Flatiron School vs Hack Reactor

Flatiron School

Flatiron School's COVID-19 Response: https://flatironschool.com/blog/keeping-our-community-safe-during-covid-19 Flatiron School offers immersive on-campus and online programs in software engineering, data science, and cybersecurity in NYC, Brooklyn, Washington DC, London, Houston, Atlanta, Austin, Seattle, Chicago, Denver, and Online. Flatiron School’s immersive courses aim to launch students into fulfilling careers as software engineers, data scientists, and cybersecurity engineers through rigorous, market-aligned curricula, and the support of seasoned instructors and personal career coaches. Through test-driven labs and portfolio projects, Flatiron teaches students to think and build like software engineers and data scientists. To apply, applicants must submit a written application about why they want to join Flatiron School, take part in an interview with an admissions advisor, learn some basic skills, and discuss it with an instructor. Flatiron is looking for people with passion and aptitude and aims to admit people with a variety of backgrounds. Flatiron School also offers several free introductory courses, including Coding Bootcamp Prep and Data Science Bootcamp Prep.  Flatiron School offers a money-back guarantee for their Software Engineering, Data Science, and Cybersecurity Immersives – if students don’t get a qualifying job offer within six months of graduation, they can get their money back (see eligibility at flatironschool.com/terms). Flatiron’s Career Services team provides weekly 1:1 career coaching sessions, mock interviews, and employer introductions to help students launch lifelong careers in tech. Flatiron School also powers the Access Scholarship investing $1.5 million into the futures of more than 500 students across all our campuses and online courses in 2020. The Scholarship opens doors for aspiring innovators who may have experienced barriers to education and lets students enroll for $0 upfront. Flatiron School was one of the first bootcamps in the industry to publish outcomes, backing its 99% employment rate for the NYC Software Engineering Immersive, and 94% employment rate for the Online Software Engineering Immersive with annual independently-verified jobs reports (check out the full report at flatironschool.com/outcomes). 

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Flatiron - Immersive DS Program

Created 4 days ago

I attended the DC campus' Fellowship (fully paid for) Immersive DS Program - the curriculum was great with very knowledgeable Instructors and Coaches who are extremely approachable, friendly and helpful. They are there for you every step of the way, and my cohort was small with only 8 people in the end, but we all got along amazingly. Brilliant and fun people all around. The facility at the WeWork was clean and a great environment to get work done - both independently and collaboratively -...See more

Pros

Awesome people who are incredibly smart and fun.

Cons

It is an intensive program where a lot of information is crammed into 4 months, and you get to only barely scratch the surface on some topics - but again, that's unavoidable.

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Hack Reactor

Hack Reactor offers 12-week full-time and 36-week part-time software engineering programs at their campuses in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, Boulder, Seattle, Phoenix, or online. Their program covers Computer Science Fundamentals, Full Stack App Development, and Production-Grade Engineering.

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Fantastic program

Created 4 days ago

Took the HR immersive having known one strongly typed language prior but no JS experience. The curriculum did an amazing job of dropping you right into a code base and having you figure out what needed to be done to find solutions which I though accurately mimicked real world experience. The teachers and support staff were top notch and cared greatly about student advancement and, ultimately, job success.

Pros

- great teachers/staff - real world prep curriculum - great job hunting support system - great alumni community

Cons

- expensive, but I believe they offer a job offer percentage now.

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