| | Anonymous | Overall:
Start with FreeCodeCamp.org. Get a feel of it, and if you really think this career is for you, go find a bootcamp other than this one and enroll to that.
DO NOT ENROLL TO THIS ONE.
Do yourself a favor and go find a different bootcamp.
Pros:
- You get to dabble with different languages, frameworks, and libraries.
Cons:
- IMPORTANT: It's not really UCI, the company itself is called Trilogy and they just pay UCI to use one of their buildings. That's basically it. This bootcamp does not any association with UCI whatsoever.
- The instructor for this class did not have a degree, was self-taught, and was very unprofessional. Was unable to follow the lesson plan and would deviate from it almost all the time. You would think that they would at least hire someone with a CS degree or at least years of experience as a developer and teaching it.
- The TAs were incompetent. One graduated from the previous cohort with no experience whatsoever, and the other one was just plain lazy.
- The career services sends you generic templates which does not help you with your job search. You can literally google all the "resources" that they send. In addition, they constantly bombard you with these "helpful resources" when all you need is a simple answer from the career services person, which she is unable to do because she is handling ALL the students from UCI and UCLA bootcamps. To think that each class (at least the part-time classes) consists of 25 students that pays at least 11k. You do the math. (25 * $11,000 = $275,000) and that's just for one class. They should have at least have one career service person PER class. But not they do not!! They have 1 person handling over 200 students.
- Lesson plan / entire curriculum kept changing.
- No communication between the instructor and the TAs |
