Green Fox Academy

The course focus both on hard and soft skills and despite my expectations I found the soft skills part very usefull. The hard skills part is very well structured from the basics to programming in a team. The teachers were very helpfull and able to answer... Read More our questions in fact anytime no matter the lesson is over for that day. But be prepared that it is very time consuming I spent about 10 hours a day studying. On the other hand if you like it, it will be pleasure to spend your time this way. And I have met really a lot of amazing people and it was pleasure and national holiday for me to cooperate with them. I enjoyed the course.

I started the full-time course in March 2020 and successfully graduated in July 2020. There were three parts. Foundation phase, where we learned the foundations of programming, then orientation phase focused on web application development and then project... Read More phase where we put our gained skills to a test when we worked on a larger project in small teams (5-6 people). I was surprised how broad the topics we learned were. Not only did we learn the core language and some frameworks, but also databases, version control (git), team work (agile - scrum), some basic dev-ops (we deployed our code on a live server), ... you name it. Also throughout the course, we had several soft-skills trainings, which helped us to hone our presentation skills and helped us to deal with anxiety and stage-fright better.
The team at Green Fox Academy is really friendly and helpful, and when you aproach them, they will go out of heir way to help you solve your problem. The mentors were very knowledgable, helpful and friendly as well.
Overall the course was great. Not perfect, but what is :)
9/10

I am pretty sure that five years ago, this was a great course. The founders identified a real demand in the market for developers, and a small group of dedicated, experienced people did create a great course to help talented individuals with no previous... Read More background in coding kickstart their career as developers.
But then they decided, that they need to grow. And as the organization grew, they were unable to maintain the high standards they had for the recruitment of both of their own stuff, and potential students as well. The fact that new players emerged on the market made it even more difficult for them.
As of now, the only department that is still doing their job as well, as in the begining is marketing. Which is double whammy, because it means that they can reach and communicate their message and promises very well, and to many people, but then are unable to deliver on them. The mentors are in general vastly underqualified, some of them never even had any real-life job, only completed the same junior developer course we did (And I advise you not to).
Of course it is not a surprise that they stayed at Green Fox as a mentor, because the biggest Achilles heel (or rather and Achilles leg..) of the whole course is job support and placement at partner companies.The number of partner companies they claim to have at any pre-course event is immeasurably higher, than those who are there to hire, or even consider hiring people. Most of the opportunities are not developer jobs, and even from these few developer positions, a great deal is actually requiring a different technology then what was used during the course. Do not misunderstand me, I am not against learning new tools and languages. But situations like this even more emphasize, that Green Fox is not monitoring the changes in demand on the market correctly. If they only have a few partners, why dont they cover their specific needs better? They could probably attract more companies, if they did.

To sum up; The surroundings are great, the people are cool and friendly and helpful, the dogs are nice. The only thing missing is the actual product you paid almost 4000 € for – the junior developer course provided and managed by experts that will get you a job. If only they dared to stay small (no need to have multiple classes, when you do not have enough proper mentors) and reacted to the changing circumstances better, this could still be a course I would gladly recommend to anyone. But they did not, so I can not.

What I consider important to say about this course at the begin is that it was not exactly what I expected. It was much more demanding - and in general not only this course, but also the subsequent development in the IT field is extremely demanding on... Read More self-discipline. And even though I expected the course to be challenging, I probably didn't expect such demands to be placed on me. Sometimes it was a struggle with the Green Fox system, which was in some situations really fossilized. At the same time, it is necessary to realize that once a person completes this course, they compete in the labor market with students of IT fields, which was very difficult for me to imagine (as a person who studied a field very distant to IT). But after completing the course, it became reality.

The course offers learning exactly with the technology that is actually used in IT on a daily basis, which is without a doubt the biggest advantage of the course. The next biggest advantage for me was the development of my own personality, my personal growth and learning to work with myself even in highly stressful situations.

From zero to hired as junior developer. Got job literally 4 days after my after my final exam. Sure there is room for improvement...but it is everywhere right?
Prepare in advance, study hard, don't act like A-hole, most importantly don't sh*t yourself... Read More and you will do great.

Back in 2017 I'm quite sure it was a great course, maybe even in 2018, but nowadays the company has grown tremendously with the same mindset and it couldn't follow the changes in the industry.
The first 2 modules are quite OK, you can really learn a lot... Read More throughout these modules, especially if you have a senior developer as a mentor (specialized in this technology, sometimes sadly not). It gives you a quite good understanding with the basics, and with a framework. Yes, the lectures consist mostly random youtube videos, but I guess many times in life you have to watch those as well.
Project phase is also very dependent on the mentor, you can get Junior Software Developer as a mentor, and you are basically left to your own devices as he can barely help you, or you get a quite good mentor and you still learn a lot. Very luck dependent.

As for the worst part: JOB FINDING (are they even looking?)
Sales doesn't or barely communicates about the job finding events (hackathon, tech-talent speed date, etc.) or about jobs overall. They promise that a lot of companies are interested, but somehow only 4-7 relevant companies do come. This is for 35+ students, so you can imagine how many people will actually get developer jobs by the end of 3 months (which is actually a lot of time without pay)... They promote (a lot) of sales-tech kind of jobs, which is basically useless, and for actual developer jobs it's quite obvious that most tech companies are either not interested, or the price is just not worth it for them. As of 1 month after graduation, about 1 or 2 people got jobs (not developer) and maybe 2-3 was called in for interviews.

I am absolutely satisfied with the whole course. I recommend it to everyone who thinks about learning programming and getting a job as quickly as possible.

-I learnt everything I needed
-I received support and encouragment from mentors
-I was assisted throughout... Read More the whole "getting a job" proccess
-Greenfox will actually care about you and your well being

Green Fox is a bunch of amateurs with no working or teaching experience. Everything they provide is premisses for you to come to, free wifi, links to youtube videos and no comprehensive help at all. Their promise to find a job for you at the end of the... Read More course is rubbish - it doesn't materialise and even if it does - you will work for peanuts. Save your money and find an online course or a better bootcamp elsewhere.

Extremely helpful mentors, psychologist and everybody else is very kind at GFA. They did everything what they promised. You should expect that the course is very hard. You don't even have time for your friends or family. But it is worth it. After the... Read More course you have enough knowledge in programming to get a job easily.

I attended Green Fox Academy in the summer of 2017, and I've been working as a Software Developer ever since (2 years at current date).
I got exactly what I expected from the course. I received help in learning a new skill-set that I can turn into a career.... Read More During the course I felt like everyone got as much from the course, as much energy they put into it. I gave it 100% and I was satisfied with the result. I immediately fount a job as a junior full stack developer, and I'm still working at that same company.
Sometimes people complained that the mentors leave us alone for too much time, that may be true and I partially agree, but as an optimist I always looked at it as an opportunity to figure out stuff for myself. You will be forced to figure out things without help as a software engineer in real life as well.