| | Anonymous | I took the Data analyst course.
The other students were nice overall, i had nice people experience. I think the teachers are also ok.
The material is super outdated and very low level. They use materials from 2016-2017, some of them are not actual and many of the source materials are not available. Teachers upload missing data to google drive as they realize its missing, but we still use outdated stuff.
Learning portals(Udemy, Coursera etc) vs Ironhack
Learning material:
Learning portals: 10/10, very up to date, and huge selection.
Ironhack: 3/10, outdated and the same for years without change. They don't even take effort to find out tasks, you have to do them.
Price:
Learning portals: 10/10 , from free, super cheap
Ironhack: 2/10, 7000$, can be much, much more at other bootcamp schools
Teacher knowledge:
Learning portals: 10/10, the greatest minds are sharing their knowledge.
Ironhack 3/10: They definately are not stupid. And they do their best I'm assuming. But its not compareable.
Hours included:
Learning portals: as much as you want
Ironhack: 400ish(half of them are 'standups' and 'games' which are not fun super useless and really do take a lot of time away).
Actual hours put in:
Learning portals: 2/10, usually people slack off because its free/cheap and there is no time limit.
Ironhack: 7/10, as above, you pay and you want to get something for your money so you slack less.
Paper for people with no PHD:
Learning portals: 3/10, if you can actually do what is in your 'certifications', the sky is the limit. But just the certificate itself doesn't worth shit.
Ironhack: 2/10, same as above, but since you can only learn less, you can't show up more.
Career support:
Learning portals: usually close to 0
Ironhack: I did not attend this, i was disappointed enough in the 10 weeks. I don't expect anything big, the only 'alumni' they could get to talk to us as previous student was a super lowlvl job(the guy was cool though so no offense there).
This could be said about all courses and bootcamps on the world, but from online courses you can get refunds super easily if you dont like something, so its easier to select out the trash. With bootcamps you pay thousands of dollars with no hope of a refund if its shit.
TLDR: Overall experience:
I'm not sure what I expected from this, I was new to the field and wanted to jump in somehow, just learning a few hours every now and then was not really effective. So in a way it was good, because I spent the time on learning, not on playing games etc. Also i did not have to work during the 10 week with full salary because of covid. So i only regret it halfsy.
Don't do any bootcamps if you can sit down by yourself to study/read stuff. The only reason to pick a bootcamp is because you can't get yourself to sit down and learn. If you can, online learning is the way.
Oh i almost forgot: Teachers, TAs and job supporters were many times late and cancelling appointments(during full lockdown, they were working from home but cancelled the hours!!) |
