Lighthouse Labs

General Experience:
Coming into bootcamp, I was 100% ready to work hard. There has not been a single day where I have been bored, everyday we learned something new and we put it into practice. By week 3 I felt confident that I could easily build a simple app on my own. You really get what you put into it.

Mentorship:
All my mentors have been great, their knowledge and experience are very admirable. We have a pretty small cohort (4 people) so there has always been plenty of mentorship to go around for us, but there has been times in the beginning where I find myself waiting for a mentor. What I started doing, which helped a lot, is even though I have not run into problems I would sit behind a mentor and another student when they are troubleshooting so that I know how to handle that...

A great experience! The staff at Lighthouse Montreal are kind, generous, and always willing to help. They often staying past sheduled hours to assist the students, and constantly supportive of all our endevours. They strive to make the bootcamp a wonderful experience, taking note of student comments and concerns, and responding to any situation that a student may have a problem with. An excellent culture/enviroment has been developed by the staff.

They work constantly to find employer and oppurtunites in their career services, always trying to find what will fit for their students and the respective skills they have been taught. Allowing their students to network with all of the Lighthouse contacts and connect with companies interested in hiring junior developers. They do everything ...

I took a lighthouse labs Bootcamp last year.

I was excited at first because I wanted to change my career. I took another part-time course with them first to try out their classes and then decided to do the bootcamp.

In the interview, they suggested that I had a good chance of getting a job.

I really liked the fact that they advertised a “7:1 mentor ratio” and "96% of graduates hired" (the highest in Vancouver).

However, then I took the course and the mentor ratio was usually higher than 7:1. Most of the time, I had to wait hours for mentors to come and help me.

The fact they said that 96% of graduates hired was misleading to me. After many months of looking for a job, I couldn’t find a job and some of my ex-classmates had to complain to the school too. I decided to mak...

Pros - You get a basic understanding of web development.
Cons - If you need assistance you are left waiting for long periods of time to get help.
After realizing this I decided to opt out of the program before I would lose all of my tuition, on the contract you are required to sign stated you will see a 50% refund within a month.
After two months of waiting, nothing came. I had to call them many times which was very frustrating.
I just felt they were very unorganized, and the cost is a lot to obtain an entry level job.

I had a wonderful time at Lighthouse Labs taking into to front-end and JavaScript. I liked the way two of ours instructors thought us, the used pre-made project and show us how to develop it better using new material from each class. So that we can actually see how the web-site will look like. Two of the projects that we completed were amazing, I could never imagine that I could 2 websites by myself. I am currently taking internship in start up tech company as an app and web-developer, and I can’t describe my happiness how lighthouse helped me that job. I want to thank everyone in lighthouse and will be back soon to take another program.

right from the application process and options to get funding for bootcamp, the stuff was super helpful. The experience itself, you could tell that someone put thought into making student experience exceptional. My reason for picking LHL over other local bootcamps was the richness of the full-stack curriculum. I found touching the many different things as a very helpful intro to what you need to have a grasp on to be a successful dev. Over and above the content itself, I learnt to not be afraid to learn on my own, which I believe is a crucial skill for any good dev. I would recommend this exceptional place any day.

I was probably a bit lucky as well to be offered an internship with their internal software dev team after graduation. so my learning experience went beyond the normal boo...

The pros include fairly good job support and constant access to excellent instructors. The cons are limited to the high cost.

Amazing program. Teachers were very knowledgeable and very helpful. Even now after being finished the program my teachers are still happy to help me with my work and personal projects.

I really enjoyed taking Lighouse Labs. Although the 8 week program was very demanding and intensive, the amount of experience and information I learned would have been near impossible to achieve had I been on my own. I transitioned from an amateur programmer to a skilled junior full stack developer in two months.

I attended lighthouse in February 2016 and found it to be a great experience. I learned more than I could have imagined and came out of the program with a career that I love. The instructors, mentors, and entire community were all great. The amount you get out of the program is definitely proportional to what you put in!

