Irvine ASP.Net // C# Full Stack With React

At Sabio, you will make many mistakes but their curriculum is designed to help you learn from those mistakes. Software Engineering is not easy and learning it in the conventional way is not very helpful. At Sabio, instead of sitting through long lectures aimed at the lowest-common-denominator, you are given a series of videos and tasks to complete with help from instructors when you need it. This style of learning is conducive to real growth because learning is best done when you try on your own and then get help when you need as opposed to having someone hold your hand through the entire process without giving you a chance to fail. I found myself learning at an incredible pace and was able to keep myself motivated because I always had a task ready for me without needing approval to go ahead and start it. The curriculum teaches you the very basics of software development and then ramps up the difficulty quickly but never to the point where you feel stuck. The instructors are always willing to help you through your problems and especially when you're transitioning from the various languages and frameworks in the course. At the end of it, you are able to work as a complete full-stack developer and the feeling is powerful. The assessments are hard but fair and as long as you're sticking with the course and utilize the instructors when you need it, you should be fine. One of the best benefits of this course is the post-course alumni help and job-hunting. I was amazed at how often I would get help from instructors, alumni, and peers for job hunting, resume work, and even post-graduation lessons and courses. The Sabio community is very active and the help they provide is incredible. I am forever blessed that I get to be a part of this community and I hope to contribute to it as much as I've gotten from it one day. 

Overall View:Overall you're expected to work individually on videos that are uploaded to their website. There is no "in-person" location, it's just an office and zero faculty. You're expected to watch videos and write code from ~8/9am - 8/9pm. The day-to-day usually involves an absurd amount of meetings about various things (interviews of past attendees, finished products from graduating cohorts, lessons, etc). You get a 1 hour lunch break and (expectedly) a 1 hour dinner break. There is also an expectation that you code a minimum of 2 hours a day and a minimum of ~25hours per week. The instructors can check up on you at any time during the day to ensure that you're at your computer and will give you a notice of "academic probation" if you don't show.The Tests:You will not be given an exact schedule of when you test. You could be told (from my experience), 4 days prior or even 2 days prior that you'll have a test. There are no defined expectations of what is passing or failing, it's entirely decided by the instructors. Our cohort asked for additional information and clarification on what we should be studying for and where we should be as far as progress goes. They also do not describe what is failing the course and what is passing the course. You could fail 3 tests and be fine, or you could fail 1 and be kicked out. They don't tell you because it's easier on them to not say.The Queue:They expect you to check in once a day and ask a question. The owner of the business is very lenient on his instructors when it comes to being strict on the students. There are absolutely amazing staff that help you through (what feels like) the most difficult problems. There are also staff which can be extremely judgmental and demanding, they will not accept input from students and will carry on. While required to show up to the queue at least once a day, they can close the queue without notice. You will not be given a schedule of when it's open and closed, you will not be given an exact time the queue closes for the day, and you will not be told the wait time. There were some students that had to wait 1-2 hours, and that's extremely frustrating when you have several questions throughout the day. There are times I've waited 5 minutes.  Standup:Usually a simple "What did you do?", "What will you do today?", "Is there anything blocking you?". Some instructors don't care, some care a tremendous amount. The purpose is to prepare you for standups that occur outside of the training environment. The reality is thatThe Videos:This one is much harder to critique. Gregorio had a wonderful vision for what he wanted his students to achieve. As a whole, the videos simplify a complicated topic and make you look wonderful when you exit Sabio. Unfortunately, there are some missing pieces as far as concepts go. If you're someone who needs to understand the "why" behind things, you often time will not get it. The retort you get for bringing this up is "Just go to the queue, that's what it's for." It'd be helpful, as this is an accelerated program, to not have to wait up to 1 hour for my question to be answered. My Message To Sabio:I'd advise a way to give anonymous input to help give your students a voice. It is extremely frustrating and difficult to try to help improve the program from a student's point of view if you're not being heard. We want the program to work too, we've signed up for it and many of us have paid money for it.The queue can be improved, it'd be nice to see something added where we can see how many students are ahead of us and how many faculty are answering queues at that time.I had no idea which staff member was for what. It'd be nice to know who I talk to for which types of concerns and why. A simple PDF with names and the ways the staff may be involved with the students would be helpful.A schedule. As someone who likes to prepare and have a good outlook on the program, I had no idea where we were going and why. It'd be nice to see a simple (very generalized) schedule. It doesn't have to be exact week-by-week, it could just be an ideal outlook of the 17 week program.Some of the videos need to be reshot because there are things that instructors say are incorrect or that instructors need to clarify. Having links to the finished code (heck, make it so I can't copy and paste it, just a screenshot would be nice) so I could compare it with my own would be wonderful. There are concepts that needed further reading, a simple link that describes them more would be excellent. It seems as though the front half of the 17 week program did that, but the later half didn't as much.The owner admitted he has dyslexia, can someone spell check him in his website?

I graduated back in 2018 C45! and was full of doubt. What if I am wasting 15K? what if i don't find a job after? what if i come of of this learning nothing? Well i didn't waste 15k, i did find a job after and i did learn a lot. Sabio prepared me for this current work environment and i was surrounded by a great group of friends (a handful of whom i still speak to) and an amazing teacher. Of course you get what you put in (i was coding almost 12-15 hours a day because i sucked) but Sabio made this environment possible and i had great support. i am currently on my second job and making a lot more money than when i was teaching. if you have the drive, time and passion, this is the direction you should consider.

Sabio is a well oiled machine. Everything is perfectly crafted to make it seem like an amazing bootcamp and they celebrate their graduates and give them job opportunities to obligate the graduate to them. Let me start with my experience.I utilized my VETTEC benefits. Out of the initial 33 VETTEC students we started with, only 9 VETTEC students graduated. The class started around 80 and ended around 30 ppl in total. Over all, my experience was okay. If I could redo it, I would still stay in the program because I ended up with a nice developer job about 3 months after I graduated. Here are the pros and cons from my experience.Pros: - Teaches you how to get a job- LinkedIn and Resume training generally works- Interview Prep questions are spot on- Real job on resume with referencesCons:- Quick to put vets on academic probation- Most instructors have no job experience and go straight from bootcamp grads to instructor and certain instructors are very condescending- Q time is unreasonably long- Unfair standards for vettecI made it through with only a few academic probations which were, in my opinion, only given because I was VETTEC. Our whole class had a technical difficulty that affected our coding times but only the VETTEC students were put on academic probation. Attendance policy was much more strict for vets. That being said, it worked for me and I am grateful for it. I did see people get kicked out for ridiculous reasons, most of them were VETTEC. Personal days, technical issues, and health issues were all reasons to kick a vet out. Also most of the instructors have no real job experience and are instructors. They also employ keynote graduates to do things like promote and review Sabio. THe weirdest thing is that they have an apprenticeship program for Argentinians where they enroll in the course, graduate, and become instructors. So alot of your instructors are Argentinian college grads. This wouldnt be bad but on their website they proudly say "industry expert instructors" when really they are foreign college grads and Sabio grads.At the end of the day, Sabio worked for me. The product dev section that allows you to put a real start up company on your resume is the absolute best part of this camp. I also found that their mentorship and job support is really good. If you want to do this program and ignore the fake positive reviews and outraged failed students, I think you should. Just understand that there is some shady stuff with this company and be prepared to look past things that you may disagree with. Everyone I know who brought up a complaint about Sabio to Gregorio was kicked out. If you are prepared to keep your head down and understand that this bootcamp will teach you how to get a job, not how to code, then I recommend it. I would not change a thing about what I did. Have a clear head, don't quit, and keep your head down.