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Very happy with the decision I’ve taken to register to the Diploma in Full Stack Web Development at Concordia Bootcamps. The curriculum was very well written and laid out in a way that you’d always learn and build and concepts you learn. The teacher was very knowledgeable and very dynamic, same for the TAs that were helping him and us. Even though it all happened remotely due to the pandemic, it was very smooth and interactive. When coding, the teacher and TAs will let you fail as long as it’s no longer productive for you to do so, which according to me, is the best way to learn. Once the course is over, you’re fully supported by their career services. They bring you in front of employers, they help with your CV, they coach you for you first, second, third interview and a technical coach is assigned to you to review and comment on technical tests some companies will make you do in order to move to the next step. Only 3 months after graduation, I’ve had one freelance contract as a full stack developer and I’m now a full time front end developer at one of the coolest dev shop in Montreal. Highly recommend it!

I chose this bootcamp to make a drastic career switch from working my usual bank job. Covid hit and the course had to be taught online. The bootcamp was by far one of the best experiences I've ever had. I was going into this bootcamp with an *inkling* of an idea of coding. There were clearly other students who had a background in coding/relative experience in the domain. The TC's were fantastic in helping the student with the assignments. My only gripe was that I had to spend longer nights trying to figure out what I was learning at my own pace. The "Teaching" aspect of the course could've been a little better, I felt too alienated to ask a simple question when half my class was on to bigger things. After the bootcamp, the career support was great. I had weekly meetings with my coach and we practiced interviewing, had an improved version of my CV, and a technical coach was available if you needed help with an assignment a company was handing off.

I enrolled to Journey's web dev bootcamp a little more than a year ago after deciding to make a career switch. What a ride, I hadn't been to school for a decade and I didn't know a iota about coding. I think the way the program is setup, from top top to bottom, makes it easier (relatively, this is hard and takes effort, it truly is a bootcamp) for total newbs. Whether it's your teacher or the technical coaches, the people managing this program made sure to hire the bomb. That's for the bootcamp part. When you're done, they made sure to not leave you on your own with your newly acquired knowledge. Which is awesome, because, well for my case anyways, I still lacked confidence. So for another 3 months ( I'm not sure about the span of time, all hell broke loose (covid) when we were at the bootcamp) I had access to a technical coach who would answer my questions as well as a career coach who I could speak about nothing and everything , both of them guiding me further up my journey. Landing a job is not guaranteed at the end of the bootcamp, and while they do organise job fairs (some of my colleagues find their first gig that way!), it's important to keep grinding. Coding every day, sending cvs, staying studious.