Academia de Código

I really like the spirit of the school and also the teachers where the best i could ask for. The 14 weeks of bootcamp are very intense, challenging and we really need to study every single day. There where days when i felt frustrated but also days that... Read More i felt very very happy.

What I got is What I paid for, an intense programming bootcamp, with a very good curriculum, after learning to program in java and in Javascript proficiently, all the tools I have today are all I need to program anywhere and with anyone and the friendships... Read More I made here will last forever, and for that alone I am thankful...

Overall, the bootcamp is a good experience, but we end up learning more from our peers than from the trainers. Trainers who don't even have a training course. We are in a room with 5 trainers, but only 2 help at a time without apparent justification.... Read More The conditions of the room are okay for a work environment but I expected more comfort considering the investment. As I mentioned, we end up learning and clearly making significant progress to enter the programming world, but that is because the class is all working towards the same goal, helping each other and showing various ways to approach the topics. The training plan, although structured, is not adapted to support people who start falling behind in the material.

Taking part in this Bootcamp is guaranteed to be a fruitful and rewarding experience. You will be offered many unique opportunities and stimulating tasks for deepest immersion into multiple dimensions of full-stack development. The short length also contributes... Read More to a highly concentrated and outcome-oriented learning process. You will quickly acquire new knowledge and skills and apply them to hands-on tasks to deepen your knowledge and gain practical experience. After completing the bootcamp, you will gain a profound insight into full-stack development and be capable of performing professional tasks.

In general it is expensive, it's 6500euros. But it gives you a good knowledge base in a very short time (3 months). The staff is also very supportive and cares for you, they try to push you where they know you're not good. In general it's a good experience... Read More albeit very hardous. It is not easy, it is challenging, and sometimes very rushed because there's alot to learn. The people that may have a hard time are shy people in my honest opinion, but those people will have to make an effort to come out of their shell and their comfort zone and interact with others, connect, network, go to codebreaks. That will also make your journey worth it and easier, programming is also about teamwork, and they really focus greatly on that.

I'm a former student, and I wouldn't recommend Academia de Código, also known as code_for_All, for career change. It's better to check out other online bootcamps that have better programs and work with companies. The three-month course goes by fast, but... Read More you don't learn much, and in the end, you're on your own. The 98% job placement rate they talk about isn't based on current data. They call themselves "Coders" and claim they can teach you complex programming in just three months. They say you don't need to know everything because companies will teach you later. But teaching something like algorithm theory in just a day and a half seems too rushed. The teachers, who used to be students themselves, aren't very good at teaching. They don't like it when you ask too many questions or have different opinions. It's disappointing to see them remove students who don't agree with them. The people who give career advice don't seem to understand what's happening in the job market. Instead of helping, they blame you for not doing things right in short, unhelpful calls. Some students get picked for advanced courses like AWS, but it seems like they're chosen unfairly. Not everyone gets the same opportunities, even though everyone pays a lot of money. What a waste of money!

I don't even want to believe the ecstatic comments I read here. It's unbelievable how some people, even after realising how things worked (very poorly) throughout the bootcamp, come here to say that it was a wonderful and life changing experience (Only... Read More if they are talking about their wallets, which are 7000 euros less). It only leads me to believe that the brainwashing was very well done. I only have one advice to you all... Please don't choose this bootcamp. For your health and especially for your wallet. You won't learn anything here and when you start having difficulties and not being able to keep up, you will be left behind alone with yourself, and believe me, you will have a lot of difficulties during the bootcamp... You can't imagine how desperate it is to realize that things are not going well and have no one to support and help you. Please be your own friend and be well informed before choosing a school that can truly teach and support you. Think wisely.

