Thinkful

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.

I've been interested in the Fullstack Flex program, but I took the Frontend Web Dev course as a trial to see what Thinkful was like. I've completed a coding bootcamp a couple years ago with another company and felt like I didn't really learn much or really understand why things worked. It was a lot of trial and error and scrambling to get a working app by the end of every project week - but never fully understanding why what I did worked.

I really liked Thinkful's program. I like having material to read as well as all the resources it links you to and the drills along the way. I do feel like it requires you to either have a little bit of background knowledge or to be really proactive in doing your own research to supplement the material (or really make use of those linked resources t...

I am four months into the full stack flex and the journey so far has been amazing. I was very skeptical of bootcamps at first and read a lot of these reviews before I first started too, but after going through the program I can confidently say that Thinkful goes above and beyond your expectations. The program offers all of the material since day one and you can go comfortably at your own pace without the pressure of finishing by a deadline. Of course it's in our best interests to finish quicker when considering tuition costs, but I can confidently say that I have learned so much within these past few months and it has been worth it. The biggest pro of Thinkful in my opinion is the 1 on 1 mentorship. Every week you can schedule a mentor session as much as you need and get help on whateve...

Pros:
- Great curriculum that provides lots of challenges & drills
- Mock interviews test you throughout the program to make sure you are on track and understand concepts thoroughly
- 1-1 mentorship, meeting 2x a week and a great community to ask questions through

Cons:
- You can't replace a computer science degree 100% -- there is so much "miscellaneous" extra stuff that you won't learn from a 6 month bootcamp. Be realistic about expectations.

Overall:
The full stack flex program is great. The curriculum is thorough and mentors do the job of filling in real-world gaps in your knowledge. Just make sure you are realistic and understand that you will get out of it what you put in, and expect to put in a good number of hours! However, the mentors and your program manager do a gr...

Pros: Mentors are actual Software Engineers that have a lot of experience and knowledge to pass on. They are very present and extremely helpful. I feel I have learned a ton of new things in the past 3 months of taking the program.

Cons: Sometimes material does not go every thing that is required to complete the associated projects

This has been a great journey for me coming from virtually no programming background. The coursework is really good at taking a fairly new topic and familiarizing us and eventually helping us master it. The most vital aspect of this bootcamp is the one-on-one sessions with a personal mentor twice a week, who is a very experienced developer. This really helped me a lot! On top of that, there are multiple Q&A sessions going on during the day with other mentors where you can go in and participate and ask any questions you may have. There are various milestones that you hit during the course and many projects that you create (which eventually becomes your portfolio as well). This really helps you gather whatever you've learned up to that point and make something out of it. That's the best w...

I guess being as the first deaf student within this bootcamp. My first impression was their resources and expectations. Even if there were some bumps along the way, but they were more willing to figure out the solution. My progress with this bootcamp is at the hard place right now, but there is plentiful support from peers, mentors, and teachers. I could not imagine myself doing some self-taught without any support. I would recommend you to check this out and give it a try.

I am currently in the midst of the full stack flex program at Thinkful. While I had tried learning on my own through the many websites that are available to learn web development I always felt something was missing. That is until I found Thinkful and it's 1 on 1 mentor sessions it has greatly improved my understanding of web development and I can not stress how useful it is to get instant feedback and help that my mentors have provided for me so far. They ask me questions to make sure I understand the material as well which I feel has really helped to squash the dreaded 'imposter syndrome' because they give me the opportunity to show to myself that I know what I am talking about. On top of that, the projects that are giving are fairly open-ended allowing you to be creative with only gui...

For someone with close to zero in terms of background in Computer Science/Web Design/ Coding, I've found Thinkful to be very much accessible and helpful. As I near the end of my front-end side of the curriculum, there were definitely many things that I had a hard time wrapping my mind around, but having my mentor talk me through my code, to clarify concepts, and give me the actual working-world application of the things I'm learning really helps. The mentors will meet you where you're at, patiently stepping you through difficult concepts and projects when you get stuck. As someone that has tried on multiple occasions to learn some coding through online courses and try to get some marketable skills, the mentors at Thinkful make the big difference.
They're really there to ...

"Part-time. Fully committed. Unlike a traditional bootcamp, you don't have to quit your job. We get you a job in tech, guaranteed". 

Hi everyone. I am currently enlisted in the full stack flexible course at Thinkful online. The first half of the course is finished and I am starting with the second one right now. I definetly recommend this bootcamp to everyone but let me tell you why.
I am working a 40 hour week and currently live in Germany. I a had no savings to effort a full-time bootcamp overseas so the online part-time variant was the best choice for me. So, I paid the costs upfront and during that process the Thinkful support was super helpful and gave me a lot of guidance.  
Until now I had two mentors and two program managers. All of them were super supportive and I honestly ...

