About Hack Reactor
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Founded in 2012, Hack Reactor provides immersive software engineering education, career services, and a large network of professional peers. To date, the school has more than 7,000 graduates who’ve been hired by more than 2,500 companies around the world.... Read More
Hack Reactor coding bootcamps are challenging, life-changing, and designed to fit your schedule and skill level. They train students using a computer science and coding curriculum that models the exciting work being done in the software engineering industry. No matter which program you choose, the outcome will be the same. You’ll graduate as an autonomous, full-stack software engineer, fully capable of tackling unique problems and building complex applications on the job.
Led by passionate and experienced instructors, engineers, and career advisors, Hack Reactor graduates become job-ready software engineers that companies want to hire.
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Courses
12-Week Software Engineering Immersive (Full-Time)
19-Week Software Engineering Online Immersive with JavaScript and Python (Full-Time)
36-Week Software Engineering Immersive (Part-Time)
Software Engineering Premium Prep
Hack Reactor Reviews
Average Ratings (All Programs)
Anonymous
6/17/2016
Course
Software Engineering Immersive
"Confessions of a $20K bootcamp graduate. (Hack Reactor)"
A quick reminder: Hack Reactor was created in late 2012 by DevBootcamp grads.
In this article I’ll review the curriculum of the bootcamp and the reality graduates are facing.
The curriculum.
~45 per class 90 per floor. 180 at any given time. The “Elite”... Read More
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Anonymous
9/1/2015
Course
Software Engineering Immersive
"The best financial decision I ever made"
I was originally hesitant to attend the bootcamp, especially with the price tag. I had enough saved up to attend the bootcamp but I was worried about affording to live in San Francisco. Luckily, I took the leap (and I'm 100% sure I made the right choice!).... Read More
I paid off the tuition with my savings and I crowdfunded a loan using WeFinance.co for my living expenses. Best (and toughest) 3 months of my life.
The people there were great, I learned a lot, and they have an AMAZING network. When people refer to it as the "Harvard of coding bootcamps" it's not an understatement. People who attend basically have their choice of jobs.
If you're on the fence, make the jump.
Kevin M
Graduated: 201312/16/2013
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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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Ruan Pethiyagoda
Graduated: 201310/20/2013
Course
Data Science
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.