Data Science Online

Overall, I had a very great experience at neue fische and highly recommend the data science and AI bootcamp. Our coaches Omar and Moses were great teachers, supportive and established a very positive vibe in our cohort. The bootcamp teaches very valuable skills, progresses in a well-thought manner and balances hands-on practice and lectures well. Because of that, I'd say that this bootcamp is also manageable for people with very limited knowledge of statistics and programming. It is quite intensive though so you really need to commit to it in order to succeed.Two points of critique: I think the Python notebooks could be improved. Towards the end of the course, the notebooks became very text heavy with less practice exercises. This defeated the purpose of working through the notebooks in pairs. However, I should also stress that there are three practice projects so there is ample opportunity to gain hands-on experience. Secondly, because the career coaching sessions by Olga and Renate were so well designed and moderated, they should be extended (perhaps by another one or two live sessions). The sessions inspired me approach my job hunt differently and prepared me well for future interviews.

 „Definitiv nicht zu empfehlen."So etwas Schlechtes habe ich noch nie erlebt! Auf dem Papier klingt alles perfekt – in der Realität ist es jedoch das Gegenteil. Man fühlt sich regelrecht verarscht. Und das für 16.000 € pro Person!
Der Start und der erste Teil (z. B. das Einrichten von Tools wie VS Code oder Git Bash) waren noch sehr gut, sodass man große Hoffnungen hatte, wie es weitergehen würde. Doch danach kam nichts mehr – die Qualität wurde von Tag zu Tag schlechter.Beispiel:
Um 10 Uhr Treffen im virtuellen Klassenzimmer
5 Minuten warten, bis alle da sind
Danach 10 Minuten „Lektüre“: Die sogenannte Coachin hat lediglich ihre Präsentation zu einem komplett neuen und komplexen Thema vorgelesen
Ab 10:15 Uhr hieß es dann nur noch „Self Learning“ – und bei Fragen könne man sich um 16 Uhr ins Online-Meeting einwählen
Mehrere Teilnehmer haben sich im Chat beschwert, dass das Thema völlig neu sei und man mehr begleitete Zusammenarbeit brauche. Außerdem sei Vorlesen kein „Teaching“. Die Reaktion der Trainerin darauf war wörtlich: „That is rude. You should learn how to respect other colleagues if you want to be successful in your job. You are not allowed to be rude!“
Es gibt zwar einzelne Coaches, die wirklich gut und hilfsbereit sind. Aber das gesamte Konzept lässt insgesamt viel zu wünschen übrig.

The Course Content was good, and the Lecturers highly attentive. That's all the positives I can say. The course is very expensive if the employment office don't pay for you, so don't bother paying for it with your own money. You would be better off investing 10% of that into coursera or udemy courses. Something that makes me bitter about the course is the marketing about partner companies and high employment rates after the bootcamps.  Firstly, the partnerships are nothing more than a contact with an HR representative. The careers services personnel are incompetent and the only thing they can actually do is slow down your application process. Just apply directly to companies because you won't receive any better service with the careers team. I recommend they are all fired. My normal experience with recruitment personnel is that they are trying desperately to find you a job so that they get their commission. With Neue Fische staff, it took [name redacted] 2 months just to reply to an interest I had in a partner company. And the reply was just to say they were no longer taking applicants, even though the partner had open positions or their website.  Then with regards to the "high employment rate". What they fail to mention is that those employment rates have nothing to do with the course. 90% employment rates after the bootcamp? but they fail to mention that those people could be getting jobs as baristas. I finished my course 4 months ago and not a single student has been able to get a Data Science job. The careers services team also give absolutely no guidance on how you could improve yourself after the bootcamp, to make yourself more sellable to companies. But why would you expect them to?? I've already explained why they are nothing more than a money drain to the Neue Fische scam to bleed money from the employment office.So Highlights. DON'T PAY WITH YOUR OWN MONEY, DON'T EXPECT A JOB. Either do a university degree or some cheap online courses.

I completed the bootcamp a couple of weeks ago and I found it super helpful and a good starting point to change your professional path into the direction of everything to do with data science. Will you know everything about data science after only 3 month? No, of course not, but you get a solid foundation and be able to build on that within your next role. And I'm still impressed what I learned and achieved in this relatively short amount of time.If you are worried about if it is too much or you need to know a lot about statistics, as I was a bit: yes, it is a lot, and it definitely helps if you have a background in natural science or similar, like a field that uses statistical methods. Also it helps if you used UNIX before. And yes, the bootcamp is intense, but it can be done. You get a lot of support from the coaches, you just have to ask. They are super friendly and take the time to find solutions and are also willing to change the approach even during the bootcamp if you just let them know. For us, sometimes we felt a bit overwhelmed, but the learning by doing approach that is practiced during the course is good. Also, you have all of your fellow bootcamp students to talk to and (at least in my team) everyone was helpful and we had a great atmosphere. It helped that people came from different backgrounds in my opinion, and I was sad that during the pandemic we only met remote.The bootcamp also helped me to get the position that I wanted. Luckily, I was able to do the course via the unemployment agency, otherwise it would have been too expensive for me. So, in summary, for me, it was definitely worth the work and the time that I invested and I would do it again.

The year 2020 will be remembered for many reason, I would remember it for the best decision that I took to attend data scientist bootcamp at Neuefische GmbH, it was very challenging and teaching staff were very friendly and helpful. I would definitely recommend any one who likes to be a future data scientist to choose neuefische

Instructors and the CohortI participated the data science boot camp in a group of 16 participants. After my studies 3 years earlier I did not expect it to be that hard. After the first week we knew why it is called a boot camp. The instructors did a great job in shaping the environment of the group so that it was a collaborative experience. The predominant driver of this boot camp is peer pressure - but not in a competitive fashion. The instructors gave us the feeling that we are in this together and that together we are stronger. Every attendee had some tasks from time to time and none would want to let the group down.Learning ScopeThe scope is quite large. The order of the course has a well designed structure. The course is focused on programming labs.We had 2 one week projects and a 4 week capstone project in the end. These projects helped a lot in training through repetition without feeling like repetition. I have the small critique that deep learning could be more fleshed out and I would have liked to learn something about reinforcement learning.Job AssistanceWe had various job sessions with advice for an entry into the field of data science or IT in general. Neue fische also works with partners that seek for applicants. From time to time those partners introduce themselves to the cohort. In general neue fische encourages networking. We graduated amidst the corona crisis and I personally have some trouble finding a job at the moment, but I am positive since the field in general is growing.