Rutgers Bootcamps

This so called bootcamp is such a dissapoitment. I should have done my research before starting. This school only has about 20 reviews when other schools have thousands of reviews which are all mostly positive. Evertything that was thought, was thought from google. When I asked where the restroom was they told me to google it. That is their answer to everything. No books are provided and the instructors and assitants dont know much about coding. The whole course should be re evaluated. 

Save your time and money go else where or teach your self. Please dont make the same mistake I made.

The student success manager really needs to be trained better or she should find a new job. She is the main reason why the course is runned the way it is. 

What a dissapointment. I cant understand how they have any positive reviews.

I graduated from Rutgers Coding Bootcamp in July, and overall it was a great experience. The program moves pretty quickly, so you must be ready to put in the hard work. The instructors and teaching assistants definitely made you feel like family.

I can not say the same for the career development and student success team. There were countless times where many students tried to get in contact with  people who are part of student success and did not get a response for weeks. I understand that there is a lot going on, but not hearing back for weeks is unacceptable.

Career services held a couple workshops to help people get prepared for the job market. We only had one mock interview with very limited feedback from career services. At the end of the program, they hosted a Demo day where students can showcase their portfolios to recruiters. Many of us noticed that the number of partnerships that they told us they had at the beginning of the program and the number of that showed up were not remotely close. I also noticed a lot of favoritism during demo day. Instructors were pointing recruiters in their favorite students direction. Many of us stood there with less than a handful of recruiters stopping by to see our work. We were all told to print 100 copies but handed out less than 20.

This program will greatly broaden your coding knowledge, and you will come out of it with tools that will help you succeed in web development. On the other hand, don't rely on career services to find you a job; work hard and find one on your own.

This was a great experience from beginning to end.  I had learned alot during the last few months and I had created things that I never knew I could create. It was a great curriculum where it would start you off with the basics to get everyone up to speed and then slam you with a myriad of technologies.  It doesn't go into full depth into each and every one of those technologies, but that is not the point.  If it did, this course might take a lifetime to learn.  Technologies come and go but what we have learned are the fundamentals of coding and good source of tools at our disposal to do build upon.

I would like to thank the whole staff for being so helpful and patient with us.  As much as they had provided the help, ultimately it was up to us what to acheive with the content that we had learned.  As with anything in life,  If you put your work and time in, you will get amazing things accomplished.   

In the end, I will miss this class as it was an honor to work with brilliant people with a similar passion for coding, and thanks again Alex, the TA's, Funda, and Career Services.