Fullstack Academy

Great instruction and curriculum by Priti, Ben W., Collin, and Finn. With only a few technologies, FSA spends more time teaching what is harder to learn on your own, teaching high-level concepts with practical application. Excellent career support by Holly that does not make unrealistic promises or do any of the work for you: they are support in the perfect sense and show you how to have the most efficient job search possible. My few qualms are not as much raw SQL and data structures/algorithms instruction as I would I have liked, and I feel the basic concepts of these would be easy to incorporate into the Foundations portion of the course, which would leave a little more time for more in-depth study/practice that is harder to do on one's own during the immersive phase.

Fullstack Academy is a fantastic program that took me from knowing little to nothing about coding to having a skillset good enough to get me a job as a software engineer. Their program is a great educational balance of practicality and theory. I cannot recommend it higher. It truly turned my life from having no direction to on the road to a great career in tech! The instructors are great, the program is great, and the career advisor is a fantastic help. Couldn't have made this happen without the preparation and support fullstack provides for both its students and fellows.

I always thought coding seemed cool, so I thought I'd pay the super resonable fee take Bootcamp Prep on-campus and just see what happens... 8 months later I am nearing the end of my fellowship, having accepted a life-changing job offer, and I can now officially define myself a software engineer. This is not the way I ever imagined my life would go, considering I graduated college with a creative writing degree, but I've truly never been happier or ever felt this proud of myself.

The curriculum, the staff, and the other students are all incredibly dedicated and hardworking. I feel as though I have gained lifelong friends and mentors.

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I had a great experience during my time at Fullstack Academy Chicago, and the people there really foster an awesome environment for learning. The instructors are very knowledgeable, friendly, and accessible. The fellows are always there to help someone through a bug or a difficult concept. The students are committed to learning and helping each other out. The career success lead Holly did a great job helping me transition to my first software developer role, even months after I graduated. Fullstack really built an incredible community with good people, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone trying to break into the software development field.

Attending to Fullstack Academy was the best decision of my life. I have found my true passion and gained a lot of valuable skills. Besides that, I also had the best friendships during my time at Fullstack.

I attended Fullstack from September to December in 2018 at Chicago Campus. Then, I was hired by Fullstack as a Teaching Fellow where I worked there for 3 months. About 2 months after the end of my fellowship, I found a job at my dream company, Google, as a Web Solutions Engineer.

Before Fullstack, I was a PhD student in Molecular Biology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I had interest to coding before; but it was always like a hobby. After I quit grad school, the best thing I know was coding (seriously, I didn’t have skills in any area besides biology) and I wante...

I’m gonna try a Q&A interview style here.

Q. What were you doing before?

A. I majored in business for my undergrad degree. Worked in finance for several years, then joined a startup company doing marketing.

Q. How did you become interested in coding?

A. Throughout my career, and many of you will or already may have experienced is that companies are continuously trying to automate workflows. Who plays the crucial role? Developers! To even work as a project manager role, you can no longer be in the dark of all the technical side. I believed that it was a must-have-skillset.

Q. Why did you decide to go to Fullstack?

A. The coding bootcamp industry has been around for almost a decade already. Big companies are recognizing this and acquiring the bootcamps. It is no l...

I was looking to make a career change and knew going to get another 4-year degree was not in the picture for me (too costly, both money and time wise). I chose the Grace Hopper program because many of my recruiter friends were familiar with the bootcamp and the companies their graduates go were in line with what I was looking for, big name companies.

The program itself was phenomenal. The first half involved a ton of lectures and workshops and the second half was all project-based. What really stood out to me were the teachers and the fellows. The teachers were absolutely the best part of the program! So patient, so caring - I felt incredibly lucky to be one of their students.

If you're considering attending a bootcamp - Grace Hopper and Fullstack is the way to go!

