Microverse

Wow, I'm really surprised that Microverse rating is 4,6/5, I was expecting to see something more realistic like 2 or 3 at most.

I must say, my first impression about their program was really good, I didn't know that companies that would teach you first... Read More and charge you only after you find a job existed, so it really amazed me and I had no doubts I should just jump in.

But in fact when you find out the truth about the program it is too late. Once you complete your first month, you already owe them $15,000. No matter what you did, whether if you finish the program or not you just have to pay for it, even if you leave and pay for another courses, it doesn't matter. The only way to not owe this huge amount is not working with tech ever in your life.

It is too late to quit the program when you figure out that the only honest thing about it is having coding partners to help holding you accountable.
The material you will use to study is TheOdinProject and other FREE STUFF on the web.
The people that will review your code are OTHER STUDENTS, JUST LIKE YOU.
The mock interviews are with OTHER STUDENTS.
When they say they guarantee you will master the topics in the course, THEY LIE. I finished Rails curriculum knowing that there was a lot more to study.

The best decision I took in my life was simply quit and continue studying on my own (as if I wasn't already doing that).

$15,000 for free material on the web is a joke. I wouldn't ever have started this program if I knew the truth before.

Meet and work with people who wish to grow and see themselves succeed! Daily activities help broaden not only your programming skills, but social as well. It gives you a sense of accomplishment and teaches you discipline and good habits. You get great... Read More material for reading and support during job hunting.

The course is too long, which is great overall. But is a weak point to those who have financial problems and cannot study 8 hours / day over several months due to work or other issues.

pros
you'll have the responsibility to show up everyday
job support is 2 stars
cons
they don't focus on impactful learning, 50% of your time is spent trying to figure things out
student website is extremely slow
it ALL depends on who you get partnered with.... Read More
Material is approx 98% free sources
The other 2% of the material is unique microverse material (usually capstone projects) and it's abysmal
just go on github and look up capstone projects from microverse students

I am 6 months into the program right now. I have learned so many things in these 6 months. And I have not paid a single cent yet. It's true - we don't pay Microverse anything until we get a job that pays us $1000+/month.

Microverse has truly changed my... Read More life. In about a month, I would be moving to career prep and start job searching. I feel confident about that. I feel confident about building industry-standard projects (I am building one right now!). Not only the technical knowledge but also the professional skills needed work in the software dev industry. And this all because of Microverse.

Did Microverse teach me all this? No. I taught all this myself. Microverse provided me the tools and resources to teach myself. The Student Success team constantly motivated me to move forward. My stand-up team and all of my coding partners held me accountable each day to make progress. I collaborated with coding partners from all over the world and made 30+ projects in HTML & CSS/ RUBY/ RUBY ON RAILS/ JAVASCRIPT/ REACT& REDUX.

Most importantly, Microverse taught me how to learn.

At Microverse, we teach ourselves because when you land a job you need to learn their culture, their codebase, their best practices, their documentation. There won't be any "teachers" or "classrooms" where you would sit and take note of these things. You need to teach yourself. Of course, there are people who would help you. That's why we have mentors, TSEs, and most importantly Student Success.

Microverse has a dedicated career service team that works with you throughout your job search and just like you, they don't stop until you land a job.

Lastly, I have seen many negative reviews here. Before you give them much thought, ask them to reveal their names, ask them to own their reviews, ask them to take responsibility for what they speak and not hide behind their screens and spread spam.

Every organization has its of the BAD and the GOOD. With those bad and good attributes in mind we choose to affiliate ourselves with some and then leave others behind based on what they offer. Because I'm with Microverse, I chose to write a review as... Read More accurate as I can. I hope it helps you take your own decisions.

