General Assembly

General Assembly's Product Management course gave me all the confidence and tools I needed to start my new PM role! Not only that, but it created a community of like-minded individuals that I will stay connected with throughout my career. I am so thankful... Read More for General Assembly!

It’s an amazing program! Just like anything in life you get what you put into it. They have so many resources to help you gain the knowledge and confidence you need to find your starting job as a software engineer. You’ll learn how to code, build websites,... Read More create front end and back end applications, solve algorithms, learn data structures, learn how to interview and most important learn how to network to make the job search process seamless. Highly recommend for somebody making a career change!

I just finished my UX Design Immersive Remote course with General Assembly. Before pivoting into UX design, I worked in product and service base sales roles. I felt unfulfilled in my career and sought a more creative and innovative career path. I created... Read More a website and graphics for my podcast but did not have formal design experience. A friend mentioned UX design, and from there, I began researching and realized my previous experience, empathizing with and understanding customer needs, aligned with the purpose of UX design. I researched several boot camps and had interviews with a few, including Brainstation, Flatiron School, Springboard, and The UX/UI Bootcamp at UT. I was looking for a program that offered full-time remote learning with an option to take a loan until the end of the course. After completing my research, I decided General Assembly was the best choice. Since joining General Assembly, I have gained a deep understanding of UX design principles, proficiency in Figma, and a range of user experience processes and solutions. The knowledge I gained from my instructors throughout this 12-week course is incomparable to any other course I could have taken. They fostered an environment that inspired me to learn and participate every day, which helped me to gain confidence in the knowledge and skills I have obtained. My overall experience has been amazing, and I would recommend General Assembly to anyone interested.

General Assembly Bootcamp has played a role as a bridge for me to jump into the new career path. It gives a reasonable 12-week software engineer course, mainly focused on web development based on Javascript and popular web frameworks such as React. It... Read More has a strong community where students can gain essential programming knowledge from peers and instructors. In addition, its certificate assists students to apply for a job, where most people have not had opportunities to try without any prior experience or knowledge. Since this course is only 12-week course while there are diverse skills to acquire and depth into mastering those, students may face difficulties to absorb all the knowledge taught during course right away. As long as students devote themselves to learning and putting extra effort besides class hours, they will be able to have great opportunities to enter the IT career.

General Assembly's full-stack software engineering immersive gave me the hard and soft skills and tools needed to land my first job in the industry. The job assistance offered with GA was fabulous and helped me to feel confident in my job search. Must... Read More accept that the road ahead is hard and you must have grit to keep it up. But, I am in a much better place than I was because of GA.

I took a Data Analytics remote class with General Assembly in Fall 2022. I knew a handful of Excel tricks but had no experience in SQL or Tableau. The course was thorough, my instructor was highly knowledgable and available, and the student success team... Read More at GA helped ensure that I could make the requirements of the class work with my heavy schedule at my day job. I left feeling confident that I could apply SQL and Tableau into my daily tasks. One of the teaching assistants had even taken the class before and used it to pivot into a new career in data analytics. I can't recommend GA enough.

Instructors are patient abd passionate about Teaching. Extra time is given after each class to enable students have personal contactors with instructors. You get a better understanding and confidence after training. I have gained more insight after my... Read More training with General Assembly.

Pros - great sales pitch Cons - weak curriculum and no job support afterwards. I was told they'd help you find a job in the discipline of the course you took. They don't. They set me up with some 3rd party who didn't know anything about the partnership.... Read More When I called GA on it they said they don't actually help with jobs for that course. Really wish I'd have known that 6 months prior so I could have gone with Career Foundry instead.

This course was good in that it covered basic concepts and got you coding and building apps in a quick timeframe. As the term bootcamp implies, this is a very fast-paced crash course on key concepts and gets you building quickly, which is an important... Read More part of developing coding skills. That said, this course leaves a lot to be desired for the price. I took this course remotely and there are limitations to that. We had two great, very knowledgeable lead instructors but also had students in the cohort that constantly asked questions that derailed instruction for the rest of the class. Instructors were clearly stretched thin by the large size of our class and my understanding is that GA intends to continue growing class sizes even more. Toward the end, morale was pretty low and not much was done to improve it. Time is the biggest limiting factor with this course. In my opinion, not enough time was spent on computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms, and big O notation, all of which are crucial for interviews. Finally, the Outcomes career coaching support was not helpful for me. I have a few years of professional experience and have worked with recruiters before. My career coach was younger than me and offered little in the way of new information to help me in the job search. Furthermore, I was clear about my expectations to relocate out of the US after the course and requested help connecting with GA schools in my new country for networking. I was never put in touch with anyone. Additionally, I never received GA Alumni newsletters and after requesting twice for that to be fixed, I still do not receive those today. One reason I chose GA was for its continued networking and alumni career support, but at this point the support is nonexistent. For $16,000, this course is far too expensive. General Assembly's problem is that it is a for-profit school trying to expand and maximize profits while the quality of instruction suffers. I would recommend those interested to look into Leon Noel's online boot camp which is identical in structure and concepts covered and is completely free.

We have excellent instructors that are not only good at deliverying the curriculum but also had deep experience in the relevant industries. They are very supporting and provide great encouragement to the students. The curriculum is just right for th amount... Read More of time that we need to spend and sufficiently prepare students for thier next delopvement and growth.