Microverse

The pros: - You get what you expect - You get to learn with your fellow students one on one. - There are plenty of resources and guidelines that are provided to help you on your learning journey. - The course duration is short and worth it. - You learn... Read More as you enjoy what you love. The cons. - You should join with a love and passion for software development, without this you'll find it to be a maze.

This is an amazing course, even if you don't have previous experience, it teaches you not only how to code but how to portray yourself professionally, work with others remotely and in a multicultural environment, and teach you how to search for a job.... Read More

I really don't know what I would have done if I haven't found Microverse. I have been looking for where to learn Full-stack development but I couldn't see especially one that offered the kind of services and opportunity offered by Microverse. In Microverse,... Read More I have had the opportunity to meet and network with so many software developers around the world, program and develop projects together. This has allowed me to greatly improve my communication skill and ability to work remote similar to what we will meet out there after the training. Aside from the technical skills that I am currently learning at Microverse; I have also learned communication and leadership skills, how best to peer program, agile methodology in software development, how to lead a retrospect etc. Without any form of doubt, I will gladly recommend Microverse to anyone anytime and any day.

So here is my story. I am Abror and I come from a completely different background. My major at university was finance and I never thought I would become a software engineer. At the very beginning of my journey, I watched some youtube videos where people... Read More shared their stories that learning to code is possible even without taking a degree or going to bootcamps. But, you know what makes a difference when you go to a bootcamp. It is working under deadline, commitment, persistence and of course the program that takes you from 0 to a hero. You grow your networking, learn how to work in a team, develop your professional and soft skills which is really important in most cases at work. And Microverse gave me all of them and I am so excited to have had the opportunity to study at Microverse. I would recommend this school because it is worth your time and hard work. Because, eventually, my hard work paid off and a few days ago I got my first job offer. I am now a backend ruby on rails developer. I can't still believe it)

Props - shows the way how to become a professional developer and leads along with it; - presents a sufficient number of materials and resources for learning, which also provide orientation for self-searching for the necessary; - during the training creates... Read More a real working atmosphere, as if you are already working as a developer for some company, instilling professional skills; - в обучении делает упор на реальных проектах; - teaches not only software development but also the correct presentation of yourself in the relevant social networks, which significantly increases the chances of finding your dream job; - devotes a lot of time to life coaching, which is not only useful but also brings a motivating variety to the learning process; - and finally, it allows people to get the desired education, for whom the main obstacle on this path is the lack of proper finances. Cons - for me, the learning curriculum seemed a little fast, which is more suitable for those who come here with a certain background in programming, however, there is an opportunity to follow a slower path, thanks to the ability to repeat the blocks of the course a certain number of times; - I would also wish that they liberalize the control during the working day, even if it would not be so useful for learning :)

The program is so unique, it enables you to collaborate with people from different cultures, backgrounds and continent's at large. This has broadened my networking. And I like how lessons are systematic, each material that is learnt is built on another. ... Read More The program maybe exhausting Sometimes because there's a lot expected to cover in week, and this is because there's little time for completion for the core curriculum. I feel that maybe the period of learning some material in certain modules can be extended.

