Ironhack

De manière générale, c'était une super expérience. On peut dire qu'on ne s'est pas ennuyé. Parfois un peu largué et parfois dans la réussite. On se sent prêt désormais. Pour ma part j'ai pu prendre plus de plaisir sur le module 3 car j'avais plus de temps... Read More pour travailler sur les projets. Par contre la career hack je n'ai rien suivi du tout, aucune explication, j'ai du louper un épisode. J'aurais aimé participer même si je n'avais pas fini le stage 0. Surement un problème de communication.

The Web Development Bootcamp (Remote MAR21) was a great experience, that I recommend to everyone wishing to start a career in Tech. Our teachers were excellent and you have indefinite access to your student portal, including the zoom-lessons. Our teacher's... Read More learning methodology was superb and the projects we developed, are an excellent springboard for a career as a developer. Some useful tips for future students are: - Take time for your labs. Don't focus too much on completing them, but understanding what is going on and being playful with them, while trying to find different solutions. - SAVE EVERYTHING. Literally. Organise your bookmarks in folders, modules, topics, etc. and save them all. This will be incredibly helpful after the Bootcamp and even during it. Also, save the links to the lab solutions. This will be become relevant, when you start learning Hooks on ReactJS. - Take Screenshots. You will be thankful for saving some of the ''Mona Lisas'' (:D) of your teachers, specially after a long day of lessons. - Slack. Again, save everything useful. Extremely useful things will be shared there and the messages get automatically deleted after a certain amount of time. Technologies, e-books, websites, libraries, extra lessons, solutions and many, many memes. We actually got a PDF from one of our teachers, with the links and helpers for the whole Bootcamp afterwards. Nonetheless, save it for yourselves independently and download what you can. - Take Breaks and do Sports. Starting from the first project, it's highly possible, that you get a bit addicted with coding. Chill, this is not Bannerlord. - TRUST THE PROCESS. Literally.

An incredible experience despite the Covid, the full remote proved to be a really well organized format by the school and it did not impact our learning at all. The rhythm is very dense but it's worth it, you'll come out of it grown up and with a head... Read More full of new projects. Moreover, I am much more solicited since my graduation. The most difficult part of this experience is when it stops.

It was a great experience to learn a lot, especially as I came from a different background, I think it's good that Ironhack gives everyone the opportunity to do this training. Obviously it depends a lot on the student and their commitment, you have to... Read More be very determined to go for the goal . At the beginning, I found that the pedagogy was not adapted to adults in retraining because they are treated like young students... If I have one point to improve for IRONHACK it is to adapt the pedagogy and communication to all types of people, young and old, because it is not the same way of communicating. The stakes are higher for an adult (more sacrifices, family, job, going back to school etc) Other than that , I think it's a good and complete training !

It was an experience which was quite intense. However, they know it and you can really feel their support. The content of the course was fine the only thing which I find is a shame is that there wasn't any link with the prework. Sometimes they did go... Read More over some of the content we had to go through the prework during the class which is a bit of a waste as we could have more time on some other content if we didn't.

