Technigo

From the get-go, the bootcamp was hands-on, immersing us directly into the world of front-end development. The pace was fast, matching the ever-evolving nature of the tech industry, which ensured that every day was filled with new and challenging learning opportunities.

The curriculum was comprehensive, covering everything from the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to more advanced concepts like responsive design and front-end frameworks. What stood out to me was the practical approach to learning. We weren't just passive listeners; we were active participants, constantly applying what we learned through a series of projects that simulated real-world scenarios.

The instructors were knowledgeable and passionate, and helped us grasp complex concepts. The collaborative environment fostered by the bootcamp was another highlight, enabling us to learn from our peers and build a network of aspiring developers.

Recommend this to anyone who want to change their career fast or learn just for fun!

So, after a couple of months of recovery from this bootcamp, I feel ready to share my experience!
I went out this summer and have many times been about to advertise this course.

You pay an incredible amount of money and you get no help at all. This company is understaffed and the only help you basically get is via Stack, which is a website where you find out the answers yourself. This company is a scam that only wants money.

There were so many people who were dissatisfied with our course so I'm surprised they haven't gone bankrupt yet... On Technigo's website they have selected former students who describe how satisfied they are and that they changed careers. Let me be clear that those people have been doing some form of IT/TECH since before and had an easier time with this course than MANY of the rest of us had. So don't be fooled. This course is absolutely NOT tailored for new coders.

Whatever you do, absolutely do not apply to this bootcamp.

I am only writing this because I feel like I want to encourage people to take another path than, well...Technigo. 

I will start by listing the things that I was happy with. I was very happy with one code coach, who did the live sessions two days a week. These live coding sessions were very valuable for my understanding of the weekly projects and I can't be more grateful that I had at least one teacher who was very competent and, above all, an experienced developer and pedagogue. 

Another thing was my animal group, the group of individuals that you will collaborate with on projects throughout the whole course. They match you together based on location and I couldn't have been happier with mine. 


Now to the bad stuff: 

There is a lot of false advertising when it comes to the "code coaches". Not only are some of them very new to tech and therefore not very knowledgeable, there are just way too few of them to provide consistent support for a class of 50-60 students. 

Technigo received a lot of criticism from my cohort regarding the code coaches and the overall structure for receiving support (mainly through StackOverflow, which was useless in mine and many other peoples' opinion). I heard they are changing this  (by hiring more newly graduated BC attendees to be code coaches, hmm...) so maybe it has gotten better but hey I wouldn't expect too much if I were you. They rely on peer feedback to make the BC go round, because the huge cost of attending it is apparently not enough for Technigo to stop budgeting where it is crucial not to. Yes HR is costly, but for this price I really expected more. 

And the "community support"? Well, did I really expect alumni's to have the time to sit and answer my stupid questions in their spare time?

I apologize for the bitterness and unpleasantness of my tone, but these are my honest feelings about this BC and I don't want to sugarcoat my experience for someone else. I was far from alone in my experience, and you can't help but feeling a bit cheated of all the amazing things you were promised in the beginning. 

Also, why the hell are we learning Redux for state management in 2023?!

I attended Technigo's UX bootcamp. The bootcamp was marketed for complete beginners, for people who have a little design experience or for people already working within UX wanting to upskill the skills further. 

I attended the course with some design experience and was disappointed in the course curriculum and materials. But my biggest paint point was the lack of feedback. What is the point of paying 60 000kr if all you get is complete self-learning material and links to articles to read? Every week you submit your weekly project, but you do not get feedback about it which makes improving really difficult. So instead of getting feedback from the pro's - you get feedback from your team mates which are most likely complete beginners with no so much input. Every week 4 projects out of all the small teams get a few minutes to present their work and get a bit feedback, but getting a few minutes of feedback once a month is not really doing the trick for me. This was the biggest pain point for me. 

I also understand that Technigo is known for its coding bootcamps but using four (!) weeks on coding out of 16 weeks of study sprints feels a bit unnecessary as there would have been so much to learn within UX as well and that is the thing people are there for. It was all good for a solid week to understand better the co-op between developers and designers but that time was not well spent.  

After recently completing Google's UX certificate, I must only say that not only the course material is so much better, the feedback system works better too (although you don't get pro feedback there either) but most of all - you pay like 2 000 kr for the course instead of 60 000 with better results in my opinion.