wanted to study programming. However, I didn't want to spend four years studying in a university so a bootcamp was a natural choice for me. I chose Ironhack because they have a complete and robust web development course, preparation for the market, and a hiring fair with lots of good companies. In fact, I was employed by one of the companies that attended the hiring fair only one week after finishing the course. Other than that, the technologies you learn are all current so you learn what is most used in the current market. They have a good infrastructure and the whole Ironhack team is very supportive and attentive to the students' needs.

Unsatisfied with my professional area, I decided to migrate to the area of ​​UX UI Design. So I went looking for a school that was well evaluated and matched my goals, so I would feel well prepared to the professional market and be able to extract maximum knowledge in a short time. At Ironhack I could find everything I was looking for. Learning has given me a wealth of knowledge not only for working life, but for personal as well. In addition to the UX and UI Design tools, we have also learned about Agile methodology and better teamwork techniques. At the end of the bootcamp, there was still uncertainty about getting a job, but it came quickly, within two weeks I had a job offer, which made me even more sure that I had made the right choice by betting at Ironhack.

I wanted to switch my career and learn coding and after considering a university degree and some coding bootcamps I talked to Ironhack and was convinced very quickly.  I was looking for a learning environment among people as motivated and enthusiastic about web development as me. Ironhack provided me with such an environment, support from the best teachers and the necessary web development skills.I really enjoyed my time there, especially project weeks when we built professional websites in unbelievable 4 to 9 days. Another reason I joined Ironhack was because they promised me 95% chance of employment within 2-3 months after the graduation. They didn't lie!  During their career week I met my current employer and got an offer one week later. Thank you so much Montasar, Min, Svenja, Bruno, Mili, Veronika, Daniel and other team members of Ironhack Berlin!