Springboard - India

Springboard india job assistance is so weak and frustrated. You work a career coach and your favorite career coach suddenly left and you have to adjust yourself new career coach and story again starts.Sp network is just trash and collaboration among the... Read More alumni is under the required level.If you want to be hired any company look for different boot camp. Beware of Springboard India

I started this Spring board India data science Career track program with broken promises. Before enrolling the school GUARANTEED A FULL TIME JOB OR A FULL REFUND. None of it has happened. The first month was great the easy stuff. The months moving forward... Read More I was assigned about 7 different mentors. Reasons being they did not know data science or they would direct me to google. A lot of times the mentors would complain about the low rate of pay. If they didn't like you or if you did not meet a certain requirement they would again point you to google or say they don't know the subject matter. About 75 % of the Q & A's I registered for were cancelled, no reason was given. The curriculum is outdated and old it is a lot of reading and more reading. The mentors are not experienced at all. They just come to collect a paycheck and update their skills on the expense of the students. The school does not monitor the mentor sessions or the Q & A sessions which are just a waste of time. The slack channel your questions will go unanswered or if they answer it they will shame you and point you to an article on how to ask questions. I was not a professional programmer I was a student looking to learn. This program is not designed for students to be successful. Not a single assignment was graded or was any feedback given. Save yourself the time and money go buy the same course on udemy for $10 bucks. Employers do not look at education they look what can you build. The stuff learned here I was not even able to get a UNPAID internship. spring board is one of the most expensive bootcamps out there. And naturally, I thought it would be one of the best out there. It also had so many good reviews. Now, I think they remove all the bad reviews and just keep the good ones. It is definitely not worth the money they ask. The curriculum is not that great and teachers are fine but pacing is just awful. Also, I can not stress this enough. You can not, You can not learn programming and become developer in few weeks. If you put effort and time, you can get same resources provided by springboard all over internet. Do not go here.

It's been almost one year I'm in the field of data science. Clearly, this course not at all design for working professionals, or I guess for no one who wants to learn Data Science. Content: After spending almost 7 months on the Springboard curriculum... Read More I guess i'm eligible to review this course content as unsatisfactory. I can guarantee this if you only study springboard DSC content, it will lead you nowhere and you won't be able to crack the interview. I had to go to multiple sources to understand the concept after reading what springboard is offering in its course(Data Camp videos and other free content) and slowly I was able to understand there are lots of free tutorials available outside which give more precise and informative content and realized why did I pay close to 2 lakhs for such poorly designed content. Expectations: Being a noob in any field, students seek to get the base ready and then start constructing buildings on top of it. But this course content is nowhere near to create the base for you. Job Guarantee ? It's been 4 months since I've completed the course. Till now I didn't get a single call for an interview. Career support doesn't mean sending job links and ask students to apply. I can do way better on my own. I really feel I've wasted my precious year and hard-earned money. **BIG NO TO THIS COURSE**

I am currently enrolled in Springboard. This program is a complete joke. The curriculum is just a few articles and drills. You have a "mentor" who is supposed to answer questions and help you along the way. My mentor regularly just tells me to google... Read More things. They claim that is the best way to learn. If all I'm doing is googling then why pay them 1.95 lakhs I tried to talk to my program manager who was very unhelpful also. I have been very displeased with this program from day 1. They label themselves as self paced but in fact they have a schedule they want you to keep to and you HAVE TO have meeting a week with your mentor. If you don't finish the program in 6 months you don't the job guarantee so I feel so much pressure to finish on time, when all I wanted was to be able to work at my own pace. Would not recommend this to anyone. You're better off googling and taking free courses online.

Attending this program helped in transition from a different field to Data Science Domain. I am fortunate to had a wonderful mentor who supported me to be successful. I think from curriculum perspective, Springboard needs to work little more. Job search... Read More guidance is helpful but not up to the mark as Expected.

