Microverse

Enrolling at Microverse is one of the greatest things that ever happened to me. Here at Microverse, you don't pay tuition upfront until you land your dream job and earning at least 1,000 USD. As a student of Microverse, I've learned a whole lot here as regards software development, remote work, pair-programming, communication skills, mentorship, and collaborative skills.
The way the program is structured is entirely amazing. Here, the methodology is project-based. There're five modules on this program and the students and their coding partners have a series of projects to work on each module, which is amazing. Some projects are solo while some others are collaborative. This approach helps the students to learn pair-programming, remote work, and collaboration.
There're both mandatory and extra algorithms and data structures in the technical curriculum to help the students improve their problem-solving skills.
Also, there're fantastic Career Coaches that helps the students prepare and land their dream jobs at the end of the tech curriculum.
There's a whole lot to write but I'll have to stop here. However, I won't forget to say that Microverse also helps some students who are committed and are facing financial challenges with student supports. And I'm currently a beneficiary of the Microverse stipend support.
So, there's nothing I do not like @Microverse.
Sincerely,
James.
Thank you.

Pros:
-  Microverse has a significant and rare support feature other schools\bootcamps don't offer, which is no upfront payment, without such facilitation 
   wouldn't be able to study, I know this applies to many other students too.
- Overall very good study experience
- Learning with partners or collaborators
- Help graduates with landing a job

Can be improved:
- No live chat support
- Insufficient study material, especially for Ruby. It is time-consuming to google everything 

I'm going to be brief. Are you learning to program and you feel there is still something missing between you and getting a great job? That's exactly the space Microverse will fill. There you will not only learn the technical knowledge but also a really important skill: Working with people. You will be working full time focused on learning relevant skills while working with someone else every day in English. Trust me there is no better experience you can have out there in order to get a job. I'm currently living a dream working for an American company as a Full Stack Developer. Exactly what I wanted and what I planned before joining Microverse.

Microverse is a global school for software developers. From my experience, it emphasizes two main aspects: technical skills and soft skills, both of which are very important for a software developer.

I studied Biology and am new to programming. I started coding in January 2018 and it’s amazing how quickly I am growing. I remember the excitement and fulfillment I felt after completing the tic-tac-toe game project using Ruby.

For the first time, I felt like a programmer and the thought of everything being possible kept ringing in my mind. As a programming novice, what I love about Microverse is the way their material is organized and how every topic builds on a previous one facilitating the understanding of concepts that are sometimes difficult.

As a Cameroonian African, the major difficulty we face with online studies is the inability to financially sponsor our studies, but when I heard that Microverse teaches for free until you land a job, I immediately saw an opportunity to build my programming skills without financial worries.

Today makes me 19 weeks of working with Microverse. I have one last project with Ruby on Rails and am hoping to enter the Career Prep part of the program as fast as possible

I've been a student in Microverse for 4 months already, i think this has been a great experience overall since day 1. 
New students are grouped in teams of 5(like scrum), this methodology helps improve the student's abilities by allowing them to share their daily experiences with others students from around the world(amazing huh?) while also improving communication and team work.
Personally i can give testimony of the amazing staff Microverse has, they are always open to hear you whenever you have a difficulty and that says a lot about their mindset as a company.
Pros:
-Great way to start your software development career.
-Meet people around the world.
-Build experience.
-Helps you build a daily routine and discipline.
-Improves communication and team work.
Cons:
You need a 10mb stable internet connection at all times(for collaborating with your coding partner in video call)
There is some basic web development and coding requirements to join.
For some people with different timezones to the US, it might be difficult to attend the program since its from 9am-5pm

Joining Microverse was the best decision of my life.

I studied Computer Science in college, but I learned more in 3 months at Microverse than I learned in 3 years at university. The difference was my college's curriculum was built around theory instead of practice.

Microverse helped me learn how to use real-world tools and connect with passionate students like myself from all over the world. I never had that while at my university.

I would recommend Microverse to anyone who wants to become a world-class developer and create a global network of friends.

I am an Algerian woman, married with 5 children, who gave up her professional career as a computer engineer to start a new one at 'Microverse'. The desire to grow in my field has been steadily increasing since my graduation from university in 1996, however, I have encountered many obstacles "The internet, child-rearing, the nature of my work and others, "which prevented me from realizing my dream.
My admission to 'Microverse' last January, put me in a great dilemma, either leaving my job and fulfilling my dream or continue my normal life and give up my dream.
Sure, I chose without hesitation to join 'Microverse'. Now after hard working, I have finished my technical curriculum, I have learned with my partner, my team, and the reviews of many TSEs (Technical Support Engineers) all that is needed for web development (frontend and backend), and I am ready to move on to my new professional career also with the assistance of 'Microverse' staff.

