| | David Pears | A great course that I relocated to Edinburgh for (it came that highly recommended by a friend in the tech industry in Scotland). Prior to this course I had rarely dealt with any serious tech other than the standard office stuff. I found the course well planned, a good pace and intensive - but with great support. It has opened a new career up for me. I would highly recommend. |
| | Anonymous | For 3 years before I've done CodeClan I have been trying to learn how to code. I knew a lot of the information delivered in the course even before I joined, but I didn't know how to put everything together until I did the course. CodeClan have got teaching people the basics down to a T. The course is really well thought out and it's structured in such a way that even a computer illiterate would come out with a pretty comprehensive view of how coding works. The classes are very well structured and there is nothing about my learning journey I can complain about.
Getting support from the career staff on the other side is a total mess. We had a careers week mid-course and that just put everyone in our cohort in a panic state. We've been told to make a LinkedIn profile but were given no guidance for it, and the main focus has just been on building a CV, which had to follow their own template. I think I was lucky for getting a job with a company from Speed Networking, because I can see my career progression turning into a nightmare otherwise. I am in touch with a few other alumni and some of them are still looking even though they graduated more than 3 months ago! I thought when I enrolled in the course that the reason I'm paying a huge heap of money was because they were good at getting people jobs. But apart from Speed Networking I haven't seen or heard about people getting hired via CodeClan in any other way. They attempt to get partner companies to hold talks and come and meet students, but there's not much point to it because those companies aren't usually looking to hire.
As with any other thing, you get out of it what you put into it. I was desperate for change when I started the course and that motivated me to go beyond just attending class. The extra things you do set you apart, just like with any other learning institution and I don't see why people have different expectations from this course. Bottom line is, they promise to teach you the basics of coding and not a job. So in my view they delivered. |
