Flatiron School

I found an ad for Flatiron School's bootcamp prep and thought I would give it a try. My background in university was philosophy, and I figured there would be a lot in common with symbolic logic, which is something I really enjoyed in school. Finding Bootcamp Prep may be the single greatest thing I ever stumbled upon. It taught me the basics in Ruby and Javascript, did a really thorough job of explaining concepts and taking things at a pace that is really helpful to learning; but most importantly, it helped me discover the joys of coding and opened up the door to a career I'd never thought I'd be pursuing. I'm happy to say, after Bootcamp Prep, I will now be attending Flatiron School fulltime over the next 3.5 months before embarking onto an awesome new career. Thanks, Flatiron School.

Coding bootcamps have been getting a lot of attention recently for touting high median salaries after a (relatively) short period of study. I can't speak for all bootcamps but I can say that Flatiron lives up to the hype. Learning to code from a non-technical background is difficult, but teaching yourself how to do it increases that difficulty exponentially. I learned more in my first month at Flatiron than I did in six months teaching myself. The community, the curriculum, the pressure, all of it combines in a perfect storm to drive you to do your best.

-The instructors and staff here are fantastic. Supportive doesn't even begin to cover it, but the feeling of inclusion and community made what is a very difficult curriculum, fun.

-The students. I don't know how, but the Flatiron admissions staff must be magic because almost all of the students here are great people. Being a part of a group of such diligent, creative, sociable people inspired me to do so much more than I thought possible.

-The curriculum. It's not for everyone, it's incredibly hard. That being said, if you got accepted, chances are you can do it. It doesn't cover everything you should know but considering the time constraints of the immersive, the curriculum makes sense. You should expect to always be learning outside the classroom. This isn't like college where you show up for tests and hand in all the homework at the end of the semester.

-The campus. If you have a chance to apply to the immersive, I highly recommend checking out the campus. It's conducive to getting work done, while also having all the bells and whistles to keep it fun and a good place to hang out. There's also tons of meetups/activities/guest speakers/meditation workshops etc... There's never a shortage of things to keep you busy.

In conclusion. As I mentioned, it's not for everyone. But it really is what you make of it. It will probably be the hardest couple of months you've ever experienced, but you'll get to reap those benefits for the rest of your life as you begin a career in this dynamic industry. Also you'll probably meet a bunch of the coolest people in NYC.

I attended Flatiron School's iOS Development Course, and I can vouch for it being an amazing program.

The course leads you through the basics of coding through the complexities of app development. You'll learn enough to make your own first app, and you'll have the knowedge to qualify for your first job as an app developer. By the end of the program, 90% of the students were working or had finished building their first iPhone app.

As far as the instructors, they're great. They're knowledgable and attentive, and they'll be your mentors as well as your friends. The operations staff are great too, providing an atmosphere that fosters teamwork and communal learning. The students I attended with were great. I became friends with each and every one of them, and still keep in touch with many. The whole atmosphere is overwhelmingly positive.

The cirriculum is tough, but coding is tough. You're going to be lost a lot. You're going to complain to your classmates about how this assignment is impossible. You're going to vent to your friends and your significant other. Then you're going to get your program working and it's an amazing feeling.

At the end of your course your are assigned a career coach, who is there to help you get a job. My coach was very attentive and helpful. Within two months of graduation I was employed full time at a great company as a Mobile App developer. The first interview I had with my current company was organized by Flatiron, and my career coach aided me through the interview process. I'm a bit of an outlier to have landed a steady job so quickly, but not a totally unique case.

If you're thinking about attending, know this:

This is not the place to go if you're looking to have a career handed to you on a platter. If you're not ready to put your life on hold for 3 months while you learn to code, then you should wait to find a time that you are.

The payoff for this course has a direct relationship to the amount you put into it. If you leave every day at 6pm and go home and not code, you're not going to get your money's worth. But if you stay up late working on class projects, start work on your own personal app, spend as much time as you can asking the instructors questions, take advantage of Flatiron organized events, then you will thrive here and you will land that job you've been waiting for. The instructors, the operations team, and the managment will all try to get and keep you inspired, and they're here to help at every turn, but the work is up to you.

I was a personal trainer and hustling to make ends meet. I took my business online and I was more interested in how the technologies worked I was using so I decided to learn to program.I started with the book Dummies for Programming and continued to do free online tutorials like W3schools, codeschool, and codecademy. Learning the basics of HTML, CSS, and Javascript is a great start!

I decided to go to the Flatiron Jump Start weekend where basics are explained more in-depth and you get to apply HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Bootstrap in a 2-day workshop. The Jump Start price can be applied to their enrollment AND there are scholarships available. It is important you research what bootcamp you would want to go to. Who's to say a review on this website doesn't take anyone to write. I talked to a couple different ones and decided Learn Academy was going to be the best fit for me since they are heavily involved in the tech community and there is an internship INCLUDED in their program!