I'm writing this review just to warn people not to make my same mistake. When you see those ads about some kind of American online school teaching you how to code and guaranteeing you'll get a job after their course you feel like it's something amazing... Read More and a life-changing opportunity. It is not. Disclaimer: This is my point of view as a student from an European country. Most of the students are from Africa, with lots of language barriers and technical problems. If you're not from a well-developer country, the same thoughts might not apply to you and you might see Microverse as a way out of a bad situation, but I still suggest you make sure that paying back 15.000$, which is a huge amount of money, is worth it for basic education. TL;DR - Don't join Microverse, the education is barely enough to land you a junior position, the cost is absurd compared to the education and help you get, the learning material is all free and public, you don't get that 'Guaranteed job' they talk about and the diversity of students you'll face will cause a bad learning experience because of language barriers. You're better off following good tutorials on YouTube and later on attending a paid upfront specialization course that will help you secure a job way better. I'll start off by saying I'm a lazy person, I didn't go to university and all I have is a high school diploma, but I had a passion for developing software, so I decided I might give it a try. You know, those amazing ads saying that you owe them nothing unless you get a job really sound tempting. At the onboarding, you get some material to go through, mostly basic HTML/CSS and a bit of JS, you get paired with another student and you have to build a project from 'The Odin Project' list of assignments. You have a total of 6 pair-programming projects to finish before getting onboarded, and I have to say I've been either terribly unlucky or this was the normal onboarding process, because all 3 times I've had difficulties even speaking basic English to the other student because of their language, and one student didn't even show up so I had to submit the project all by myself. But this went well and I was excited to start my journey. At the first modules, you get an introduction to very very VERY basic HTML and CSS, literally starting from zero, and have to build a sketch of your portfolio following one of the templates provided, you get to feel what a day at Microverse is like and you get to meet other students. As time passes by, you start realizing there's huge skill gaps between the students, the more you progress the more people will start copying and not caring about learning, ruining the experience of pair programming as they progress just by stealing other people's works. Microverse says they use tools to detect plagiarism among students, but I've had experiences where a student copied my whole project line by line and nothing was done about that, MORE THAN ONCE. The review process is given as a part-time position to students who are more than halfway-through the program, getting paid around 200-300$ per month, based on how many reviews they get, which means many people will just do it for the money and not for improving the other students' experience, resulting in poorly done reviews which let people progress when they shouldn't. By the time you reach the final modules no one really cares about following the activities anymore, the meetings are joined muted with camera off, no one talks about anything, and if there is a pair programming activity, it's usually one side doing most of the job. Before you get onboarded there's tons of promises about career coaches, financial advisors, student success team being there for you and helping you secure a job after you 'graduate', but I found out that as soon as I finished the program, all you get is a list of websites where you should look for a job on (Most of them requiring higher seniorities as they're remote positions) and that's it. They literally tell you 'Now go look for a job' and that's it. No offers as soon as you finish, no interviews setup already, nothing. Their promise of "We'll help you land a job" is just translated into a weekly call with a career coach that does nothing but rush through the available 30 mins for the session (For 4-5 students, not just one) asking about how job search is going, that's it. The most effort I've seen from the team at helping you land a job is a Huntr board where they say they have a curated list of job offers that could interest you, handpicked by the staff. What I found on that board, though, is a list of job offers where 80% of them wasn't even related to coding, and many of them weren't even remote. From the 20% job offers related to coding, they were mostly senior positions. They even had the guts to add a job listing as an auto sales person at a dealership in the US, which I find ridiculous and it just shows how 'handpicked' those job offers really are. Don't expect the certificates or graduation you get from Microverse to mean anything to your future job interviewer, they always tro to make you leverage the fact that you've attended an online school and coded for over 10,000 hours while also doing pair programming and attending curriculum activites, but the education you get from Microverse is really basic, barely enough to land you a junior level job, that's why a lot of students will spend many more months sharpening their skills before they can actually find a position. I'll end saying that I succesfully landed a job after Microverse, but it wasn't thanks to Microverse, not at all, I didn't get any support from them, and I feel like having to pay 15.000$ back is a robbery because of how bad my experience was with this course, when I could've paid less for better courses with more serious students.

Joining Microverse is one of the big decisions I made and which I am proud of. Before joining the program I was most interested in related Electrical Technologies, but now I see my career be changing from Electrical engineering to a Good Full-Stack developer.... Read More There are many things I appreciate about Microverse like the curriculum, the organization, the application process, the way we study without teachers and this makes you good to read much documentation and learn yourself,... But the most important things you gain from Microverse are: - Pair-programming because we code with international remote developers from around the world. - Effective communication and collaboration by using Zoom and Slack every day for more than hours. - Team-working and problems solving from soft skills we learned and apply them when coding. The other thing I can add is that when studying you don't need to pay anything until you completed the curriculum and get a job where you gain more than $1k per month. So, if you are interested in programming I can suggest you enroll in Microverse. It is one of the best Bootcamps in the world and on my side, it is the best one for all I tried before. For more information, use this link: https://www.microverse.org

Joining Microverse from a very different(medical) background was quite tough. However, with the structure that was put in place by Microverse, I was able to successfully go from being someone with just HTML/CSS knowledge to a full-stack software developer.... Read More I am forever grateful to everyone at the school who has put in or is putting in efforts to change the lives of tech enthusiasts around the world. If you're reading this and you're contemplating making a decision on which BootCamp to attend, don't think too much. I promise you that one thing you won't get from joining Microverse is REGRET. It's absolutely worth every second.

I was skeptical at first whether Microverse is a good fit for me. When I started the first module I knew it was worth it. 1) You Learn everything you need, to become an excellent Full stack web developer. Well you might say that several other resources... Read More offer that, then continue reading. 2) You get to meet amazing people and build a great network. 3) You build solid soft skills like communications, leadership, mentoring, pair-programming and many others. 4) You'll have a career coach for life 5) If your goal is to land a job, Microverse is the best place to go. You'll definitely find a job.