Ubiqum Code Academy

Ubiqum requested us to post a review since last year, I waited to finish another Analytic course (cheaper), a free online course before sharing my experience. I am not new at coding, I do some SQL, advanced Macro for years . From past experiences, I benefited... Read More a lot from job shadowing, face to face mentorship (from experts at my workplace and online course, then consolidated and grew more skills thru tasks and time). So I was attracted by the "learning doing" at your pace advertised. Also, they had "good" reviews too. Though mostly from the Spanish campus and I guess by now, most done before 2019 before Ubiqum expansion in other countries, all that led me to enroll at Ubiqum in 2019 on site. FAR BEFORE THE 1st COVID ALERT IN CHINA, so any lockdown in Europe.... From week 1 I felt low spirited, by week 3 hearing the same from other disappointed students about the outdated curriculum and the unskilled frustrating mentors; I realized I had to quit the program and send a request for the refund. I was informed that the cancellation period was over. Until today I deeply regret that choice, I lost hard earned savings . Do not even make me start on their Job support... They do not get you the job, nor in any effective way help you finding one. My cheap online class offered: online professional resume help and support+ technical preparation for challenges or case studies for interviews. 1000euros vs 10000euros. With so many people financially struggling with the current market, economy, I can definitely say that Ubiqum was not worth it at all.

I compared this bootcamp to others and chose the Ubiqum one because it used Java. Java is still a really popular language and also very versatile. The course starts easy with basic coding and slowly but surely you go into the harder stuff. The progress... Read More in the course is pretty good but the step from front end to the back end programming is actually quite big. I've had several moments during the course in which I felt stuck and not really able to get the level. Luckily the mentor in the program is really good. He is very experienced and he really pulled me through it when I was very stuck. The good thing about this course is that you have a set program, but with your mentor, there is also room for flexility. I was able to experiment with some extra technologies that weren't in the program, but are still going to be very valuable in the industry. Finding a job after the program wasn't super easy. It took me about 1,5 months and most companies are looking for people with 2-3 years of experience. I noticed that I was invited for interviews if I really emphasized that you start programming from the first day. It also helped a lot to highlight that you have an portfolio on github with all your projects so the companies can actually see that you have been working for several months. Overal I would recommend the bootcamp because I know I wouldn't have been able to learn all of this in such a short time by myself. But prepare yourself for a rough couple of months with many ups and downs and lots of hard work.

I didn't have any experience in coding before getting into the Data Analytics & ML bootcamp at Ubiqum. Although it is true that in the first month it can be overwhelming, it is amazing how, with the learning-by-doing methodology and the support from the... Read More mentors, fast you start being comfortable with languages such as R or Python and many concepts from machine learning and data analysis. I would recommend it to those who are motivated to either shift their career path or want to apply data science to their respective fields, and are eager to learn and work hard during the 5-6 months of the course to get the most out of it.

The school gives you everything you need to be job-ready as a Data Analyst. The tasks are structured as real-life scenarios, so you gain relevant skills. The methodology is intensive, hands-on, and immediately dives you into the world of being able to... Read More use/read/manipulate data. The ethos of their education platform is ‘to learn by doing’. This is certainly the case. By the end of week 3, I was already proficient in using R and presenting findings as a data analyst. All the staff at Ubiqum are super friendly, and you can approach them with anything. They will go out of their way to get things sorted and make sure your time at Ubiqum is enjoyable.

Pros: The programme provided me with the skills I needed to successfully apply for data analyst roles, provided me with a knowledge of R beyond what I need in my current role as a market researcher, and my tutor (Luis Cerra) was absolutely amazing and... Read More was really invested in helping me understand the concepts and in helping me with my job search Cons: I know that the quality of tutors can vary, I got lucky with Luis! Also if your classmates aren't motivated then it can be a bit of an unengaging environment - but again, I got lucky here.

Firstly, the Ubiqum team was super easy to talk to and nice when I wanted to join one of their courses. I was going through a rough patch and they made sure to give me every help they could so I could join their Full Stack course.
The course itself had... Read More great content, greatly explained and with good exercises.
The mentor was very good and nice to deal with.
They trained us to learn by doing, by ourselves, to think outside of the box and to look for solutions with total independence - which sometimes is more important than the content of the course itself.
They helped us to make our CV and prepared us for interviews. I found a job that I still maintain to this day a week before I even finished the course.
Thank you Ubiqum!

If you prefer a learn-by-doing approach, I highly recommend Ubiqum. I enrolled in the Data Analysis and ML course, even do my background had nothing to do with IT or statistics. It was not easy, as the course is very demanding. However, if you fully commit... Read More to it, you will learn an impressive amount of new things in a relatively short period of time.

It is amazing what you can learn in only a few months. The bootcamp at Ubiqum Code Academy opened a whole new world for me. I always worked as a graphic designer but now I can bring my design to life with code.
Finding a job as a junior javascript developer... Read More is not easy but I am very happy to have done this bootcamp and would for sure do it again. I had a really great time at the academy although it was pretty difficult and the mentors are very good.

I joined Ubiqum on Sept 2018, without no technical background nor even a degree. To be honest, at the beginning I wasn't still 100% convinced on what I was doing. My main driver for me to engage in their Data Analytics & Machine Learning program was to... Read More leave my previous job -mechanic- behind, since for long time ago I felt unfulfilled there. Luckily, I met there with wonderful mates and great mentors who enabled me to quickly get the basics of how an analyst should think and, out of it, begin to find my own way to become employable in such a challenging job. All I can do is to praise them for having developed an excellent program and learning methodology and for the time and support they invested to me as well, often going way further than what I asked for. For anyone wondering whether to engage or not: the key for you to succeed is attitude. Think more about your soft skills -logical thinking, work ethic, desire to learn, collaborative spirit, etc.- rather than on your background, which obviously can help you but by any means shouldn't be a hurdle for anyone coming from any other knowledge domain or industry.

I studied business but I wanted a more analytic role. Therefore I joined the analytics course at Ubiqum, which I learned R, Python , ML and more. After I joined as advanced data analyst at Accenture, where I have been working for the last 2 years and... Read More a half.