I recommend Microverse Bootcamp to anybody because it's: safe, pleasant, beneficial, and the most important thing it's free until you got a job.

This program is good. Most bootcamps has few teachers lecturing you and guiding projects. But this one is self-learning most of the time meaning u actually reach a higher state of mastery. While you can also study on your own without this program, the program brings the added advantage to have have taken the time to select the best web ressources for each stage ( sometimes currated internally by the Microverse team or students in the program). You can even take a twist to reading extra materials provided if you wish.
- You are not in a rush to finish because you maybe paid for a specific duration. It's free BEFORE you get a job, so your personal commitment gets you going (you learn better in such a circumstance).
- In my country (in africa), there's simply no good bootcamps. Microverse solves this issue coming from online
- No need to mention the power of working with people from all over the world (priceless)
- You cannot code about 31 projects (all reviewed) and solve hundreds of  coding challenges in multiple platforms and not be a decent programmer.
All students wont have same level when they finish, but you would be a decent job-ready programmer :) 
The student spirit /atmosphere is great ............ I wish more success to this TEAM
(finished the program in 8 months and just entered Career preparation section )

Personally had my share of troubles hahaha
- internet and electricity sometimes (issues of africa)
- temporal frustrations when you code not working, or working but not passing reviews (it's not an issue, just so you know it's in the process lol )

DOPE Program overall !

I graduated high school and decided to learn software development instead of going to college. At first, I learned on my own with freeCodeCamp, Udemy, Udacity, and YouTube videos.

I learned about Microverse and that they would help you become a software developer free of charge until you had a job. I also read that everything was done in pairs, and I was interested because I wanted to try working with another developer. I also saw they had code reviewers check your work. I applied and was accepted.

I was paired with Kevin, a developer from Kenya. I’m from Serbia and we only had a small time difference, so it worked out well. Pair programming had a lot of benefits. For example, Kevin had more programming experience than me, which was really helpful. He taught me more about algorithms and databases, and due to my experience in front-end web development, I was also able to teach him few things.

I was doing the Career Prep portion of the curriculum when I saw a local internship that tends to lead to a full-time job. I had already practiced some algorithms and interview questions with Microverse, and I was glad that some of those questions were on the interview. I passed and got the internship.

I would definitely recommend Microverse to anyone who is hungry to learn software development and willing to dedicate 6 months or so.

Pros overview- We can get experience in working with non-English native people from especially developing countries- We can get experience in collaborating in a remote pair-programming with non-English native people - We can get confident to some extent in base technical knowledge on the fields that we learn in the curriculum
Cons overview- Most of the male students don't have enough moral, manners, ethics- Management or support team don't work so hard, their response is much slower than they should do- Sometimes we need to take paid-courses by ourselves other than the materials provided in order to understand the concept 
Pros- I improved my English through the whole curriculum. This is because I always needed to communicate with people from different countries. Most of them are non-English native, so they have different pronounce or accents. At the beginning of the curriculum, I couldn't understand what they say in the meetings. As days are passing, I can understand it. And now I get 100% of what they say and what other non-native speakers say.
- I have confidence in the basic knowledge of the fields I learned in the curriculum. That includes HTML, CSS, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and React & Redux. This is because we need to pass the capstone project for each language. And for passing them, we need to learn the whole basic concept and skills. It means that passing all the capstone projects was tough and challenging for us. That's why we can get confidence in the skills that fields.Also, we build a lot of projects in our own GitHub repository, so they prove what we learned and what we can do so far.They also make us feel confident in what we learned.
Cons- The support team always says the reason why they don't work enough. "Microverse doesn't have teachers. So don't ask us to work more, you should work by yourself". But actually, they don't work hard enough even though they ask us to work so hard. Even though they ask us to submit our project or to finish the curriculum within certain days, their response takes basically  2 or 3 days. Sometimes, it takes more than 3 working days even though they say "We are supposed to reply within 3 working days". In my opinion, if they want to ask us to submit the curriculum or react to a particular action within certain days, they also should react to students' action as possible as they could, at least within 1 working day.
- The materials that they provide are not enough for us to complete all the curriculum including the capstone project. Sometimes we need to learn more than the materials they provided to achieve the requirements of the projects that are required us to submit.And some of the materials are tough for beginners to understand easily and meaningless. I guess it can't be helped because they try to provide free materials. Actually, for me, I needed to take some paid online courses like Udemy to pass the curriculum.
- Most of the students are from developing countries and they haven't got enough education on morals or ethics. I guess that's why most male students have no enough morals, manners, or ethics. Recently Microvese finally decided to act on that problem, so in the future, it might be improved little by little.