Dear Leadies and Gentelmen, I will share with you my terrible experience with Ironhack hoping that it will be useful to you and that you will not make the mistake I made. I also read a lot of reviews and saw very few negative ones, even ignoring them... Read More thinking that these were just exceptions, people who did not want to learn something new. But now I know they were people telling the truth. I don't want to offend anyone, I just see Ironhack as a service provider and I evaluate it as I see it. So let's begin! 1. The Teacher – Ignacio Soretas He can't speak English properly! He has a hard time understanding what we said, of course, I understand that English is not his mother language, but this is not just about pronunciation, it’s about the word combination he uses. He just lacks the ability to explain, to express himself correctly. Also, if you ask him a question, either verbal or written, he cannot understand what you are asking him, he cannot answer the question. It happened very often we asked him the same question in 1283091238901 different ways, just to understand what we are asking him and he again either says that he does not understand the questions or starts talking nonsense. Things that have nothing to do with the question. Example: Question: Hey Ignacio, how to clean this data? Answer: It’s very important to clean your data. OR I don't understand what you're asking ################################################################################################# It flows from topic to topic. Very often while talking about one topic he turns to another or goes back explaining some things he forgot to say, but we talked about them 2 hours ago and now he remembered to say them. Let me give you a similar example that will help us understand what I mean. Let's imagine that we have a task to cook a pizza. I guess most of the people reading this post know how to cook pizza and that's why I chose this example. Here's how Ignacio Soretas would explain how to cook a pizza. Example: Once you bought the dough from the store now roll it out and start making a pizza, then Michael Jackson was a very famous singer of the time, I forgot to tell you that he had no children, take the pizza out of the oven and eat. This was an example that contained words and objects that are close to our daily lives. It was easy to detect the catch, but now imagine he is talking about stuff you hear for the first time like data analysis, statistics etc... It’s impossible to understand what he means, but he left you with confusion with many questions. ################################################################################################# 2. Curriculum The simplest and most basic things we all need to know we’re not explained. Things like how to create a table (Data Frame) in Pandas (Python library used to operate with data). How to fill this table with information. How to change the values in the table and other basic stuff. The biggest downside is that they didn't teach us to THINK like a data analyst, they didn't teach us how to ask questions and how to check them, through the data, how to clean data, and many many more. ################################################################################################# Also, the exercises we had to do were not well structured and are not suitable for beginners. Task descriptions are very bad, it is difficult to understand what they want from us even for a person who is a native English speaker. Very often the exercises included tasks that were not adequate for everyday life. Things that have nothing to do with us. Difficult to assimilate and thus further complicate the understanding of the task. For example, things like some Pokemons and similar cartoon characters. We had the task to process a table with the characteristics of Pokemon and draw conclusions about them. Like ‘Who is the strongest Pokemon?’. As you can guess for people who have never seen this cartoon and have no idea about Pokemon, the difficulty of the task increases. Once because you do not understand what information the table contains and second because you do not understand how the code work, with which you are trying to process the table. It would be much better if the exercises contained things that are much closer to the problems in real life, things that we encounter every day, such as tables with information about food and so on. ################################################################################################# The lectures were nothing more than reading aloud, and there was nothing of added value. Not to mention that there were days when the lectures lasted about 4-5 hours from 9 to 14:00 in the afternoon and after such a long listening nothing remains in your head. The information should be conveyed in small steps and at small intervals, not a lot of information together. ################################################################################################# Often they said to us that if we had questions we should ask Google or our teammates and if we failed then we would ask for help from the assistant or the teacher. Well, this brings us automatically to the question if I have to ask my classmates or Google then why did I pay you more than 7K euros? ################################################################################################# SQL is the number 1 required skill to find a job as a data analyst, well we learn it only for one week… but spend 3 weeks in ML doing something that nobody understands, and nobody will hire us to make a model that we don’t understand how they work. Tableau is the number 2 required skill to find a job as a data analyst but we learn it only one day! ONLY ONE DAY, yes you read right ONLY ONE DAY! ################################################################################################# 3. Job support is even worst. I will tell you only that few months later I can’t find a job in the analytics field, and I will end there, hopefully, I helped you to understand what are the hidden costs of taking a Bootcamp at Ironhack. ################################################################################################# Of course, there are many more bullshits around them but yea, that’s enough for now. As a summary! STAY AWAY from IRONHACK! STAY AWAY from IRONHACK! Go to Udemy, Coursera, etc… and remember Data Analytics isn’t a sprint it’s a lifelong journey!

A lot of content that we keep, good teacher with a smile. An atmosphere and bonds between students that could have been more intense but the health crisis did not help. If I had to find a downside, some of the labs could use a little updating. Satisfied... Read More to have participated in this bootcamp, and the skills it gave me.

I am so glad that I got to join this bootcamp. The program itself is well structured. We got to not only practice with labs every session but also got to build our own project. It was an exciting journey of learning. I think that the only con would be... Read More the fact that internship is not required. I heard that the school is working on the legal process to make it happen. So, to be confirmed if you are interested in.

PROS - The staff (ALL) are amazing, they provide 100% support all throughout. - Exercises/labs were always challenging. - We appreciate the Friday beers and the importance of it (building camaraderie and all that). - Great campus. CONS - The modules in... Read More the portal may need to be updated or aligned with the teacher. - Although the group activities are wonderful, the timing could be better. - Weekly surveys should be done and submitted on a different day. Please avoid project presentation days (when we're all stressed out).

I don’t have a lot of cons , the only things is due to Covid’s we were all remote so it was difficult to establish real connection with your classmate but this is not the fault of the school ( and remote has other pro like time saving ) . This was really... Read More a rollercoaster ( but a good ones ), I appreciated that you learn by building project and you practice a lot it forces to progress faster . Would 100% recommend to everybody trying to get into coding