Hack Reactor
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About Hack Reactor
Founded in 2012, Hack Reactor is a 12-week immersive coding school providing software engineering education, career placement services, and a lifelong network of professional peers. Hack Reactor has campuses in San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles, and... Read More
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Job Outcomes
Employment Breakdown |
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| Employed in Paid in-field positions | 77% |
|---|---|
| Full-Time Employee | 68% |
| Full-Time Apprenticeship, Internship or Contact Position | 8% |
| Hired by school in-field | 6% |
| Employed in other positions | 2% |
| Started a new company or venture after graduation | 1% |
| Short-term contract or part-time position | 0% |
| Not Employed | 18% |
| Unemployed and still seeking a job | 18% |
| Unemployed and not seeking a job | 4% |
| Non-reporting | 1% |
This bootcamp uses the CIRR methodology. All CIRR members use a standardized, one-page format. To ensure complete accuracy, CIRR reports account for each enrolled student. You can compare outcomes with other CIRR members side-by-side. Learn more about CIRR.
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Average Ratings (All Programs)
4.77/5
- Kevin M
- Graduated: 2013
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I attended Hack Reactor from August through October 2013, and it was the most useful educational experience I've ever had. I don't say that lightly, as I've attended two highly ranked universities.
Hack Reactor's value stems from both the sheer amount... Read More
The precourse work is intense and ramps you up to a speed at which you could probably go ahead an get hired as a junior developer (!!!). You learn the basics of the distributed git workflow, reimplement the wildly popular Underscore.js library, build a twitter clone, and master recursion in a way that makes you familiar with the DOM.
The structured learning phase lasts for the first five weeks of Hack Reactor. You're implementing JavaScript inheritance patterns and data structures by the end of the first week. The four weeks after that are a marathon run through jQuery, a couple of different frameworks, algorithmic thinking, and complexity analysis.
After that, there's an individual project phase - at this point, you're turned loose to work on a personal passion project (which they must approve). There are also paid client projects available for those who want them. This is a great time for people to work out kinks and learn how to hack on their own.
Once you've had this experience, students form groups and unleash their combined brain power on creating apps. Some really impressive stuff has come out of this, e.g. http://redditInsight.com.
After that is the hiring phase. Hack Reactor hosts a hiring day at the start of the 11th week of the program and then provides interview support until, well, everyone gets a job... which doesn't usually take very long! Most people in my class got multiple six-figure offers. Interestingly, a massive amount of learning seems to take place during those two weeks, too, as people all go nuts solving ridiculous toy problems that interviewers threw in front of them together.
I'm giving Hack Reactor 5 stars. The 3 months I spent there have launched me into a more productive, high-paying, and satisfying job than I could have ever gotten otherwise.
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Comment- Ruan Pethiyagoda
- Data Science
- Graduated: 2013
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I went through the Hack Reactor program, and counter to their excellent advice on how to manage a job search, I accepted an offer to work there before the founder could even complete his sentence, and without even having gone into compensation. Getting... Read More
It was such a captivating environment that I was irate at having to go home at night. I went from having next to zero software background (minus dabbling with CodeSchool etc) to writing scaled distributed computing networks that got their fair share of attention, all thanks to the people in the room, be it my peers or the instructors, very senior engineers, and solid operators who know what they are doing.
CommentHack Reactor's average rating is 4.77 out of 5.0 based on 252 review(s).