Going to a bootcamp honestly changed my life for the better--it started me on a path to a new career where the pay and quality of life is way better. I'm more engaged in my work and I get to BUILD things that are making a difference in the world. I made a lot of friends in my cohort and continue to meet fellow professionals through Learn's alumni network and local tech meetups. Every interview I went on as I was looking for work was at the recommendation of Learn's outreach coordinator, and I continue to talk to my mentors from school when I'm blocked on a coding problem or need career advice.

I enrolled in the Bootcamp Prep Course in order to prepare for the technical interview portion for the Software Engineering Immersive admissions process at Flatiron School. The lessons were clearly laid out and easy to understand. There was also a ton of support available to me that I utilized, both from fellow learners, as well as Flatiron staff. The lessons and labs directly corelated to the types of labs that were presented to me for the technical interview and I am positive they were the key to my success in the technical interview. It also provided me with a good idea about whether or not the Flatiron School was right for me and something I wanted to pursue further. 

 

I highly recommend taking this course before completing the technical interview. 

Before deciding to apply to the Flatiron School's full time NYC program, I took the boot camp prep course online.

It far exceeded my expecations. It was a challenging progression that did a great job of teaching me different things I could do with Javascript. Its better than any other tutorial or free course I've explored online.

Some of the other courses are show-and-tells where you complete an exercise, think you know something, and move on, regardless of if you learned anything. Flatiron really made me think about what I had to code and what tools I would have to use to solve the problem. The course gave me a great sense of why certain problems are approached certain ways.

Additionally, the read along lessons had well written, practical analogies and even made me lol a few times. It was enjoyable and educational. 

The Bootcamp Prepcourse is definitely worth doing.

I discovered a passion for coding and set my mind to getting into a coding bootcamp. Flatiron was my first choice. I was drawn to Flatiron not only because of the glaring reviews I came across about the quality of the education provided, but also, and foremost, because of its values of passion, creativity, collegiality, positivity, self-development. These values really resonate to me and I felt like I could fit in well. So I applied for the immersive program and started working dilligently on the Bootcamp prep. 

The Bootcamp prep is awesome and totally free! It goes through the fundamentals of Javascript and Ruby, and tests your knowledge with labs that become progressively harder to solve. One of these labs is the basis of the technical interview that an applicant has to pass to be accepted into a class. I loved the labs, even the hard ones. I got totally obsessed with trying to solve them and if felt sooo good when I did. They are like small logic puzzles so if you're the type of person who enjoys solving puzzles or logic problems, you'll prob get hooked as well.

I was also very impressed with the instrustors. I got stuck a few times and there is someone available to help untill 1am. Everyone I spoke with was super nice, helpful and direct (including the admissions and accounting staff, which says a lot about the culture at Flatiron IMO). 

I ended up getting accepted into the immersive program which I'll start in April (yay!). If you want to get into a coding bootcamp, I'd definitely recommend doing Flatiron's prep course. Great quality, access to instructors, the community and resources (such as GIT) and totally free!

The Flatiron School over delivered on their promise of teaching relevant coding skills and job placement. I found out about the Web Development program through a friend who had graduated from the Flatiron School and was now thriving as a developer at an early stage start up. I have since recommended the school as the best option available to anyone I meet seeking to begin a career as a programmer.

My instructor, Steven Nunez, was one of the most engaging teachers I have had at any level. His relentless commitment to his students and his empowering teaching methods have helped me continue on a path of exponential learning.

5 Stars! 

 

I began my studies at the Flatiron School in 2014 in the web development program.  I had very little code experiencing but I knew that this was a career path I wanted to take. I spent many years in retail as a buyer/merchandise planner but was getting bored with my career.  After considerable thought I decided to just leave my job and embark on this journey and I have never looked back.  

Flatiron was warm welcoming environment, they provided me a solid coding foundation, gave me the confidence to write blogs, prepared me to speak intelligently about coding, allowed me to create really cool apps and meet some great new friends.  The part that was most appealing about Flatiron school was that they promised to find me a job upon graduation.  I was nervous but withing 4 weeks of graduating, they held up their end of the bargain and landed me a job.  I now work as a Front End Developer and everyday I get to enjoy the work that I do and the people I work with.  None of this would have happened if it were not for the Flatirons School.  

Attending Flatiron School’s iOS Immersive Program was bar-none, one of the most life-changing decisions of my life. 

Coming from a non-technical background, I’d always seen apps has “magic,” in the sense that, you downloaded it, and it just…worked. So the idea of making apps as a career was beyond daunting, but with the guidance and support of the fantastic instructors, classmates, and staff at Flatiron — the overall experience was enlightening and fulfilling.

The course isn’t easy, and it isn’t meant to be, so if you’re thinking of signing up on a whim without any real motivations — you will not get out of the program everything you can. But if you put in the time, the effort, the blood, sweat, and tears, you’ll leave the course with an almost fundamental shift in your thinking (how to think like a program-solver).

No programming bootcamp is the be-all end-all destination for aspiring developers and I’d be wary of any program that claims to be. Don’t get me wrong — Flatiron can, and will teach you all the fundamental basics of iOS development, but that is only the first stepping stone on a path that leads off into the distance.

