Devmountain

My experience at DevMountain in Dallas was incredible. The instructors and course work taught me in three months what would have taken me over a year or more to learn on my own, in addition to exposing me to technologies and frameworks I may have otherwise not knew even how to begin to learn.

Don't think though that you can just go through the motions and magically understand everything though -- you get out of it what you put into it. They are very clear and upfront about this too. It's going to be hard work but if you put in the time you'll come out with the results you were looking for with skills that are in demand.

Prior to enrolling in DevMountain I was working as a retail wage slave, and just last week I accepted an offer as a web developer starting a career I before could only fantasize about. Of course no one can guarantee you'll get a job, but if you're willing to put in the work, then doors will open up. They did for me, and they did for others that were in the course with me as well.

I came to DevMountain with almost no prior coding experience and 3 weeks after graduating landed a job as a developer with a 67% salary increase over my last job!  The boot camp was an intense experience, but not any more intense than a busy college semester, and it went by so quickly.  What is great about the structure of DevMountain is that you get a ton of hands-on experience just practicing building stuff with what you learn every day after lecture.  Then when personal and group project time rolls around, all you do is build something you're interested in and that's where everything really sinks in.  I poured my heart into my personal and group projects and those, along with a couple other projects we did as part of the curriculum and one I did on the side, meant that I had a pretty decent portfolio of work at the end. The mentors are wonderful, patient, and were always willing and able to help me solve problems as I got stuck.  In the last week, DevMountain organizes a lunch where students can meet potential employers and show off their projects.  I met my new employer there and 3 weeks later was offered a position.  My feeling leaving DevMountain is that it helped me to build up a lot of momentum learning web development--enough to launch me into a new career!

My experience at DevMountain was literally life changing and a highlight of my established career and education.  Prior to enrolling, I attempted to learn the basics of web development from YouTube, Team Treehouse, friends and other various tutorials. While there is a wealth of quality self instruction available on the internet, it is only accessible if you are fluent enough in the the syntax of development to take advantage of it. I would follow a tutorial and then get stuck at a "basic" point. I never progressed or gained enough comprehension to have any degree of autonomy. I was sick of being frustrated and it was obvious I was only going to learn from an instructor, so I jumped on the chance to attend DevMountain's first Dallas cohort. This turned out to be one of the best decisions I have ever made.

I came to the school with a clear expectation of leaving with the ability to build a fully functioning web application. Logins, security, external API's, permissions, testing, hosting... all of it. Not only did DevMountain meet my expectation but they beat it by consistently over delivering. Others have covered  the curriculum basics, so I won't rehash that, but I do feel it is necessary to address some of the negative reviews I've seen here.

In DevMountain, as with life, you are going to get out what you put in. The students airing grievances about staff, curriculum, projects and job prospects were 100% down the line the same ones who NEVER ASKED A QUESTION IN THREE MONTHS. Unsurprisingly they were also the same ones bitching about accommodations, desks,  coffee, elevators, etc.  It was a theme I saw from day one all the way through the hiring luncheon. 

The staff is not there to cater the entire program to a particular student's ability or attitude. Nor are they mind readers, channeling each student's inner thought for signs of comprehension. There are there to deliver quality instruction, answer questions and help students work through more complex problems. In three months, I never encountered an instance where DevMountain staff was unable to provide clear, actionable answers to my questions. If the did not know an answer immediately, they would research and loop back to you later in the day or keep pushing the question up the chain until someone could answer it properly. 

Regarding the curriculum, yes there are times when something is unclear or slightly outdated. Guess what?!? That's exactly how it is when you enter the workforce. Get used to it. If all problems were solved, there wouldn't be a need for employees.  I get the impression that some negative reviewers are long on opinion and short on real world experience. 

I wholeheartedly recommend this school. While others left with piddling complaints, I left with a fully functioning web application my company now uses daily and a set of valuable skills that allow me to learn more and build more in the future. What more can you ask for?