Before Fullstack Academy, I worked as a marketing for a firm then I turned into doing website for that company. I felt that I have some talent in doing the front end but it not really meaningful in term of money. I used to think that I can learn coding from online or self taught but that is not an efficient way for today tech industry. I am glad that I decided to join Fullstack and it was the center piece of my career changing events. Now I start a job, which several years ago I have no idea how to get this pay rate. Also the career that have potential growth just the matter of effort you can put into learning for the future. As many students mention in their reviews Fullstack Academy have all the good ingredients from curriculum, instructors, staffs, classmates and career counselor. Bu...

I graduated the first week of April 2019 from the Chicago program and had two job offers within three weeks because of the phenomenal network FSA has and the super-solid career success resources available after graduation. The program is definitely immersive and demanding, but it if you are committed to the process you will feel like a rockstar when you graduate. I came into the program with a technical background, but there were SO MANY stellar students from all walks of life. The students are mostly in their 20s and early 30s, so it's a vibrant atmosphere but also very professional. Everyone in my cohort was dedicated and it made the entire experience richer for it. You definitely get what you pay for here, I would hands-down do it all over again.

For what it's worth, Chicago has a...

Wow, Fullstack Academy was an amazing experience. I enjoyed every aspect of the program. I learned a lot, but most importantly they help me achieve my goal of getting a job in the software development field!

Collin, Ben, and Finn were the instructors I learned closely from and I was very encouraged by their mastery of programming and their passionate willingness to share their knowledge with me. They were always asking us as students to please come to them if we had any questions. Their door was always open because their desks were right next to ours! They were with us the entire way.

Holly with the Career Succes department was amazing too. She brought passion to the school every day too and she goes over 100% to get the students careers launched. I could talk with her, ask her ca...

I've only ever attended this one bootcamp, so I can't fully compare this to other bootcamps, but I will say that compared to learning online or using free resources, I have absolutely no regrets.

I attended FullStack's Grace Hopper Program, which is identical to its regular co-ed immersive in its curriculum. As a woman and someone without a trust fund, I felt I could really benefit from the environment and the deferred tuition. I liked the program and environment so much that I decided to stick around after graduating as a Teaching Fellow.

The best thing I liked about FullStack is that they are truly invested in your success. Unlike App Academy or Hack Reactor, there are no weekly "elimination" tests where you might get kicked out for not having a passing grade. There is only one ...

Fullstack Academy is the bootcamp for you if you're looking to learn the right technologies as well as get career support to find a job quickly. The teachers, career counselor and the staff are very student-centric and are always available to provide support.

The curriculum is very enhanced, so be prepared to work a lot and dedicate as much time as you can if you want to make the most of the process. Pair programming is a big part of the course and is a great way to absorb the material faster. The curriculum also includes career workshops that prepare students for the market. Fullstack also provides a wide range of services to prepare for technical interviews and has a big network of school alumni, which makes it easy to connect with engineers in leading companies.

I loved having ...

Is Fullstack Academy worth attending? I’ll say yes, but with a grain of salt. I’ll cover a few negatives, and then I’ll also explain why I still recommend the program to my friends. This will be a long review! Buckle in.

Let’s dive into the ‘grain of salt’ first: time constraints, price constraints, career services, and diversity.

First: time frame. Fullstack does a great job at creating a truly immersive environment; however, a three month program (or a four month, if you factor in the requisite pre-program prep work) is simply not enough to truly learn CS fundamentals. A subject a CS undergraduate seeker might spend an entire semester learning is, due to necessity, crammed and condensed into a single afternoon at Fullstack. This is a good thing in terms of information density - ...

Fullstack Academy has developed a challenging and exhaustive curriculum that will definitely keep you busy past 5pm. Fullstack is a great program for people who want balance (i.e. maintain a social life, have families) and for independent learners who have plenty of time to become immersed in the curriculum 24/7. If you're not sure if you can handle a 10+ hour day at another program or if you can manage studying on your own outside normal class hours, then Fullstack is for you. (Also, it's very likely that no one is going to plan out your entire day for you on the job, so get used to being self-sufficient.)

