CareerFoundry

I wanted to do a UX course for a while and tried to study UX on my own. Because there are some many websites, blogs and free courses out there, I didn't know where to begin. That's why I choose to follow a UX course at Careerfoundry. I hated going to university: studying books and writing papers was very boring to me. However, I love the UX Fundamentals course in Careerfoundry because you can start building up your portfolio right away. The exercises are hands-on, very practical and exciting! I really appreciate the help from my tutor and mentor, as they always gives me helpful and motivating feedback. What I like the most is that I can immediately start using my new skills in my current job. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who is interested in UX!

Very dissatisfied with the Student Advisory team. More of that later.

The course is tough! Taking up more time than expected but I'm progressing and on track to finish on time. If you're a beginner like me, treat this as a full-time course. You may find it difficult to stay on track if you devote only 20 hours/week.

One thing I do not like is the excessive amount of links the lessons throw at me. Ruins my flow. I'd spend a bunch of time finally understanding a section, go on to the next section and get links to read up on other stuff. This happens a lot and pretty much in every lesson. It's overwhelming. Hard to determine which links are important and which ones I can save for later. If I were to go through each link, it would take forever to complete the course. Not ideal for a beginner programmer. Intermediate or Advanced, okay. But I'm not gonna read through all this stuff. I would have liked something more streamlined.

My tutor is okay. He responds to my lesson submissions within 24-48 hours. Maybe on 1-2 occasions, past 48 hours. If I'm stuck and send him a direct message, he'll respond in a couple of hours. 24 hours the latest. Good luck if you have a PC. It's hard to progress once you get on Achievement 3, Ruby. Easier if you have a Mac or Dual boot Ubuntu. Tutor wasn't able to help me with my PC problems so I ended up having to take my Mac out of storage to continue on with the course.

Not a lot of activity on the CF message boards. A lot of questions go unanswered. I might get better success on Slack but I don't see a lot of students posting lesson specific questions so I never bothered. From what I've seen, most of the posts on Slack are for career placement.

My mentor knows his stuff well. Hesitant to reach out to him, however, as he's very busy. He's a contractor for Career Foundry and I was encouraged to reach out to him on Slack only when it is urgent or if I'm really stuck on something. He also didn't sound too confident when I asked if he can help me get up and running on Achievement 3 using a PC. He said he'd try his best. I opted to just get my Mac out of storage. Our communication, for the most part, is via webchat. I have about 8 sessions(up to an hour) total. I need to have a list of questions prior to each session to make the most out of them. Outside of these webchats, it's tough to send quick questions.

I'm basically on my own. They highly encourage Google and Stack Overflow to solve your own problems and only reach out to your tutor/mentor when you absolutely need it. Since they take up to 24 hours to respond to you and not much activity on the message boards, it's hard to get a quick answer.

The course is ideal for intermediate/advanced programmers but for a beginner who needs a little extra hand holding, I feel the human element is strongly lacking. This brings me to the Student Advisory team. These are the guys you reach out to if you have general questions, concerns, requests for tutor/mentor replacement, etc. I'd like to compare the student advisor I was paired up with to that of a robot. This person felt that copying/pasting blocks of text to answer my questions was sufficient correspondence. Questions were only partially answered. I complained about it and another advisor volunteered to replace her when I considered dropping out of the course for a full refund. I believe you have a week or two to back out before you are financially committed. The thing is, once I agreed to stick with CF and knew I wouldn't get a refund on what I currently paid, the replacement advisor stopped answering my emails. It's funny, the only genuine conversations I've had with anyone throughout this experience were with the sales rep when she was selling it to me and the replacement student advisor who assured me I wouldn't have to go through the same frustrations I've experienced with the first advisor when I was thinking of getting a refund. When money is involved, I know they would put in their best effort to address your concerns. After that, you better be lucky you're paired with a good advisor, tutor, and mentor. In my personal experience, I've observed that CareerFoundry is driven most by revenue and will put in a minimal effort into my growth and development and a web programmer.

