Cybersecurity Online Part-Time Bootcamp

The cost of this bootcamp was over $16,000. The instructors for the most part “Coding Dojo” graduates. Not at all IT professionals. Do not buy into the lies that the sale marketing team tells you. They will tell you about all the support, the number of IT jobs out there, how you’ll get hands on job ready experience when you finish, lifetime career services and it is all BS. The curriculum is so broken that you do not learn anything. They build you up while you are enrolled so that you don’t drop out (which means they lose money). The “hands on” that you do is never gone over for you to understand in depth. The assignments were so broken that you are better off using TryHackMe labs (that subscription only cost $15.00 a month). You pay $16,000 for a very vague introduction into Cybersecurity. They do claim that  they prepare you for the CompTIA Ssec+ and CompTIA CySA+. Let me tell you that once I finished this Bootcamp in July, I got my Sec+ in August and I got my CySA+ a month after that. Not once did I use the information that was provided on Coding Dojo’s platform because it did not help. Most of the information is misspelled or out of place. One interesting finding that I do want to point out in this review is that I used Jason Dion’s CompTIA courses to prepare for both CompTIA exams and I realized while studying for my CySA+, the EXACT word for word material that comes from Jason Dion’s course was the entire Intermediate portion of the bootcamp!!! The “INSTRUCTOR” used exactly word for word in all of “HIS” writeup slides the exact sentences from Jason Dion’s study guide that is provided to you when you purchase his course on Udemy. His course on Udemy cost $20.00!!! This cost over $16,000! I wonder how Jason Dion would feel about a “tech” school using his material word for word? The lifetime Career Services is a complete joke. They will meet with you 1 time after you finish the program and then after that they ghost you. Complete waste of time to use this Bootcamp and they do say that they do not guarantee employment (it’s common sense that nobody can ever guarantee employment) but that is the cover up they will use for a review like this. This honest review is coming from someone who finished triple black belt in all 3 stacks of the program (Core, Intermediate and Professional). This review could not be more honest and to the point. A coding dojo “ninja” graduate means nothing to anybody. One last thing to mention is I did find out is that they are suspending the Cybersecurity course for the remainder of the year and I believe that I a good thing! Do not believe the advertisements on YouTube and do not buy into the sales pitch that they give you. Coding Dojo is a scam and you can learn Cybersecurity for a heck of a lot less money by using Udemy, YouTube or any other online resources. If you do read this and still think that Coding Dojo is worth it, please read this review again and look somewhere else.

Please save your money and go somewhere else. Coding Dojo's Cybersecurity program is overly priced for the very sub-par services they offer. I was excited and assured that you can do this program as a newbie to the tech world. It felt like someone hurriedly threw together the curriculum. I spent my first three months trying to sort through the course work, trying to make sense of sentences that didn't even fit together. It was very poorly structured.  Literally whole paragraphs would not make sense grammatically. They have three different professors for beginner, intermediate and the professional stack. I truly do not know what they were thinking hiring the first professor to teach the beginner section. He is someone who is clearly well knowledgeable but not even close to being a good teacher. Many times, when questioned to explain something deeper because a student didn't understand, he would often repeat the explanation he already gave and then say "you get it?" When the person replied no, he would say, well lets table it for now. He said that for everything and after a month about 30 people dropped from the program because they weren't getting the help they were promised to understand this very large and complex topic. The other two teachers were much better than him but because we weren't given a great foundation in the program everything was a struggle. I've done other bootcamps that were thousands less, way more helpful and just very intuitive for the student to learn in the best environment possible.Trying to contact someone for help was just as ambiguous, after reaching out to TA's and meeting with the professor himself, I resorted to complaining directly to the school imploring that I needed help. I was gaslit and even though I had proof to show that I had reached out on numerous occasions, it was still determined that it was somehow my fault even though I was putting in 40 hours of studying weekly. This program is why bootcamps can have a bad connotation with scamming. Save your money and go somewhere else.