App Academy vs Lambda School

App Academy is a coding school that offers online and in-person training programs with no tuition cost until you’re hired as a Software Engineer earning over $50,000. The career changing outcomes that App Academy has produced since being founded in 2012 is a major reason why it’s considered the most respected code school in the industry. App Academy has placed over 3,000 people in full-time Software Engineering roles at average salaries of $101,000 in San Francisco, $95,000 in New York, and $80,000 nationally. Their alumni work at over 1,000 companies worldwide, including Google, Apple, Netflix, Twitter, and more. App Academy understands the skills that make a successful software engineer, and more importantly, how to teach them to you. If you don’t succeed after completing the program, you pay nothing, and that’s how it should be.

17 App Academy reviews

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Created 8 days ago

App Academy is still a standard in the industry. Offering an Income Shared Agreement for students that don't have the money up front, they put their money where their mouth is: they win only if you win.

Pros

The people make the program. They hire not only the smartest, but the kindest and most patient. There are rules in place, but they care more about the effort and the passion.

Cons

Not CIRR verified. Curriculum could go deeper in regards to JavaScript under the hood.

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Lambda School is an online coding school offering immersive six-month programs in Android and iOS development, data science, full stack web development, and UX design. Students can expect to learn computer science fundamentals, front end technologies like CSS, HTML, and JavaScript using React; as well as backend technologies like Python, SQL, Node, and Django.

6 Lambda School reviews

Doubled my income doing something I love

Created 6 days ago

Within 6 months of graduating from college and moving to the San Fransisco Bay Area, the place I was born and raised, I came to the dreaded realization that I wouldn't be able to support myself financially. I was working 50+ hour weeks in a career path that I was quickly losing interest in. *queue quarter life crisis* Coming into my career change I had barely any programming experience. The most I knew about computers was that there was a thing called the "command line" where you could execute commands to the Operating System. I began self-studying after work for 6 months before realizing I was ready to take the plunge... but I needed help. I had just started learning React and it was destroying my mind. I needed the accountability to push through the hard parts (I'm looking at you CS curriculum). I knew from college that I do well with remote/online classes. Plus the time saved from commuting to San Fransisco I got to spend working part-time. It...See more

Pros

- Fully remote - Career counselors and hiring partner list is constantly growing - Constantly iterating to be the top of the game - rolling out new curriculum quickly and testing new ways to help students succeed

Cons

- Still going through scaling pains - Heard horror stories from part-time and non-web programs

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