When I enrolled in the program, it was 8 weeks long. I completed the prep course (the quality of the prep course was one of the reasons I chose LHL over the competition), and felt somewhat comfortable. My advice, go back and practice any areas that you found challenging. I came from a non-programming career and it was a totally different way of learning/thinking. I wish that I had asked to rollover at the 4 week mark, I was struggling to get each project completed, but just managed to finish by weeks' end with help from mentors and classmates. The new term of 10 weeks is more appropriate in my opinion, though it truly depends on the student, some of my classmates were flying through the projects and I swear were yawning at times. It may sound a bit extreme but there should be more separ...

The curriculum for our cohort was half Ruby, half JavaScript. It was fairly good to fill in my knowledge gap of how websites/ web applications got build from thr front to back end perspective. I can't speak for their new curriculum in only JavaScript though.

My peers are smart, have good work ethics and generally decent to work with. There are really good TAs, lecturers who explain things well.

Besides resume reviews, mock interviews, and demo day, there was not much job support after graduation. I got my job after a seriers of internships and freelancing that got nothing to do with LHL.

I've been wanting to change career and do something fun which led me to become interested in a coding bootcamp. The entire admission process was great and they provide you with the fundamentals that you need to learn on your own before Day 1. The curriculum is extremely fast pace but at the end of the bootcamp, you will have sufficient knowledge to land a job as an intern/junior developer. At times, the course work is very overwhelming but if you can survive 10 weeks of intense curriculum, you will be ready to interview with some of the employers that Lighthouse sets you up with. A month after I graduated, I was able to land a job that was referred by the staff at Lighthouse. If you are serious about getting into coding as a career as soon as possible, this is the right place for you.

Pros:
- very supportive mentors
- community was great
- lots of events for networking
- career services was great

Cons:
- Curriculum is too short
- Computer Science curriculum did not prepare enough for interviews
- there should be mentors available for larger cohorts

You learn a lot in 10 weeks! The mentors and instructors are knowledgeable and helpful. It’s great that they’re there until 9pm everyday.
One thing to keep in mind is that it is quite fast paced, which makes sense since it is only 10 weeks.
Only issue I had is that a couple of the assignment instructions were worded in a confusing way. Other that that it seemed to be a worthwhile experience!

The pros are it helped land me my iOS position and career. The cons are its too much knowledge for an 8-week boot camp course.

Simply put, the Wed Dev Bootcamp I attended at Lighthouse Labs Toronto was exactly what I was looking for, exactly what I'd been lead to expect through reviews, interactions with them, and the admissions process, and one of the best decisions I've ever made! If you're serious about learning to be a developer and want to be a part of an awesome community, then you can't go wrong by attending Lighthouse Labs!

I spent a lot of time comparing the various organizations offering Web Developer Bootcamps in Toronto - even geeking out and creating a big spreadsheet weighing the pros and cons of each - and Lighthouse came out as the clear front-runner. Not long after that I was signed up, deposit paid, and giving my notice at my job.

My time at Lighthouse was great. The environment was c...

By far the most valuable part part of Lighthouse is the community mentors that are available at all times to help you through the course material and with any other questions you may have. Without getting to long winded the best advice/warning I can give is that this course rewards hard work. Say goodbye to your friends and your partner for the next 8 weeks because if you're not putting in your all you will be disappointed.

I had a great time learning different web technologies at lighthouse labs and working hands-on on the project work. It would be great if they also include algorithm design and PHP, c# in their curriculum.

I decided to do Lighthouse Labs' Web Development bootcamp after realizing I didn't want to work in the field that I had just graduated university from. The whole experience was great - I have nothing negative to say. I really loved how it was fast paced and practise-based. It was definitely an intense course (they don't exaggerate), but I learned so much, made some really good friends, and most importantly I got a whole new career that I love out of it. I would recommend doing the in-person course if possible (vs. satellite) only because you'd get to interact with the instructors more. In the satellite location, I could still message/video chat with them, but it'd be so much easier in person.