I haven't started on the job placement portion of the course yet. I'm only halfway done. Don't need to wait, however, to complete the course to write this review. I've already formed my opinion of CareerFoundry. They get 1 star for the overall experience, but I'll add an extra star because I am learning(ever so slowly) and for the job guarantee.

This course is really worth your time and investment. I was a COMPLETE beginner with a small tech anxiety too, so it was a challenge for me even see myself as a competent member of the tech industry. Of course, the imposter syndrome is still there and will stay for a while, but I cannot deny myself the huge progress I've made since the beginning of the course.
It is all down to my tutor/mentor team, honestly. They were so patient, helpful and knowledgeable, that I learned a huge deal from them. No task was ever approved just, so I get pushed along - NO, even if one took me weeks, it had to be on a great level for them to accept it. That's what I wanted, I don't want to finish a course and still have no idea what I'm doing - I put in the work, they gave me their attention and perfection seeking attitude. I genuinely felt like I'm seeing online products with completely different eyes, notice things that I've always taken for granted and seeing the difference between the good and not-so-good UX design.
The curriculum is great, easy to understand and presented in a non-techy language, so I was not confused at all, yet learned everything I needed to know (including the properly explained tech lingo).
You get to use industry standard software that makes you feel confident about entering a workplace.
Staff is super helpful, friendly and positive.
Even though I haven't yet finished the course, I can see that the career team is very active and full of energy to help me find a job as much as they possibly can. I talked to a career advisor once already and had a great session, I can do that as much as I want with CF, whenever I need some advice or say an interview prep session. They are like energy volcanos with a passion for getting things done.
There is simply nothing I can think of that I was not very impressed with and you can trust me, I'm not easy to please ;)
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

I'm coming to the end of my UI Design course and I must say I'm a little sad that's it's going to be over soon. I have learned SO much & my confidence as a designer has excelled exponentially. As much as I'm excited to start applying my newly found skills to the real world, I am going to miss Career Foundry. I will especially miss the indepth, encouraging, timely and constructive feedback I've been receiving from my tutor, Henrietta Creedy. I recommend this course to all - especially those who think they have no business meddling in the world of tech. I was nearly computer illiterate before I started. Now I consider myself a Sketch master and a UI Designer on my way to the top!

CareerFoundry was the best decision I could have ever made. I make a transition from Graphic Designer to UI Designer and it was really easy because of the Curriculum and Mentors The school has. My mentor was always open to give me advice, critic my work so I can enhance my skills and also there were 12 calls available which was awesome. After finishing my course I got my first job as a UI Designer in just 1 month and about 2 weeks. They have some career specialist you can contact so they help you on your job hunting. 

Honestly CareerFoundry is growing and for now, I think is the best online tech school. Before enrolling I look for others courses and curriculums and the most completed and interesting was that one. Every chapter was well developed with enough information to understand each topic, examples and of course the orientation of your mentor. 

I'm very happy to have made the decision to go with CareerFoundry in my career change from the dead-end, unfulfilling role of audio/visual engineer to UI/UX designer. Being very creatively-minded since young, I think I had a strong advantage when it came to studying this course and finishing it in 4 months. 

It covers the fundamentals of (UI) design as well as UX in order to start working in this field. You'll finish with a solid portfolio, however, after I completed the course I still created a few more projects to add a bit more diversity to mine.

The Career Change Achievement helps in refining your CV, cover letter template and in general prepares you for entering the job market, but I think this is where you have to do most of the legwork. I haven't seen many job opportunities come directly from the career placement team, but I've been busy applying for jobs myself over the past two weeks or so since finishing. I've had two promising interviews so far with another tomorrow, and I'm confident that I will have a full-time job shortly. 

