Centriq Training

I attended the fullstack web developer track at Centriq Training. My experience there honestly changed my life. From day one of the track, you are learning. It is a fast paced, full immersion experience. However, if you are willing to invest the time... Read More and effort, you will be successful. The instructors are amazing. They were all really invested in the success of their students. You are able to schedule individual mentoring sessions with instructors if there is a concept that you are struggling with. Also, pretty much all of them were around both before and after class to answer any questions students had. Throughout the track, they provide career preparation training which if you follow through with helps you stand out as a job candidate. They also have many local companies that hire (almost) exclusively from their track and reach out to them with new job opportunities which Centriq pushes out to current students. They also have continued career support after graduation. When companies reach out with jobs that require more experience, Centriq pushes those opportunities out to their alumni. Overall, I can't recommend this program enough. I had multiple job offers within weeks of graduating and continually increased my salary over the course a few years.

Most of the instructors were knowledgeable and helpful. The cost is high at $22K. There is a lot of information to learn. Unless you work part time or are unemployed, it is hard to grasp and retain concepts and work on homework projects--keeping up is... Read More difficult for those who work and have a family. You will be exposed to C#, HTML, CSS, some JavaScript and jQuery, ASP.NET, web forms, and SQL. There is a final project that all students do and then the project is presented to students, teachers, and potential employers. All students do the same final project. If you want to set yourself apart from the others, try creating some projects on your own, separate from the ones the school gives you to do. If you have prior experience in programming, bootcamp should be easier. For those with no experence, I do not recommend this as a way to learn about programming, or at least spend some time on free courses like Codecademy to see if this is something you want to do and invest time and money to learn. You get a certificate from the bootcamp school, but I'm not sure if employers put much stock in a certificate. If you can show an employer that you know what you are doing and do not need handholding as an entry level developer, that will help set you apart. Make sure you ask a lot of questions like how many students get jobs, how long did they stay in their first job, what is the average salary offered to your students, did you follow-up with employers to see if they were please with the level of knowledge your students got from the program, do employers value a certificate from your school (is it worth something because of the knowledge you gained by going to their school). Check to see if there are complaints about the school. You may want to check with employers in your area to see if they have heard of the school, if they have hired any of the school's graduates, are they please with their knowledge and performance, would they hire more graduates, etc. If I had to do it over again, I would have saved my money and spent some time learning on my own. Once I hit a wall, I would have put the time to get a degree in the field. There is no substitute for time and experience and 4-6 months of boot camp schooling will not give you the depth of knowledge, unless you have prior experience with programming and want to add to your current knowledge base.