Thinkful

Thinkful's part time program is one of the best decisions I've made. It is amazing to be able to keep your job and still attend the program after work to enhance your technical skills and/or work your way towards a new career. They offer support from a mentor who you meet with twice a week on webcam, which is the biggest difference between learning on your own and learning with Thinkful in my opinion. It is great to have someone that already works in the field to be there to help and answer any questions you may have. For the most part, the curriculum really breaks it down and makes it easy to understand everything although there have been some topic's where I have had to search Google or YouTube to understand a bit better.

I have been taking the Full Stack Flex program from Thinkful and I am very satsified with the amount of knowledge, help, and support I have received these past few months. I was very skeptical in the beginning of bootcamps with the cost and all the job guarantee reports that you see, but I can assure you that it was very worth the investment. I think the mentor sessions are what sets Thinkful apart from other bootcamps. You have a mentor who is actually a professional developer in the industry help you and guide you throughout the course and it is very helpful. I am finishing up and I am very excited to start my developer journey through Thinkful.

I started with the data science bootcamp & it definitely gave me a stronger foundation for the bootcamp. I work full time, and the vast majority of my free/leisure time is devoted to my data science bootcamp. It’s been an enjoyable experience thus far, and I’m glad I chose thinkful.

As one reviewer stated, I am finding the pacing odd, and am taking slightly longer to complete assignments than estimated. With that said, my mentor is amazing! She’s extremely knowledgeable, thorough and honest. She is committed to my success, and it shows. I’m thankful to have her as she has enriched my learning experience at least as much as the curriculum.

Haven’t started with career services yet, so I’m unable to speak on that at this time.

I am wrapping up the full stack flex program and have found a lot of value in it. It set me up well to find a job in web development. I spent about 15-30 hours on the course per week and am finishing in 5 months. The technologies are relevant to my local job market and the curriculum is updated frequently. The slack channel community is helpful in helping out when you are stuck. The Q & A sessions are very helpful. The mentorship model was great to keep me on track. Definitely worth the time, money and hard work!

Thinkful is one of the most expensive bootcamps out there. And naturally, I thought it would be one of the best out there. It also had so many good reviews. Now, I think they remove all the bad reviews and just keep the good ones.

It is definitely not worth the money they ask. The curriculum is not that great and teachers are fine but pacing is just awful. Also, I can not stress this enough. You can not, You can not learn programming and become developer in few weeks. If you put effort and time, you can get same resources provided by thinkful all over internet.

Do not go here.

I did not have much coding experience before attending thingful. I enrolled in full-time course which is intensive. I was struggling in the beginning as I was not very comfortable with pair-programing and fast-pace setting, but I tried to adpat quickly. I learned a lot from this program and could not believe that I could build React full-stack applications in a short amount of time. Capstone projects only allow one week to build with your classmates but it really helped me improved a lot of skills from planning steps, drafting wireframes, to creating components. My debugging skills also improved siginifcantly. Another nice thing about full-time course is I could access TAs everyday as we were doing daily assignmnents so it really saved me a lot of time debuggings. Their instructors are ...

Joining front end development course of thinkful online was the worst decision I made. Maybe their offline schools are good but they were not available in my town.

Their curriculum for is stale and old. Teachers are good but the time is not enough for you to learn web design, not in 2018.

And, all the ressources they have can be found for free on Youtube.

Go to YouTube and learn for yourself instead of throwing money at them.

Having access to your own tutor is key to becoming proficient in any field and software engineering is certainly no exception. Along with your own personal tutor, you get access to an incredible curriculum that I found quite effective at teaching the concepts of a full-stack javascript web developer. The community, students and mentors alike, are all very helpful whether you're learning the ropes or have a technically challenging question.

Justification to attend:
I had done a lot of googling before coming to Thinkful and I had found through various sites similar to this one that it had some of the best reviews.
I had been in the web development field (primarily backend) for more than 10 years. At the end of my most recent engagement prior to Thinkful I began dusting off the resume and realized
that most of the jobs at the places I wanted to work at required either full stack skills or strong frontend skills. Sure, I could have taught myself how to do all of this, and most often when I need a new skill in a pinch I read a book or two on the subject but often times when you need to learn something fast, it is difficult to know what to learn and how to learn it thanks to a large amount of content (both excellent and horr...

I knew I wanted to be a developer for a while and had taken some preliminary front end web development courses throughout my early career. What I liked about Thinkful was the flexibility. I completed the full-time program and could not recommend it enough. If you're like me, you need to commit your full energy to something as commanding as coding to truly get the most out of it. I recommend saving up and taking the full-time program if you are truly looking to pursue web development. I can't speak to the part-time program, but I know that if I didn't have the Teaching Assistants provided by the Engineering Immersion, I would have had a much more difficult time. I found a job on my own before the course was over and can't speak to the career support part of the program, but I do know tha...