I went through a sort of mid-life crisis at Dev Mountain. About halfway through the cohort I looked at Course Report and read some of the recent negative reviews and this got my mind racing. Maybe I made the wrong choice. Maybe DevMountain isn't as good as it once was...

I'm happy to say I was wrong about all of this. For those of you who care about getting-a-job- results: Two weeks after graduating from DevMountain I landed a Front End Apprenticeship at a company called MX. MX is a fast-growing startup that is super well known in the Salt Lake/Provo area. It really was my top choice to land this apprenticeship, and I made that known to the career-building team at DevMountain (specifically Jeff Chapman) and they helped me land this.

This isn't to say that this career opportunity was handed to me on a silver platter. I worked hard. I did things that other people in my cohort didn't - i.e completed open source projects, networked, and just generally dove into the material. 

However, I also didn't go insane. I wasn't up everyday till 2AM working. I would go to class. Work hard for a few hours after class, maybe put in 5 or so hours on both Saturday and Sunday and that was it. I also had almost no prior programming experience. 

The curriculum and the instruction was great. I read a recent review that talks about 'instructors fumbling with bugs in their code'. I guarantee that anybody who live codes is goign to fumble a bit. Bugs come up, that's the nature of live-coding. I found that the instructors genuinely cared, and the curriculum was great. 

The kinks that were in the curriculum were more like growing pains that are caused by the fast-moving nature of Web Development. I mean this stuff moves fast. One day it's flux, the next it's redux, and who knows what it will be tomorrow. DevMountain instructors and mentors are really thoughtful about implementing stuff that will apply to the web dev world today. 

I'm going to cut this review here, but seriously, if you have any doubts about attending devmountain contact me. I found that the overall support, learning style, and project-based-learning environment were a better experience than my time spent at USC (university of Southern California) which is a top tier university, 

DevMountain lived up to its offer of being able to start a new career after going through their intensive three-month web development program. It was a very tough course that required many hours and dedication for three months. However, those of us who successfully made it through learned much more than I thought could be done in such a short amount of time. I walked away feeling comfortable with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular.js, Express.js, Node.js, jQuery, Git, and MongoDB. We got a taste of other things like React, Firebase, and D3 as well.

Overall, I am very pleased with the outcome as I was able to get two job offers within two weeks after graduating. I accepted one of those offers to be a Software Developer for a company that came to our "Meet & Hire" Lunch sponsored by DevMoutain for graduating students. I will say that getting a job this quickly is probably not the norm from what I have seen. I was fortunate enough to be blessed with an opportunity that happened to correlate with previous industry experience I had before deciding to make a career change.

I believe that DevMountain prepared students well for getting a job, but it is still up to each student to learn as much as they can, become proficient in web programming, and make themselves marketable through social media such as LinkedIn and through networking. DevMoutain also does a great job preparing students for interviews and having a good resume and LinkedIn profile. They have someone dedicated to helping students get jobs, which is a great resourse.

I recently completed the Immersive Web Development Cohort at DevMountain. Going into the program, I had strongly debated between Development or UI/UX, as I am a very big design guy. I decided that I was confident enough in my design skills and that I wanted to learn something completely new.

The course at DevMountain opened up my eyes to so many new possibilities. I was nowhere close to being the best student, and honestly was probably in the bottom half of the group. However, I was able to gain such a great understanding for how full stack development works. I have no doubt that if I would have dedicated myself more to the program, that I would have excelled so much more in development.

I am now a designer for a premium clothing company, and I was able to get this opportunity through a friend I made at DevMountain who got a job as a developer for this company as well. I work very closely with the development team, and because of my time at DevMountain, I am able to communicate with them in technical terms in relation to coding, etc.

I am definitely looking to continue to develop my coding skills, but I wouldn't trade my experience at DevMountain for anything. Regardless of how well I did in the program, it opened doors for me, and I am not getting to do something that I love every single day.