I am a student of the Data Science Career Track course by Springboard, and I’d like to share my view. 1. The content is exhaustive and it is very easy to understand with strong foundations of basics (both Python and Statistics). 2. I’ve had very good... Read More experiences with mentorship and career services. The mentor has been instrumental in my projects portfolio, because of a mentor I’ve had variety to show prospective recruiters and he’s the reason why I’m positive regarding working and studying in this challenging scenario of corona. The career coach has helped me craft a unique job search strategy which is tailor made, and we have worked upon my linkedin profile and my resume. 3. There is a lot of hands on in Python in the form of projects and capstone projects. And here the capstone comes in between the course so that all that which has been learnt can be displayed and there are 3 capstones, others offer 1 and that too at the end of the programme. 4. All projects, capstone projects have the business flavour which can be shown on my profile. 5. Now they offer online classes as well. 6. They provide Job Guarantee even in this scenario where furloughing is at peak. And that is applicable in Delhi NCR, for the profile of my choice. This is very brave according to me. Having said these pros, I would say that nothing happens without self discipline and consistency. The student has to stay committed and make daily progress, that is the key. I would recommend this course, more details here https://india.springboard.com/npf/data_science_course_wpms/?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Brand_Search&utm_adgroup=&utm_creativeid=383462346207&utm_campaignid=6442962918&utm_adgroupid=79716989271&utm_keyword=%2Bspringboard&utm_matchtype=b&utm_device=c&utm_sitelink=%7Bsitelink%7D&gclid=CjwKCAjw_qb3BRAVEiwAvwq6VmSthBrLtRr4QxG-rQSrhI6zU0HaWH-Sm98Gim4tgyz90ncLRtK73BoCzGMQAvD_BwE

I was dejected with the state of online education back in 2018-19 since most of the online resources including certificate courses, audits, diplomas were a bunch of knowledge updating platforms with none of the core realities of getting a job post graduation... Read More or building up practical portfolios with 14+ projects. That's where Springboard helped the most - to build the knowledge, to build a portfolio and to ensure that I landed a job within the realm of data science and analytics. Within the first 3 months of my course, I had received a number of job offers and I started my current job by the 5th month. It was pleasantly surprising that the Career Services team was really dedicated and incentivized to help the learns make a career jump or transition. Finally, having a mentor with whom you could regularly interact and have 1-on-1 sessions was a huge upgrade from other courses. This allowed me to understand the industry a lot better, adopt best practices and learn from their mistakes which would not have been possible otherwise.

Course content are from you-tube and medium which are free in internet and you're going to pay for the Same. Job Accessibly is like they will forward the link from the LinkedIn jobs (you can get that easily if you pay LinkedIn directly) Course Fee is... Read More 1.95lac and they will give in 1.65lac after this you have to pay in emi from propell(Third party). but the Course is not worth of 1.65lac. it could hav been for free the only thing good in the course is their fancy Portal. for more information contact me over linkdlen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bijaykahar/ will you guide you properly. and save your lacs.

I have joined the course 5 months back and this is my experience so far; • Content of the Course: The Data content what I am exploring in the course seems not adding any value to my knowledge. All assignments given are only fill in the blanks. Further... Read More I observed many concepts are repeating in various exercises which are simply dragging the curriculum and which result in losing the interest. When saw many of the study materials, are YouTube links. I can get this material freely even without this course. I understand it is curated content, but I didn't expected the content from YouTube or any of such freely available sources. Somewhere I feel the content does not worth the money Springboard is charging. • Springboard Support & Career Support: Even after 5 months I have completed just 20% of total course. But nobody had approaches asking for or understanding my issues. Once paid money, everyone becomes nowhere. I reported many low ratings in feedbacks, but couldn't get any response from anyone. I am getting a feeling like I am loosing interest in this course due to what I am experiencing. And I must say, Getting extension and pause to the course actually spoiling my intention towards Data science field. That's not a good option as they claim. • Office Hours Experience (Technical Expertise calls) The office hours what are conducted every week doesn't seems to be adding any value to me, as the quality of lectures are not up to the mark. I personally stopped attending the office hours due to disappointment. • My Experience as being from non-programming background: Being from non tech background, I was expecting something which encourages me to go step forward and learn more and more in this field. But this curriculum made me doubt my credibility itself. • One Liner conclusion: I haven't paid this much huge amount for YouTube videos or to loose my interest in this field.