The staff and teaching fellows are incredibly understanding and assess each situation on a case-by-case basis if something comes up. They will give you more, if you ask. But you ...

I graduated from the Chicago campus of Fullstack Academy in October 2018, and having since started my new job as a Software Engineer, I can confidently say that enrolling at Fullstack was one of the best decisions I’ve made. Prior to transitioning to coding, I was on a completely different career path and was thinking of attending medical school. The development world was entirely new to me, but once I got into it, I figured that a bootcamp was the best way to immerse myself in it and embrace this new field. I researched several programs similar to Fullstack (some in NYC, where I was living previously, and some in Chicago) and ended up applying to and being accepted to three. My decision to attend FSA was based on how seriously they took the interview and preparation process as well as ...

My thoughts echo many of the other positive reviews on this page. My time at Fullstack (in Chicago) was amazing and the outcomes I've seen since I graduated 1 month ago are unparalleled.

My objective going into Fullstack was to find a job that would allow me to integrate my background in civil & environmental engineering with software development. At the same time, there were many students in my cohort looking to switch careers completely. I think that's one of the great things about software development...it's ubiquitous! The skills and technologies you'll learn at Fullstack will prepare you to enter any industry, from FinTech to EdTech.

Fullstack's curriculum/setup is great. The first half of the program is lecture-based. During this time, you'll digest A LOT of new informatio...

In thinking about how to effectively review my experience at Fullstack, I guess it’s most useful to let my trajectory speak for itself: I attended Fullstack Academy in the fall, graduated in December, and was hired within 2 weeks of graduation as a Junior Developer at an awesome company. Altogether, Fullstack met and exceeded every expectation I had and I can recommend it without hesitation.

Prior to attending FSA (and more specifically, Grace Hopper), I was a high school math teacher with very iffy coding skills. I knew that I liked to code, and I could write basic for-loops in Ruby. I decided that I wanted a more challenging career and I wanted a skillset that was more in-demand than teaching experience. I talked to a few friends who had attended bootcamps to hear their experie...

I decided to attend Fullstack after over 10 years running people operations. And it was the right decision! If you are planning to make a career switch to coding, Fullstack is an amazing program. The teachers in Chicago are awesome. Ben, Collin, and Finn taught me how to code, pair program, and develop a complete application with a team. The curriculum is great, focusing only on javascript and its frameworks. When you are about to finish and after graduation, Holly does an excellent job helping you land your first job as a Software Engineer.

There is a lot of demand for Software engineers in Chicago, and Fullstack helps you learn the tools that are in high demand. They help you walk through each step of job searching.

I secured a job within a month of finishing the program. I hig...

Going to Fullstack Academy was one of the best decisions I've made. I came into the program already having experience with web development, so I was looking for more structured support to take the next step in my career. Even though I had a background in it, I still learned an incredible amount during my time at Fullstack. The curriculum is designed to challenge everyone and help train you to "learn how to learn." While the program does teach some of the popular frameworks and libraries in the JavaScript ecosystem, I can confidently say that the skills I learned at Fullstack have helped me successfully pick up all sorts of new programming tools afterward. The instructors at Fullstack are extremely knowledgeable, and the entire staff is genuinely invested in students' success. I enjoyed ...

I graduated from the FSA Chicago immersive program in December 2018. Prior to the program, I worked as an analyst (lots of SQL), but I never went much beyond a CS 101 education during my undergraduate years. Though I knew that I wanted to be involved in more technical work that required more than my previous education, I wasn't ready to commit to a 2 year masters program. Fullstack served as a way for me to gain the skills needed to place me in the industry without the time commitment.

From day one of the program, I was very impressed with the organization and the quick pace at which we were diving into web development. Fullstack strikes a great balance between lecture and hands-on coding, something that really helped me to retain core concepts. Having touched on the more "academic" ...