It's all about how much effort and dedication that you put into it.

I would recommend DevMountain to anyone.

This course, or "cohort" as they called it, was riddled with inexperience, lack of preparation, and apathy.

More often than not my class would arrive early ready and hungry to learn.  The instructor would show up 15 - 30 minutes late and start looking for what today's lesson was.  It was not uncommon at all for the instructor to just adlib his way through the material.  Material that he didn't know we would be covering that day until he walked into class.  Instructors would make several mistakes, fumbling around until their code worked.

What makes all of that worse was none of the instructors cared.  It's quite obvious that at one time the provo location was a good thing and people felt prepared to continue in a programming career path after completing it, but those instructors and that curriculum is long gone.  In fact, if you look at the instructors they have listed as teaching their cohorts on their website, you are being lied to.  None of those instructors work for the school anymore, all that is left is assignments they wrote and study sheets they created gone over by someone that doesn't quite understand what the original author was trying to help the students learn.  It really makes me sad.

DevMountain employees what they call 'Mentors'.  These are former graduates that attend the classes and are (in theory) there to assist the instructor and help the students with questions, problems, or just give ideas when they get stuck trying to write some difficult code.  This also was NOT the case.  The mentors would sit in the back working on their own projects and seemed genuinely annoyed if we wanted help.  This caused a few students in my class to reconsider early on and leave the camp with a partial refund.

Their classes used to wrap up with a final-project show and tell night of sorts where all the students were excited to show the project they had built during the last 4 weeks if the camp, as well as see others' projects.  Students learned from what others had done and were able to improve their own work as a result.  Unfortunately this too has become a shell of what it was.  The organizers take all the shortcuts they can so the night feels like a quickly organized intramural meeting where no one really has an idea what the program is.  But hey they brought food right?! 

After leaving this school I really wish I had gone somewhere else.  There are a few opportunities just like DevMountain in the Provo area and I feel like I would have learned a LOT more attending another camp.  I would strongly recommend exploring other options if you are considering attending a programming boot camp.  You CAN learn a lot from other sources, I am not going to stoop to the level of endorsing any of them in this review, but I have attended another camp since DevMountain and it was exponentially better.

As a recent graduate of DevMountain, I thought of writing a review with my experiences only after getting a job! It is kind of selfish of me, but that is a reality. Well, I didn’t have to wait too long! I got a job offer from a reputed company within one week of graduation! This company was amongst many others who had been invited for the employer meet-and-hire event hosted by DevMountain. The event provided me with a great platform to interact with these companies and showcase the applications that I had worked on personally and in a group. 

Their course syllabus is carefully built to give you the most learnings and a joyful experience executing it. I was in their full-time immersive Web Development course. They focused on the MEAN stack that is so in-demand today. This way you can go in-depth with JavaScript across the application layers making you very adept at it. I can attest to their approach since going depth-first helped me become skillful in developing full-stack applications and deploying them. Not only that, I can now quickly draw parallels to other technologies out there and find it easy to conquer them too. DevMountain’s approach makes sense to me, it is very effective and I love it. 

DevMountain’s syllabus also provided a much needed chance to work on a personal project mid-way into the course and also on a group project towards the end. With my personal project, I got a chance to implement all that I learnt from their instructors and mentors. DevMountain’s instructors and mentors have a lot of industry experience and a great passion for teaching. This helped me a lot since I got distilled knowledge and real-world application best practices that otherwise would have taken me years to achieve on my own. I got my money's worth many times over right there. Their group project provided me with an experience of working in a team as I would in the IT industry. There are so many things to learn from the dynamics of a team that you would only when put in one!

DevMountain is also unique in that they provide free and fully-furnished housing! For me, the housing was so close to their campus that I could walk over every day and come back in the evenings. My wife was very relieved to know of this accommodation by DevMountain. It freed up my mind too of all worries with regards to my safety and convenience of stay. I could remain focused on achieving my goals. I am forever grateful to them for that. 