After using the hype of Springboard in USA, SPRINGBOARD managed to get easy start in India. They got many applicants even at a high price point considering many other MOOCs are way cheaper here. But little did we know that we were going into a sea with... Read More no shores. It has been more than a year when they have started functioning in India with a new batch coming in every month. They threw every heavy word to make us see Gold everywhere when there was only rustic iron. A hope brimmed among Data Science aspirants that (as springboard was saying we were among 20% aspirants they selected) we were going to be successful. Even I was told that they will focus more on us as I was among the initial batches. (Note: They didn't even took a puzzle test that they put up on website. They even lied that my prep course will start immediately just for me to make the payment and then no response for few days. Their marketing guy says any lie he/she can to make you sign up.) At first the course seemed good. Many of us were blinded by the shine Springboard was manufacturing. But mist started to clear after a month. It was all curated content from the internet which was not made clear from the start. I let it go. Their main USP was weekly half hour call with the mentor. Here it comes to Luck which mentor a student get. They didn't had much mentors here to use algorithm to match with mentee, so they just matched as they hired a mentor with no particular reason that why we were matched with that expert. The mentor is someone who has Industry experience yet how can they impart such knowledge in half hour in week. Even if they can guide us, are they really prepared for it or going with the flow? Did Springboard gave any training how their course structure is or what they require from mentor to do for mentee? A Big No. It seemed every mentor was handling their mentee as they could. As feedback from many fellow students, some turned out good and some not so. Thus for many it felt like a gamble of a very large amount. Due to ambition of becoming data scientist and already taking the decision, I moved on. Now we cannot ask every question in half hour with the mentor. So we have Teaching Assistant. They had one who recently graduated from a prestigious engineering college in India. After some of my interaction, my concern was that he was not a good fit for this role as he doesn't have any teaching experience, smart doesn't mean you have the ability to teach or help someone. Many of my questions to him came back to me as another question. Mostly why do you wanna know or in which part of course this question refers too, when the answer could be simple. I raised my concern but in vain. I simply stopped asking questions but googling it myself thus spending more time for answers. Also, their office hours seemed more of a formality. Then there was student advisor who interacts with students and solve their concerns. At start she seemed good, listening to the concerns and trying to solve them. But there were very few students, as the numbers began to increase every month, her response time increased further to a point when it took a month and a half for the my certificate to rectify. But the course went on. There were many parts in the course which seemed very distracted from the course. The difficulty level of a part was sometimes low and then jumped high as we were doing a doctorate on that particular topic. The main part which was Machine learning felt like a game walkthrough than we actually playing the game. Few parts were rushed and few repetitive. But I did not complain, even to myself and used search engine.(Note: According to them we can find everything on the internet so learn to use it.) Their cost was not justified yet I did not squeal. The point where came the breaking point, is their Career services. They give 100% Job Guarantee but all I can see is throwing someone in a deep sea after showing them a video of someone swimming and then asking for the person to swim. I think they are giving this guarantee considering the demand in market and effort by an educated and employed student themselves. It worked in USA but it failed miserably in India. It was all due to lack of vision and effort by the management. The management felt immature, incompetent at first. Then at the course end the management felt even more immature and more incompetent. They did not consider the feedback regarding course being not suited for Indian Market and did not update it. They did not consider so many students who were unsatisfied with the career services. Their career calls ran in a loop and as a pre-recorded tape convincing us that they are working on helping us. This convincing started to feel like manipulation when after 5 months and multiple calls even with career services leads ( Yes lead(s), as their lead changed within a year. Might be fed up with overall management itself), I felt I was where I started from. It seemed they didn't even knew what they were doing. It was at the point when their marketing part was working very very hard to get more numbers in. It was a memorable journey which I wish to forget. If anyone wants to feel the same, then please join Springboard India and I assure you it will be a bumpy ride with a big black hole at the end.