I am 26 years old Indian women who's marriage stayed only for 4 months and struggling to get justice. In such a terrible phase of my life I could not think of anything. I was completely shattered but CareerFoundry platform is the Only ray of sunshine into my life. For a girl like me who is been dominated by society and family became confident about herself. Careerfoundry helped me to envision , plan , take actions to redesign my life again. My tutors and mentors are always supportive. Whenever I get stuck whether in code or in some personal problem by tutor is always there to guide me and help to resolve issues. Slowly and gradually with the course I am becoming confident in my skills and knowledge . Slack community is always active and provides huge resources. Its career specialist team is there to help to get the job that we love and offers 100% full refund if we don't get job we love. Also helps in grooming our interpersonal skills , building resume and making us a better version of ourself. Everything is transparent and this build a confidence between me and CareerFoundry. Today I will say joining CareerFoundry was the best decison of my life. I will always be obliged to the entire Team of CareerFoundry and proud to be a part of its family.

I started with my Certified UX Designer Program in February. I was a bit concerned since I work full-time and the program requires aprx. 15 hours per week. But so far, it works perfectly. I managed to have two dedicated days per week to study in the evening and a half day at the weekend. So far, I am in time and had not to skip a social event.

The class itself is super much fun although it is very challening. I am working as a customer relationship manager, so I know a bit of the topic, but there is so much to learn that I would have never expected before. It is interesting because of very good written texts, links and great examples to get further information, but no videos. When I was at University, I studied history, so I am used to dealing with a lot of text. Therefore for me the style of learning is perfect. Content-wise I do learn a lot about design theories, flows, how to sort and structure thoughts and insights, as well as to present my findings. 

The programm is sheduled in doable lessons. One takes me an evening or sometimes more, when I have to shedule interviews or other appointments.

My tutor gives me extremely detailed feedback, much more then I expected. This helps me a lot, especially when I think I did well and than get so many new perspectives from my tutor how to improve.

I am happy to learn so much more until my graduation in December 2017!

I felt it was necessary to put this up here as CareerFoundry has done a whole lot in the last four months that needs to be recognized so future students can get an inside look at how well the school is progressing.

I started just a few months ago and prior I was extremely skeptical being within the UX community for quite a few month prior to that. I got the chance to give CF's completely new curriculum and school a go as one of the first students to hit the ground running when they released it. So far I am extremely happy with everything and couldnt have made a better choice looking back at the anxiety I had choosing a school.

I have a wonderful Mentor and Tutor who support me the entire way and have different jobs when it comes to making sure I succeed. The community on Slack is wonderful and you always feel like you have other students by your side as if you were going to normal college. The course is well laid out and definitely not easy, you need to put your head down and dig right in to make sure you are getting 120% out of all the material they provide as there is an abundance of information you get on every topic along with assignments, direct feedback and skype calls from your tutor and mentor. The layout is well planned and visually beautiful as well as they just updated the look and feel again of the course which has made it easier to navigate and see your progress.

The biggest skeptiscism I had with all the UX and UI bootcamps was job placement. This is something that I know for many people feels like a safety net almost if your coming from a unrelated field and making a leap of faith. CF has a full blown team dedicated to not only working with you on job placement at the end, but from day one you'll see specialist hanging out in Slack getting involved in the community with different events like portfolio challenges or local meetups and special holiday events. This really intrigued me when I first saw it because not once in the past have I EVER seen involvement like this from a career team. I could talk to any of them about anything from accountability meetups to improving my resume. Super useful!

I could go on for hours about other things that have pleasently surprised me with CF but I dont want to waste anyones time here. All in all 5/5 for CF. The experience has been wonderful and I look forward to continuing and finishing my journey as a student with them!

I’m a Tutor at CareerFoundry and I can tell you In my opinion as an experienced UI-Designer the course is solid, the staff is so friendly, we have a very responsive community of designer and students, the mentors are so talented! I'm really happy to be part of such a talented community of designers. If someone out there is interested to give it a try here is a promo link that discounts $200 usd from any of the programs CF have: http://mbsy.co/careerfoundry/28708517

I loved this course. It's pretty thorough and a lot of work, but I had a great mentor - Angelo - who was very helpful and gave great feedback. They won't let you slide by if it's not good enough.

There were definitely a lot of late nights and it's a grind to stay on top of things if you work full time. It's manageable though if you use your time wisely.

I definitely reccomend this for anyone interested in UX. There is also a lot of UI learning in the course, as well.