| | Anonymous | I did the online Full-Stack Web Development course. During my time in the course, I thought I was doing a good job. I was getting great feedback on all of my projects and was told I was moving along at a good pace. All my issues really started around job-search time. I'll start by admitting that I could have done more in terms of staying up to date with JavaScript. I wasn't fully aware of how much additional preparation and JavaScript practice is needed outside of FlatIron in order to be ready for a technical interview. I figured anything pertinent to a job interview would have been included in the course curriculum, when in-fact, there are additional FlatIron courses they suggest you take once completing the program to complete simultaneously with your job search. If you want a decent job after graduating, these extra courses and learning some computer science theory on your own are not something you can blow off.
However, I am still unbelievably disappointed with the quality of career services. Before I finished FlatIron, I told my career coach that I was moving to Los Angeles and would only be looking for jobs on the West Coast. Despite emphasizing this to my career coach multiple times, every meeting I had with her began with her saying, "oh! I didn't know you were moving to LA" or "so at what point do you think you'll move back East? We've got some career fairs in New York or DC with companies that would like to hire our grads on the spot!" Basically...DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE UNLESS YOU INTEND ON LIVING / WORKING IN NY or DC. Maybe this is obvious to most people because their main campuses are in DC and NY, however, if you're attracted to FlatIron School because of their high reviews on websites like this one, know that its for the in-person NY program where the overwhelming majority of students work in NY after. Based off of some other reviews I've read from people outside the Northeast, I don't think I'm alone in this sentiment. |