The greatest gift from Flatiron was instilling and nurturing my passion for creation and problem solving, and more importantly, the means by which I could continue that trend on my own. The Flatiron School teaches you the how, and it’s up to you to discover the why. 

Post-graduation, I got an internship turned full-time and for the first time in my life, I can’t wait to go to work every morning.

I completed the Ruby Bootcamp at the Flatiron School.  This was one of the most intense, memorable, and transformative experience of my life.  The fact that I have now mostly switched from Ruby to using full-stack JavaScript but can still apply what I learned in this program is a great testament to the high quality of the program.  While we on one level were learning the Ruby programming language (and then, once we had that foundation in place, building web apps with Rails), the real goal was to teach how to think and works as a software engineer.  For example, one of my favorite activities we did early on, was to try to explain to an alien in pure logical form how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  This might sound silly, but in fact, the exercise is highly instructive of the process of writing code.  Another important learning experience was that of learning how to collaborate with other developers.  Inter-personal skills may not seem like something one would associate with coding, but it is in fact an absolutely essential skill.  In terms of cons of the program, it was probably a bit on the high end in terms of cost, and it is not possible to deduct the tuition on your taxes (I tried) but at the end of the day, this program was worth every penny.  Oh, and one last thing, after you've completed the program, you will receive the most amazing support in helping you find a job.  The Flatiron School is highly connected in the industry and will be able to connect you with numerous companies and opportunities. 

I attended Flatiron School as part of the school's partnership with NYC Talent Pipeline, which offered a full scholarship to underemployed/unemployed NYC residents (BK00 in the house).    My experience at Flatiron School was extremely challenging (get ready to learn at an intense pace) but the reward has been tremendous. Not just in terms of job opportunities but friendships forged with really smart and compassionate people. If you are considering a non-traditional path to a career in software development, I would encourage you to apply to FIS.    PS: Shoutout to Jackie, Kevin, and Joe who together make the career service team AMAZING. These folks will HUSTLE for you and will ensure you get a good job post-graduation. You still have to carry your weight eg:  updating portfolio, following-up with folks they introduce you to, etc.

I’m a recent graduate from Flatiron’s iOS Development course. I came into the program with zero programming knowledge and determined to change my career. Flatiron’s education was crucial in my future success as a software developer. At Flatiron I learned to develop applications with a team and individually. I currently have two applications in the app store, and developing my third app as an iOS Developer freelancer.

Flatiron has build an environment where creativity and learning is at the forefront of every activity. This energy to learn is felt throughout the halls, common rooms, and class rooms. Learning to code is hard, it requires 100% commitment to the program and an amazing team of teachers / educators.  At Flatiron you will not only learn to code with the latest programming languages and techniques, you will also learn to think critically, to solve complex problems by breaking down complexity. You will learn how to continue to educate yourself after the program—technology is an ever growing field and to stay current you must keep up with it.

During my time at Flatiron, I have had the fastest personal growth in the shortest time.

Thank you to the entire team at Flatiron for all of the hard work you do to make us into great developers.

I attended Flatiron School's Learn Verified online web development course from February to October 2016. Overall, it was a great experience! The key difference I noticed between Flatiron and other bootcamps/schools is that Flatiron focuses on building a love and passion for coding while building the necessary skills to make a career switch, not just churning out people to get jobs. 

The instructors were very helpful and the material was clear and concise.  There were some lessons that could have used some improvement and a deeper dive (such as the Angular material near the end) but there was plenty of material and it was written in such a way that made it easy to grasp a lot concepts, even the complex ones. Working on test driven labs was a huge plus for applying the concepts that we learned. The student community is a very active as well - having a community of other learners as well as Learn Experts available on Flatiron's online chat for most of the day to help with coding is a huge benefit too - and it's only improved since I graduated! The post-graduation career support (preparing for interviews, networking, and job referrals) was excellent too.

While the online web development course does require a lot of focus and self discipline (since you work at your own pace), overall I would highly recommend Flatiron School to anyone who wants to learn to love code (as well as make a career switch!).

I was lucky to be in the first Flatiron class and since then the trajectory of my life has been altered in ways I couldn't have imagined. A rewarding career is the minimum students walk away from Flatiron with. The program also provides a supportive community and a transformative experience. As a graduate, I was able to get the job of my choice at Carrot Creative where I had a blast. Since then I've returned to Flatiron School where I work on Learn.co.

I'm proud to call myself a Flatiron School graduate when I see the school continue to push itself to improve with better learning tools and become more accessible via its Fellowship programs.

Simply put, attending Flatiron School was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

The Flatiron School is hands down the best school you could ever choose. Everything about the program beats any other program's offering by far -- from the instructors, course content, the other students, the culture, and more. I know many people that have done other programs and they don't finish nearly as strong of developers as those that have gone through Flatiron's program. Given how well Flatiron prepared me, I'm now running an early stage startup that I've built from foundations I learned there.