I had a fantastic experience with Thinkful. From the start, I was paired with a mentor that lasted throughout the six-month online course. The flexibility of the school allowed me to continue to work full time. My mentor was more than willing to answer any questions I had and was very flexible with meeting times. I received a job in Full Stack Development before I even graduated! If you put in the time and effort to be successful in this program, there is no doubt you will be.

Overall Thinkful was a phenomenal program. I was able to switch careers in 6 months and be effective in my new position as a developer. Like anything you get out what you put in. If you put in the effort the support is there and so are the rewards at the end. Definitely recommend!

I started learning to program a few years ago. I felt like I wasn't making the strides I would like to in programming so I decided to join a bootcamp and Thinkful was the one that I chose. I chose Thinkful for a couple of reason: one being the affordability as compared to other bootcamps, second I was sold on their model for how they conduct learning with online one-on-one mentoring, and lastly I knew joining a great bootcamp would accelerate my skills and they gave me all the support for me to achieve my goals. It's a great place to jumpstart your career as a software engineer.

I am currently about halfway through the the Thinkful Full Stack Flex Program. This program has been great in developing my skills, knowledge, and confidence as a web developer. I considered doing the Engineering Immersion program and decided on this program after talking to an advisor at Thinkful. I was concerned that there may be a difference in the amount of preparation given by the Flex program versus the Immersive program, but it sounds like the main difference is in the format and structure. I am someone that does well with self-study, so the Flex program made sense for me

The program is rigorous and I’m working full time at it. I would say that there are several modes of learning: written course materials, external resources, embedded examples and exercises, small projects, an...

After I decided I wanted to learn web development, I did a lot of research before choosing Thinkful. I considered in person and online bootcamps, full and part time courses, 3 and 6 month programs, different technologies, etc. There are so many options and I am so glad I chose Thinkful's online Full Stack Flex bootcamp.

Why I liked Thinkful's Full Stack Flex course:
-Learn the most current tech - JS, Node, MongoDB, React, Redux
-Written course materials instead of videos - easy to go back and reference when working through projects
-Lots of examples and small projects to enforce the concepts
-Several options to get help - mentor, slack channels, Q&A sessions
-Go your own pace - it's online and you are not in a cohort with others so once you understand something you can move ...

I'm currently a student in the Full Stack Flex program, and so far, it's been great! I was first following the self taught route for a few months, but felt like I needed something more structured/guidance. So about three months ago, I started looking into bootcamps, and found Thinkful. I've been in the program for about two months, and definitely don't regret my decision. Thinkful has a great curriculum, you get to practice the skills you learn as you go. It's not easy but not impossible to do either. I've learned so much these past two months. Everyone, from my mentor to program manager, and everyone else I've encountered in the program have been really nice and super helpful. Mentor sessions and q&a sessions have been very helpful as well. There's plenty of resources to take advantage...

Background:

I was able to finish the program two months early. However, I have a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, and I studied Machine learning for about six months on my own before I started Thinkful, so I was able to breeze through a lot of the math and some of the more basic machine learning topics. I also decided to quit my full-time job and got a part-time job so that I could finish the program faster. I ended up spending almost 40-50 hours per week on the material, and spent a lot of extra time with my first (out of 3) capstone project.

The pros:

The biggest plus for me was having a curriculum that broke it down into digestible pieces and coding assignments. That part by itself already makes it way easier to learn data science. My mentor was awesome, and talking ab...

My qualifications for this review: biology undergraduate education, no formal/previous background in coding at all, joined Thinkful's Data Science Bootcamp about a month and a half ago.

My program search and why I chose Thinkful: I knew others who had gone through this program and talked with them about their experiences, searched Course Report for what online bootcamps were popular, discussed my questions with Jessica (one of the Thinkful advisors), and spoke with others about their experiences in other programs. I would recommend any prospective students to ask A LOT of questions to people who are just a few steps ahead of you. But, it's ultimately your decision.

I chose Thinkful because I liked their track record of taking people with non-coding backgrounds and ensuring they d...

I found Thinkful after looking into other bootcamps that I couldn't do with my current job (I work most weekends and sporadically late through the week). I was happy to see there was an option with solid reviews and flexible hours - quality learning experience without having to give up current income.

This is a time intensive course, there is a lot of information to take in and retain. I have been very lucky with my mentors and program managers, seems like everyone is there to help out without just handing me answers. It has been a great experience and I truly feel like they want me to succeed, not just pass. I haven't made it to the job support phase yet, but I am looking forward to it.

If you can put in the time, this is a great place to learn. Good luck!

I began this course because my old career path was at a dead end and I needed to start again. I knew I was intelligent enough to have a place in the new economy, but I desperately needed retraining. The retraining had to be affordable, online, and on a flexible schedule. I am middle aged and feel like traditional classrooms and theory are a waste. Thinkful was precisely what I needed! The mentoring made my progress rapid and I have an awesome data science job. I highly recommend the learning experience in Thinkful. The program has renewed my career and I am deeply grateful.