In November 2017, I started my Full Stack Flex Course for Thinkful and immediately loved it. I had previous experience in HTML, JavaScript, CSS and flew through the beginning lessons. As the curriculum got more complex, jumping into Node/Express and the Back-end, my frustration definitely grew like it would for any other program. The difference from self-study and studying with Thinkful was the community and the help of a mentor.

A big pro to the Thinkful Online Full Stack Flex Course were the Q&A Sessions that are available to students where staff members have an office-hours type video call where they help out all students who drop in with the questions they have. The staff members were extremely helpful and willing to answers further questions outside of the office hours.

The ...

Note: Thinkful has Career Services (job support), but I selected N/A as I have yet to utilize them.

I am a student currently enrolled in the Full Stack Flex program at Thinkful. I had a lot of experience learning on my own before joining (shoutout to non-profit freeCodeCamp, which, to be 100% honest, I would recommend over ANY boot camp if you are brand new to programming), so my experience may be different than others. If you have experience and you're ready to make the commitment necessary, I think Thinkful is one of the best paid boot camps you could choose.

The curriculum is great and covers everything you need to know, while providing links to outside resources for other stuff that will be helpful. You are "taught" new tech such as ES6 and React, but the material does a good ...

I love this boot camp. I was a bit tentative in deciding whether or not to do this boot camp due to the fact that I was already employed full-time. The prospect of having 25-30+ hours a week of coding on top of my already busy schedule was something that I had to get used to but when it comes down to it, I haven't regretted my decision one bit.

There is no doubt that the material is difficult and having to manage my time has been something I have struggled with. The curriculum itself is awesome (though hard!) and the drills and projects I have done so far have provided me with a great base to build upon as I continue through the course. I really feel that when I finish, I will have the knowledge and skills to pursue a career in web development.

More than anything, I cannot be mo...

I am genuinely surprised that they managed to make a developer out of me! I feel the curriculum is not sufficient for someone coming from absolute zero coding background, but they have lots of recommendations and external sources with it. My mentor was brilliant, and beyond helpful at all times, I really enjoyed working with him. I would definitely recommend this course, because of the great deal of support, flexibility, and good quality education.

The Thinkful curriculum and community support have propelled me into the world of data science, giving me the confidence and the skills needed to land my first tech job. Over the past few months in the course, I've been able to build an impressive portfolio of data wrangling, machine learning, and visualization projects. Curriculum was clear and well-structured, and community events allowed me to start to build my local professional network.

When I first joined Thinkful, I didn't understand the landscape of coding bootcamps...as I went through the curriculum and Thinkful pushed me to make connections in my community, I realized I was lucky to have ended up with Thinkful. I've met several people from other bootcamps who've experienced sub-par curriculum, a lack of support, and no follow through from their organization. With Thinkful, it's been the exact opposite.

To begin, I had an amazing program manager who made himself available to chat with me whenever I messaged him. He cared about my projects and my progress and connected me to Thinkful staff in my city when they expanded their community presence.

Next, my mentor has become my best friend! I am very fortunate to have connected with him right away and I've had ...

I have completed the data science course at Thinkful and am very happy with the experience. My mentor, Vincent, is not only extremely knowledgable but also really helpful. You can tell that he values teaching and sincerely cares about the students that he works with. We were able to discuss the concepts in depth and he made sure that I was generating code correctly and that I used best practices. In my final project I was able to build a neural network that I am now in the process of turning into a product and could not be happier with the skillset that I now possess. If I had any issues I was able to connect with the management team (Matt's awesome) and they resolved them quickly and you could tell that they were analyzing my concerns to make sure that they are continuously improving t...

I had an amazing experience at thinkful, made long lasting friends and was able to make the industry shift from over the road truck driving with just thinkful and a high school diploma... Oh and hard work, determination, and discipline of course. I've done a lot of challenging things so far at the age of 25, i've owned 2 businesses, am a marine corps veteran, and now graduate of Thinkful and found my way into the tech industry working professionally now. I started full stack immersive class at the end of September and graduated mid-february. The cirriculum is very thorough and constantly updated making you the most modern dev when you go into interviews. The languages/frameworks the other applicants are talking about trying to learn, you already know in depth from Thinkful. The 2 best ...

Thinkful was an amazing experience. The entire program is set up for success. My mentor was there to not only to provide real-world experience but to help me get through many of the roadblocks that appear while working on a project. In addition, their open QA sessions and slack channels were there to help between mentor sessions. Thinkful also worked with me when my day job prevented me from spending time on the program and when I had a baby and needed to focus on my family. Thinkful's excellent career services helped me to land the exact job I was looking for.