Springboard

Overall, I think the course is well-structured to help students with different backgrounds to learn new skills in data analytics. Even though it's designed to be a 6-month program, for students with relevant experience, they can speed up their learning... Read More and complete the course within 3-4 months as it's self-paced. I was able to complete the course in 3 months, as the mentors and student advisors were very responsive whenever you have questions (they have many mentors available besides the 1:1 mentor assigned to you). The career service from Springboard is overall very effective as well since most of the career coaches are professional technical recruiters and have been in the field for many years - I've worked with 3 career coaches, they are all very strategic in terms of resume writing and interview preparation. I was able to receive 2-3 times more interview invitations since I joined the program. The 1:1 mentorship is definitely the primary value of the program. My mentor was very supportive and knowledgeable - provide me lots of actionable feedback and advice. He really guided me down a career path that led me to an offer. I am overall satisfied with this investment.

I had done a lot of research on various boot camps and courses, both college and online, and had come to the conclusion that for the money/time investment, Springboard was my best bet. I also liked that there was a focus on supporting you as you looked... Read More for work. After being accepted into the UX Design Career Track program, my first month or two were pretty easy. I had already taken a few UX courses, so the early parts felt like a refresher, and I felt like I was just getting deeper into the details - which I liked. Then came the middle part of the course. The curriculum is thorough and rigorous, and I felt overwhelmed at times with the amount of work that had to be done in the time period. Obviously doing this all during a pandemic and upheaval of 2020 wasn't easy, but Springboard was excellent about flexibility. I ended up taking a 3 week pause. 1 week off, and 2 weeks to catch up. My 6 months class ended up being more like 8 months, including the internship, which was extremely valuable. Overall, I feel extremely prepared for the job I have now, and I love that I still have access to my curriculum in case I need to remember something. The best part of the course is the mentorship. My mentor gave me such valuable feedback, and really put the entire process in perspective for me. I am very glad I chose Springboard, especially since they don't just rubber stamp your work to get you out the door. Highly recommend this program.

I am so thankful for my time at Springboard! The course is well laid out and designed to prepare students for a design role. I felt as though the projects contributed to my understanding of Sketch and made me more confident in my abilities to use new... Read More programs for design. By far, the best part of the course was my mentor. I struggled initially due to some personal issues, and he inspired and encouraged me to continue with the course, even when I fell behind. With his support and the support of Springboard's career coaches, I graduated this past month. (With a completed resume and portfolio website to boot!) To any future Springboard students reading this: Know that there is a lot of reading in the first few units that may make you feel overwhelmed. You'll make it through! Take a breath, and even if you fall behind, you will have all the resources to succeed. Good luck!!

I loved taking the Springboard course for Data Analytics. It allowed me to work on my own schedule and go at my own pace. I was able to continue working while taking the course and set myself up to finish in the six month timeline. I would recommend this... Read More course to anyone who has an interest in learning about Data Analytics for a career.

I was reluctant to join a bootcamp from the beginning. Would an online experience truly provide me with the skills that I needed to become and industry professional. After completing the course I can confidently say that you get out of the course what... Read More you put in. For prospective students, the value of this course is not in the certificate you receive at the end, but the portfolio you build out. Many of the learning materials could be found for free online, however the community, mentorship and portfolio guidance are where Springboard excels.

The mentor in this program made the difference for me. The curriculum was thoughtful and the career support was helpful. Some of the career support resources and role playing could be improved. It would have been nice to have been given a timed mock data... Read More challenge to complete for real world practice.

I started the course at the end of June 2020. The beginning of the course was great (the content in each of the units and the way they were built). But then in the Economics and Financial units, there were some videos we needed to watch, that I felt like... Read More were not in the level of what Springboard had so far. I think I was mostly frustrated about DataCamp. I did not feel like I've learned too much from it, and needed to find other sources to study from. The mentors (my mentor and the mentor on call) and the career coach I worked with were very professional, and I've learned a lot from them. Even thought the content was sometimes not to what I've expected, I found the overall experience very positive. I was able to find a job in the field while still studying, so I am grateful for Springboard and everything they did for me. Now I am fulfilling a dream I always had and never had the time to pursue (until now). Thank you Springboard!

I was always interested in looking into a boot camp for improving my programming abilities as I felt college's style of teaching never got to me. With Springboard, my mind was so focused on the curriculum that I questioned if the cost was worth the investment.... Read More In retrospect, I would of started sooner as it expanded my mental horizon in a lot of ways from my approach to learning, improving my productivity, better managing my time, and ,y networking skills that translates to being more sociable. The connections I have made have been so invaluable to my growth as a person that my confidence in my ability to succeed has bolstered by the person I have become. It also served as a good time filler during the Pandemic while I was working on the COVID response and graduating college. It was manageable and I attribute the mentorship to that. This program fills the void that college could not fill for me as I feel more clarity in my direction path.

Springboard provides a high-level overview of data analytics. It is self-paced and convenient for those who are trying to learn with other time constraints. The statistics methodology is sound and concise. It was the perfect complement and review to my... Read More Quantative Analysis MBA class and Linear Optimization class. Springboard teaches the fundamentals, but students must take the initiative after the course to continually practice and learn to handle exceptions that were not covered in the course. The course focuses on analyzing data once it is cleaned, but data cleaning techniques are necessary to be successful in the industry if you're not given a clean dataset by a data scientist or a data engineer. I became more confident and learned more after internships with data that required mining and cleaning than simply by focusing on concepts in class. If Springboard incorporates an internship, then it would be excellent! The mentors come from the industry and have worked at major companies like Hewlett Packard. Career coaches have worked in a variety of industries as recruiters. So, their advice can be helpful. Everyone wants you to succeed. So, it was a positive experience. My review of Springboard will be complete when I am employed. If I gain employment, then it was worth the effort. If not, then perhaps the program needs adjustments.

If you're considering a career in Data Analytics but don't know where to start - Springboard is for you. They give you all the tools you need to get started and provide support every step of the way. Is it challenging? YES! And that's GREAT because they... Read More really prepare you for what you can expect in real situations. Is the curriculum perfect? No, occasionally the directions would be contradictory or confusing. BUT there are many mentors, students, and advisors ready to help or fix such things as you come across them. I researched many courses before deciding on Springboard. I don't think you'll find a better price for the support and education you get from them. I am actually confident I will get a job as a data analyst because of Springboard. I came from an arts background, with no analytics experience, and 8 months later am being interviewed for data analyst positions. I got SO much out of this course and am happily writing this review because I truly believe others can too.