Northcoders

I completed this course over the summer of 2018 as I was unhappy in my career choice and wanted to try something new. Northcoders provided a comprehensive course with practically round-the-clock support. They helped me not just to get a job, but to get... Read More the right job for me, which I'm now extremely happy with. The atmosphere is friendly and welcome to all skill and experience levels. I honestly could not recommend it enough for anyone wanted to start out in a career in coding. Plus, you get to live in Manchester for three months! Total win.

Having a great time at Northcoders - everybody, students and tutors are all lovely and helpful - and there's a great, productive atmosphere. There's plenty of socials so you can get to know everyone. The curriculum is pretty up-to-date as far as I'm aware,... Read More and they're always updating it. Work comes in two-day sprints, where you're randomly paired with another person from your cohort and complete small projects to learn new tech on-the-job. The amount of knowledge I've gained over the past months is incredible, I'd never have been able to get to this point by myself without the direction of the programme and support from tutors and peers. My only criticism (if you can call it that) is because of the curriculum changes so fast, every so often a cohort is the first to do something, and so they're effectively 'guineapigs' for new sprints, so not everything goes to plan - they haven't yet worked out exactly where students usually trip up or get a bit confused. But I haven't yet come across a sprint that by the end of it, I haven't learned anything. Really recommend this programme.

From day 1 at Northcoders I felt challenged and yet in safe hands. The tutors gave me the confidence to believe in my own abilities offering support whenever required. At Northcoders the syllabus is always changing to keep with the demand of skills from... Read More hiring partners. They also strive for feedback from the students to find what works and what can be improved. Joining Northcoders is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Truly amazing journey so far! The support from both tutors and fellow students is great! You all accept that you have chosen to do the course to further your skills as a developer so everyone tries there best to help each other. It took a little while... Read More to get used to learning again as I haven’t been in education for 6 years but what I have learned in 2 months is amazing! The lecture contents are great and the material is great too! Hopefully I will be working as a developer in 2 months! Thank you Northcoders.

I spent a fantastic and intensive 3 months last year learning more than I ever did over the three years of my degree. I'd messed around with JavaScript a bit before but on Day 1 I was learning more and after each week, I couldn't believe how much I had... Read More improved. The teaching is excellent and the community is fantastic but my favourite thing about it is the curriculum design, which is really focused on what underpins good coding, not just the modern frameworks which are also covered. I was happily placed in a job with a decent salary and have already built up on that. They publish their placement data unlike a lot of bootcamps and as they have grown, the percentages have roughly held up (still well over 90% placed) and even quicker now than when I did the course. So if you are looking for a bootcamp in the UK don't feel you have to be in London - there's a thriving tech scene up in the north too.

I was a bit dubious at first - nobody seemed to have a bad word to say on the whole internet (except the bloke below - but you know, the clue is in the name..!) Because of that I went in to meet the team before I applied and it immediately changed my... Read More mind - you can just feel the buzz and scale of the place even when you walk inside the door. The team were beyond friendly and it is composed of good-hearted, ethical people who are trying to do good and help people. Fair play to them.

A friend of mine went to a competitor bootcamp and wound up saying she wished she'd not gone there because they seemed like they were just playing at it and copy-catting everything Northcoders said but didn't deliver the goods. They literally took her money online with no application process what soever so watch out for that. Not all bootcamps are created equal, they say... It's simply true, it seems..!

In terms of the experience it was extraordinary from start to finish and I found work in under 2 weeks. I really, really like my new job and am incredibly grateful to the team at Northcoders for making the match.

I guess my advice would be, watch out for bootcamps trying to copy success and don't be taken in by their cheaper prices or copy cat tactics. Didn't pay off for my friend... I believe Northcoders was worth every single penny three times over and would pay it again every time. Cheers guys.

The best part of the course is the group mentality - you spend 3 months with the same small group and help each other though but as one of the earlier cohorts it was still developing and growing as a course so there were flaws. It was a huge financial... Read More gamble and while levels of learning in a short time are very high the promises of being at a level to be hired and help finding work weren't met. Seems to have a good record of placing people in Manchester jobs but nowhere else.

- A sleek, well-designed curriculum with the introduction of the modular Developer Pathway.
- Great in-person technical support model with a helpdesk during sprints.
- Pastoral care taken very seriously
- No big egos
- Regular contact with industry hiring... Read More partners

18 months ago, I knew nothing about code. 15 months ago, I started the Northcoders bootcamp. 2 months ago, I started my second working at one of the best tech companies in the UK. If that doesn't inspire you I don't know what will! Northcoders is genuinely... Read More a fantastic place to learn and kickstart your career in tech. You'll learn the most cutting-edge tools and be in a better position than most Computer Science graduates by the time the 12 weeks are up. If you're on the fence about doing it, hop off the fence and do it! :)

The pros are you have tutors experienced in all the latest tec, constantly helping and assisting you if you’re stuck or need a bit of guidance.
I knew nothing about code but 2 weeks in I’d built a Node JS console Pokemon game. Fast forward another 2 weeks... Read More id set up a local server with API routes to Post and GET data using a SQL data base. Fast forward another week I’m hosting a site on heroku which allows users to look up a twitter handle and get their tweets, it then sends those to another third party API which reads all of these tweets and outputs what sort of person they are eg. Are they joyful, scared, upset or angry? This was 5 weeks into the boot camp after having no prior experience. I would recommend a boot camp to anyone as it changes your life completely regardless of experience if you have he attitude for it you’ll learn so much so quickly. Also he career support that’s given to its students is incredible there are always hiring partners coming in and speaking to students showcase their businesses, the boot camp will organise interviews with these company’s and a lot of students that finished the course gained Work within 10 days of leaving the course which is amazing!

The cons are that they can be quite expensive and it’s a big life decision to join a boot camp. However I believe that it’s worth every penny.