Absolutely nothing comes to my mind that DevMountain could have done better for me and others in my class. I attribute a big part of my success to the learnings I had from their experienced instructors and mentors. They are the best out there. Getting a job within only a week of graduation proved it for me and hopefully it will for you also.

The Web Development job market is so hot right now and it is only going to get hotter. If you want to get in and invest your time learning, you should do so judiciously. There is absolutely no time to waste! So, if you are still on the fence, you shouldn’t be anymore. I believe my experiences with DevMountain will help you decide your next course of action. I wish you all the very best indeed.

I was a student of the first cohort for the 13 week web immersive course in Dallas, TX. Being the first cohort in a new city/location, there were obviously some growing pains at first.  However, things really started to come together and students began picking up more and more skills along the way.  I am quite certain that the next cohort will have an even better experience.  

My favorite part of the program is getting to meet and work with a wide variety of people.  Personally, I think it is cool to meet people from all walks of life and to learn about their beliefs, interests, and goals.  Our class was fairly talented as a whole and I’m happy I was able to work alongside them through the ups and downs of a long and trying "journey" (seems silly since it 3 months doesn't seem that long in the grand scheme of things but it was a journey nonetheless).

I had a great time and am glad I came out here to Texas to be a part of something new and different.  Everyone knows Devmountain in the community and there are people more than willing to bust their tails to help you out.  I landed a full-time salaried job before the program was over due to connections I made while in the program.  These opportunities are out there, so if you want to jump off the cliff with me...come out to Texas.  

I loved being at DevMountain. I learn best when someone is in front of me, helping me, guiding me, teaching me. In a classroom setting. In person. So, DevMountain was exactly what I was looking for.

I was lucky. I was part of a great cohort that all gelled really well. So we all worked together pretty well. Obviously, there were a few people who seemed to be less dedicated than others. I am going to keep in contact with the people in my class forever. A big part of DevMountain is that you get out what you put in. I really wasn't expecting a job because I had heard that some bootcamps actually don't get students a job. But, I worked hard and was able to get a good job after the program. The teachers were amazing and always there to answer questions or give help. I definitely attribute my job now and my knowledge all to DevMountain. 

I live in an area that doesn't have a lot of tech opportunities, so DevMountain really ended up being a great option. Yea, it is in Utah, but it wasn't that bad. Also, with the free housing, the affordable pricing, and the quality, it is definitely the cheapest and best option.

I loved my experience at DevMountain and I would recommend it to people who want a more hands on classroom approach. DevMountain's campus is awesome. Plus they have a sweet coke machine. I loved my campus and the people there - my life has definitely changed because of it, and I can't thank them enough.

Attending DevMountain is one of the best decisions I have made.  I starting building my first website over a year ago not knowing anything.  I was so proud of what I had created and loved coding that I decided I wanted to change careers and become a web developer.  My plan was to go back to school and get a masters in computer science (I have a BS in Math).  Then, my brother told me about DevMountain, and after doing some research and looking into other dev boot camps, I decided to apply.  Way less time and money than getting a masters.  I learned more than I could have imaged in only 3 months.  I do think that having a background in Math helped me a ton.  Now, I have a skill that will help me for the rest of my life.  And DevMountain works hard to help you find a job.  I am very pleased with the outcome and would recommend DevMountain to anyone who has a passion for creating things and solving problems.  I would suggest doing a little coding before applying to make sure it is something you love.  There are students who find out during the course that they don't really enjoy it.

DevMountain was ok, if your looking for a career maybe go to school first. I have only gotten a response from a handful of companies and they all say the same thing "I need more exprience". It's quite a bit of money to spend if your hoping to get a career out of it, which most everyone looking into it is looking to get a new career out of it. If your going just to learn coding its probably worth it, if your main goal is a job it might not take you in that direction. Just something to think about before you spend the money.