Your most important requirement: Be cool or get lost During classes you're highly pressured to be super happy and be the coolest guy/girl of all times. This results in you feeling that you've been placed in the same group of the top comedians of Portugal,... Read More but the reality is that either people are faking due to the pressure to be like that or either they are high. On friday afternoons most probably they are both and also drunk. In the tests prior to your admittance to the 14 week course they tell you explicitly that they're also screening your coolness, which if you fail you're out. That's the first warning, if you're a reserved or shy person (and can fake it in the initial screening tests) you'll feel yourself completely like a fish out of water, getting frustrated for being forced to be something/someone you aren't every single day. Overcrowded classes. Classes are overcrowded and incredibly noisy. You just can't concentrate/focus on the subject being given. It's amazing that people spend 8000€ on an intensive course and behave like they're forced to attend some free course and have zero consideration for their peers. So many times it seems the class is totally out of control, what a mess! It's not uncommon for on of the top so called Jedis (supposedly top teachers) to burnout and disappear at half course never to be seen again, there's no backup, leaving the remainder of the course to be dealt by the less experienced teachers, the "Padawans". Another what a mess! Zero documentation If you thing at some point they'll provide you any documentation of the slides they present to you during classes, you're so wrong! Either you get organized and take screenshots of all the slides, be prepared in advance to do data scrapping to save it, or wait until one of your peers do it for you and pass it to you. You can even google it to find those same slides somewhere published for free on the web. It'll save you 8000€. Once you have that "documentation" you'll find out that it's good only for nothing except attending the classes, being completely useless as support in your future career. Speed and abandonment In the first two or three weeks the teaching in so slow paced that it makes you despair, then suddenly they step full on the gas pedal and you just can't keep up with it. In the end of each class the "teachers" tell you to solve a problem and literally abandon the class to solve it, not being uncommon being completely clueless, being half the class with no choice other than take some indian guys classes on youtube to try to even try to understand what is being asked to be done. The other half just goes home to do the same but in a more calm environment. Some outliers, revolted with the situation, prefer even to play online games and scream intentionally to disturb the people who try to do something. Job procurement This part is the biggest joke. You're on your own, there's no job procurement. There's the class to teach you how to enhance your Linkedin and the job and basically that's it. I consider this class the most important in the whole course as it indeed improved my visibility If you're lucky, you're placed in the batch of students to have an interview with Deloitte even before the course ends and you think "well, it's starting better than expected" but then you find out that Deloitte pays Academia de Código for the privilege of screening on firsthand the next batch of cheap labor. After you get the interview you find out that their main goal is to hire the potentially cheapest guys out there, not the best. You'll soon find out why such a big company has zero talent retention capacity after one year. From the part of Academia de Código, now being rebranded as Code For All, their main concern from their former students is for them to leave a good review so other fools fall for it. Final thoughts Finding a job is totally up to you. If you think that you enter this course to get some help in being hired, you're wrong. Their 98% chance of being hired is totally bogus, they just take that number out of their magician's hat. The course content is really poor and their teaching method is ridiculous, you wont learn nothing there, and if you think you can enhance your current knowledge, you'll leave it even more confused and lost than you were before. I've spent 8000€ on this and not even if I attended 4 courses I would not see where those 8000€ were spent on. It weren't spent on you, that's for sure! But not all was totally completely bad in these 14 weeks! You can make some friends who shared with you the same pains in those lost 14 weeks (and 8000€ not in your pocket anymore) and in the last day you have one free pizza during the Hackaton, the only free thing they'll ever give you! Before I chose Academia de Código I also investigated the reviews, and as with so many other stuff, when something is too good to be true, it's really too good to be true. You've been warned. Think twice and check eg. 42 Lisboa. At least it's completely free and if it happens to not fit your needs you can simply jump out without the feeling of being ripped off! It's funny that even charging 8000€ per student and having loads of people coming in and multiplying new rooms for the classes simultaneously, they are still broke and annoy us with emails begging us for more money disguised as "crowdfunding to help new students" for the next courses! It makes me think that their change in brand name (and perhaps creating a new company) is a way to run away from their debtors, who knows? You've been warned. Spend wisely your money in something that brings you better return and where you learn really something about developing software.

One of the best experiences that i haver had. All the people involved are very approachable and easy to work with The bootcamp its very intense and in 14-weeks you can really notice what they promise in the bootcamp description. A very positive experience... Read More

*****Best experience in life, with a very professional team, always disposable 24/7 to help and ensure that our most desire and difficulties were overcome. If your wish is a life change, better bet on this bootcamp, because you want be regretted.*****... Read More