Fullstack Academy

I really enjoyed my time at Fullstack Academy. It gave me the skillset and confidence to land a dream job at a growing startup! Here are my pro’s and con’s of my time at Fullstack.

Pros:
• David and Nimit are both amazing teachers. Their teaching styles... Read More and backgrounds complement each other and provide diverse perspectives on the course material. They’ve known each other for years and have experience teaching together.
• The TA’s are all very smart and willing to help whenever you need them.
• The curriculum is well designed and logically progresses from foundations to theories to individual technologies to complete projects (which tie all prior topics together).
• Every single student in my cohort reached something called “escape velocity”, or the ability to quickly teach yourself new technologies as needed.

Cons:
• In my cohort we had one guest lecturer for a few days who was very knowledgeable but not a good teacher.
• Fullstack Academy is a newer school so their brand is limited, however those who have heard of it are usually very impressed.

Advice to Management:
• Be careful to maintain the integrity of the program as you grow: this’ll be hard but you can do it!
• Make sure that guest lecturers are knowledgeable and good teacher.

I just finished the immersive 13 week MEAN stack web development program at Fullstack Academy of Code. Fullstack was the most challenging and satisfying professional experience of my life. Seriously. It was harder than a master's program in econ and much... Read More more fulfilling than any job I've ever had. You not only tap into all you need to become a good coder, but also learn a ton about best practices and interviewing. I worked with very smart, motivated and creative classmates. And it's an awesome community - people help each other troubleshoot, share learning hacks and refer each other for jobs.

If you genuinely love to code, and are willing to put in the work, I recommend Fullstack highly. Here's why:

** Build real apps. During the final six weeks, I built and deployed three fullstack apps - with database, server code and an interactive front-end based on Angular.Js or jQuery.

** Learn a timely language. Unlike many immersives, Fullstack teaches fullstack JavaScript. This was a big selling point for me and I see a very strong market for JavaScript developers.

** Amazing staff. The founders and instructors are not only expert coders, but also professionals who have founded startups and led teams at Yahoo and Gilt Groupe

** High attention to job skills. Expect to get grilled on algorithmic whiteboard problems, to refactor your Github and to learn to pursue actionable leads on coding jobs.

Going through Fullstack was one of the most empowering and liberating experiences of my life—academic, professional, or otherwise. I’d never heard of a learning environment like this before, and I’d certainly never had the pleasure of being a part of... Read More one. My classmates, as diverse a group as any, were smart, capable, motivated, and most importantly generous—you’ll find no shortage of new friends eager to help you squash bugs when you (inevitably) run into them. By the time I left Fullstack, I felt like I’d fast-tracked my way into an elite professional network of ridiculously skilled developers. You will learn many of the latest and most in-demand web development technologies during the course of your 13 weeks with David, Nimit, and the rest of Fullstack’s warm and highly capable staff.

I graduated Fullstack confident in my abilities as a software developer. Within four weeks, I accepted a competitive front-end position at a startup here in New York, and I couldn’t be happier.

Deciding whether a bootcamp is right for you is obviously an important choice—for one thing, they’re not cheap. But my final bit of wisdom is that you should pick your bootcamp (should you decide to attend one) based not on the technologies you’ll be learning, but instead on the quality of the instructors and your fellow students. There’s nowhere I would have rather enrolled than Fullstack.

Having attended Fullstack's second cohort, 5 months later I couldn't be happier with my decision. Fullstack provided me with all the tools and experience I needed to change fields and quickly find a job that I love. The amount I was able to learn at Fullstack... Read More in such a short amount of time is incomparable to any other experience I've ever had and is infinitely more valuable than my master's degree. Going from a very limited exposure of computer science to winning a hackathon within the first few weeks is something I had never dreamed of as possible.

As long as you willing to put in the work David, Nimit and the rest of the staff at Fullstack will do everything in there power to help you succeed. Fullstack provided me with the groundwork to easily pick up any new language or framework that I encounter with relative ease and adapt to the evolving need of my job. Even now staying in contact with them I know they will continue to be a valuable resource for me should I ever need anything.

I was in the Fullstack Spring 2014 class and it was the best decision I've ever made in my life. Web development has always been something that has interested me, so I decided to quit my job to go to a bootcamp. I applied to quite a few bootcamps but... Read More during my interview when I spoke with Nimit for the first time (one of the co-founders/lead instructors) I knew that Fullstack Academy was the one for me. When class started, I met David (the other co-founder/lead instructor) and immediately knew I made the right decision. You can't find better instructors when it comes to learning development because these two know their shit. Not only are they great teachers with reputable Software Engineer resumes, but they are great guys that you end up becoming good friends with. I highly recommend Fullstack Academy to anyone considering a bootcamp.

Attending Fullstack was definitely a life-changing experience. Just one month after graduating, I was able to secure a seat on a rocket ship. I basically have my dream job.

Pros:
- YC backed. 2Legit.
- Fullstack JavaScript definitely helps you stand out... Read More amongst the sea of other bootcamp graduates/junior developers.
- David and Nimit are amazing teachers. They each bring years and years of experience as engineers, technical leads, and entrepreneurs. They are, collectively, an infinite well of knowledge.

Cons:
- Job support was a bit lacking. The companies that attended Hiring Day didn't seem to be very well vetted (a lot of one person companies and wantrepreneurs looking to take advantage of engineers).
- Not as well known as the other bootcamps (yet).