Code Fellows

Code Fellows really cares about people learning to code and getting jobs. You as a student do need to put in the effort to get all that Code Fellows has to offer, but that's true of any school. Stay connected to the community and you'll do alright. A... Read More lot of my class mates have good jobs now, and I have several leads, and have felt that I had a realistic shot for getting any of the jobs I've interviewed for. Code Fellows has been really good about supporting me in the job search after graduation, and I'm continuing to learn a lot with the foundational knowledge I got from the course.

In April 2016 I decided to begin the journey of learning to become a developer at Code Fellows, knowing next to nothing about code and only going on reviews I had heard of this school. I had a BA in Mathematics and Russian Language but didn't know what... Read More to do with my degree and was tired of working in restaurants so I signed up. 3 months later I am now well on my way to becoming a full-stack developer having completed the 201, 301 and first half of the 401 Javascript program here at Code Fellows. I have loved the experience of being a student here at Code Fellows. The entire work crew here is all excellent, from the teachers and TA's I work with everyday to the campus directors and support staff. I am very glad that I chose this path and am optimistic about my awaiting career in the near future!

The pace is fast and the work is tiresome but at the end, you truly do feel like you've crammed years worth of learning into just a couple months. The teachers and other staff are always there to help and the co-working space is really helpful, too, and... Read More can support all those late night/overnight work sessions!

Their job placement assistance seems to be quite aggressive, too, and they signed me up with a mentor who's proved very useful for me.

Is highly recommend it!!

Code Fellows was a great fit for me and prepared me really well to enter the web development world, but I would definitely caution that it wouldn't be a fit for everyone. I don't mean to indicate that I am exceptional (because I'm not), but rather to... Read More show that it would be a good idea to visit and see the scene before dropping the large amount of money on tuition. Obviously it takes a lot of hard work to get through a development accelerator and if you're not able to process all the information quick enough you won't get as much out of the experience as you'd like. Secondly, Code Fellows itself is very much a start up and the atmosphere and operations work in that way. There is often not a lot of structure and many things are being figured out as they go along, so if you like a quiet ordered work environment, spending two months and a breakneck pace there is not going to appeal to you. They also put a lot of effort into their career support but I would still categorize that as a work in progress (they may be a little under staffed in this area so if you want their help you'll have to nag them about it a few times). The last thing I would bring up is that two months is not a ton of time, especially since you're in class for only six weeks. You simply won't be able to touch on everything and invariably you'll find that you missed out on something potentially useful and will have to figure it out yourself later on the job. If you are able to be flexible and tune out the distractions, however, the instructors I interacted with were great and definitely put in the time to be available to you for feedback and guidance. Overall I would recommend Code Fellows, but caveat emptor if you're expecting a certain style of education.

The tagline on the Code Fellows website reads "Learn to code. Get a job. Guaranteed." and that's exactly what happened for me.

I attended the first iOS Development Accelerator that Code Fellows offered in September/October of 2013 and it was definitely... Read More one of the best career decisions I've made. The curriculum is challenging but the team was always there to help and was dedicated to helping all along the way. I say "team" rather than just "instructors" because I actually consider the classmates I attended with to be apart of that team as well. Everyone was helpful and encouraged everyone else and even though the course is only a couple of months we all seemed to become fast friends.

From day one you will dive right into the code with excellent instruction and learn by doing. Within the first four weeks I had submitted my first app to the App Store, all the while doing daily homework projects to further grasp Objective-C, Xcode and Cocoa Touch. It's incredible how much happened and how much I learned in such a short amount of time while attending Code Fellows.

After completing the eight-week course I ended up landing my first job in just three weeks. Code Fellows had set me up with a mentor who I met and corresponded with on several occasions. My mentor gave me a ton of insight and tips to succeed and was an extremely valuable resource to have as I went out in search of job. That first job was a short contract assignment but it was a great way to take what I had learned and quickly start applying it in the job world and to help build my resume. After that contract ended I immediately began working as a full time developer for another company and I have been enjoying creating meaningful apps ever since.

I highly recommend Code Fellows to anyone looking to jump into development! It is extremely challenging, exhausting and sometimes overwhelming but the reward is well worth the effort.

Classes and instructors were awesome. Learned more than I thought possible and cutting edge tech and techniques.
However, help with job placement after graduation was severely lacking. While I feel like it should be up to one's self to secure their own... Read More future, a little help beyond resume assistance would have been nice. Sending links from websites offering jobs doesn't count as help. I think they are trying to help a little more now, but am not sure how much more effort they are putting in to helping.

I just finished the Code Fellows iOS bootcamp in November 2013.  The program was really interesting.  First of all, it's INTENSE.  It really pushes you.  At a fast pace.  But that's what the real world is like for many of these jobs.  They picked fantastic teachers to lead the class, though, both who come from outside companies and are very successful on their own.  ... Read MoreYou will build a new app almost every day based on that day's lecture material.  The instructors make themselves available in the afternoon for assistance if you get stuck or need help understanding a topic.  The first half of the bootcamp ends with each student creating their own unique app (thought of themselves), and many of ours were pretty advanced!  The second half of the bootcamp breaks everyone up into teams to produce more complex group projects.  My group project even got a few of the students from the Ruby on Rails bootcamp involved, too, which was going on concurrently, so our app had a back-end that was easy to communicate with.

We had guest speakers each week, the teachers are there for 1-on-1 assistance, and the building itself is made available to you 24/7 and is really conducive to getting things done - kitchen, bathrooms, lounge area and it's really close to stores and restaurants... very easy to spend long stretches of time in that area, and really focus on your tasks at hand.  They provide free breakfasts once a week and free collective lunches once a week, too, where everyone in the building co-mingles.  The startup accelerator Tech Stars is in the same building and the people who work at those startups and other companies in the building are really accessible (e.g. Apptentive, MobileDevHQ, BigDoor).

During the "Gold" half of the course, a lot of time is spent on job preparedness, specifically: we're linked up with personal mentors, a VC firm came in to do mock interviews and provide feedback, and several guest speakers talked about subjects ranging from resume construction to the interview process.  Having graduated, Code Fellows sent my resume to their hiring network and I have already gotten many requests for interviews from top-level, internationally-recognized companies.  I'm not in Seattle at the moment so I haven't been able to solidify anything yet, but from my experience so far I do think the program is very good at preparing you for and helping you obtain a programming job.