PROS
1. Microverse does charge you any fee when you enroll. You only enter into an Income Share Agreement(ISA). You pay 15% of your monthly salary(>= $1000) until you settle the school fee of $15000 USD.
2. For Microverse, the ISA applies to everyone regardless of your geographical location or your race.
3. Microverse has a dedicated career coaching team that helps her students to find their dream jobs. As at the time of writing this review, 80% of the total students who have completed the curriculum got employed within three months. Other students are in their various stages of interviews.
4. In Microverse, all the students take a compulsary professional skills development curriculum alongside the technical skills curriculum. This is meant to groom the students well so that they fit in well at their workplaces. These include conflict resolution, how to write technical articles, the best way to introduce yourself to your potential employer, time management, etc.
5. In Microverse, every project or assignment that you do must be review and approved by the at least one Technical Support Expert(TSE) if the project is a mini project. If the project is a capstone project be reviewed and approved by at least three TSEs. Both approvals are based on the minimum requirement set down by the school. These and other things are done to avoid any technical skills acquisition backlog and also motivate the student for their current achievements.
6. In Microverse, you start using all the tools used for collaborative coding. For instance, Git and GitHub, Heroku, etc from day one you start the course. This makes the students become proficient in using these tools before joining the labor force.
7. Above all, the program is a mastery learning, which means, you progress as you master the modules in the curriculum. Your mastery is of the each module is determined by the mini projects and the capstone projects that you build.

CONS
1. The program is a full-time program. There is no arrangement for part-time. That being said, if you plan to enroll in Microverse, you cannot be working at the same time attending classes.
2. Microverse does not have lecturers who deliver lessons from a certain location for the students to listen to or take notes. Student only follow a curated curriculum for the students to use.
3. You must have a high speed internet connection in order to enroll in the course.

I dare those Anonymous reviewers to come forward with their names and details. They are just fake reviews and spamming the SwitchUp platform. I'll request switchUp to scrap those fake reviews about the school. I'm a current student and I'm very choosy... Read More about things. I've also graduated with computer science in a university program but still, I find things way better here. Microverse teaches you something you'll rarely find in the university programme and its project-based collaborative learning. I love to get paired and learn and worked on projects with people from different countries and different and with different learning pace. It gives you the confidence of doing things by collaboration and learning by doing. This is a practical learning project. TheOdinPoject and other free stuff support us no doubt, but the best thing found here is the support of Student Success, TSEs, Fellow StandUp Team, and the partner. They care us, follow up us and monitor our progress and suggest to enhance our progress like an offline school and sometimes even better than that. We're a group of curious learners from all over the world. And we're proud of our school. Most importantly they don't force you to pay before you earn minimum $1000/month and this is how generous and they are. Plus if you do better you get a chance to become a TSE and they help you financially while you continue your projects. The best school so far! Come join us and feel the difference.

Pros
-none except for a cheap accountability system and begins to break down over time once you realize the truth.
Cons
- If you ever get stuck you won't have any teachers to ask questions, you are on your own!
- Everything is automated , i haven't interacted... Read More with anyone else except other students.
- TSE's are students, and so are the mentors for the most part.

The review of paying 15k for the odinProject is as spot on as can be.
From day one all i've been doing is following the OdinProject and a few other FREE resources.
All TSE do is point things out that are wrong with your code, they don't even tell you what you can do to improve.

If you're thinking in starting at microverse, allow me to save you some money, go to theodinproject.com and follow the lessons there.

At microverse when you start, you'll be assigned a mentor, which is another student, usually with no knowledge in programming,... Read More and usually with little to no experience. Anybody can be a mentor at microverse.

The so called code reviews, are also done by other students, and here the same applies, limited knowledge and experience.

No teachers to teach, just links to theodinprojects. This is the most expensive way of paying to go to a free website.

If you don't want to pay 15K for a quite useless curriculum, go to the odin project, hackerank.com and exercism.io. That is all you need.

I'm going to be brief. Are you learning programming and you feel there is 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... Read More skill: Working with people. You will be working full time focused on learning relevant skill while working with someone else everyday 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 not just a school, they are a global family. At this school I find the great friends for the rest of my life, I learned a lot and I they changed my life and my mindset. They really helped me to find a good job. Become the Microverse student... Read More was the best decision I ever made in my life!