Devhaus Leipzig

Unfortunately I can also attest to the fact that many of these positive reviews have been written by people who have worked at Devhaus in some capacity. 

I find it completely abhorrent to take 15,000+ euros from every student based on a series of lies. I am a recent graduate of the program and promise you that although there are some well meaning and fantastic instructors, the company itself is irreparably corrupt. Devhaus lures students in through a sense of "community" and diversity but realistically fails students whenever they voice a need. 

Devhaus falsely reports on their website "Our curriculum thrives on interactions with team members from other companies... Additionally, we invite company representatives for Career Development days..." and "Over 90% of our job seeking graduates have found employment in technical positions through the network we've built within Devhaus Leipzig or through their own job search." It is simply not true that 90% of job seeking graduates have found employment. For years now, students have passed down information from camp to camp that Devhaus was failing on their promises to help with job finding and corporate networking. Tens of students have felt used by Devhaus for their tuition funding and then spit out on the other side without any real guidance. Now Devhaus is trying to rope students in to a second career-building camp to prepare them for the workforce in order to take more money and time from them then they initially promised. I'm of the distinct opinion that this constitutes fraudulent behavior. 

Students are made to feel like their concerns are being "heard" through one-on-ones with the co-founder but soon realize that actually it's all talk and no action. Many students and employees have complained of an atmosphere of negligence and tolerance for abuse from the top down that resulted in net negative experiences in the camp. Unfortunately Devhaus has been given the opportunity time and time again to improve upon their dishonest practices (they're on the 10th iteration of the camp) but continue to fail on their promises. 

I strongly recommend anyone who's considering applying to simply apply for the better organized competitors instead.

Have to give three stars to Overall Experience and Instructors because, at the time I participated, the lead instructor was incredible and taught more than I ever could have hoped for. He alone adds an additional 2 stars. As I understand, he is no longer the lead instructor. Things I have learned about since my time there from other graduates have deeply disturbed me.

Devhaus promises to provide career counseling and to help graduates find jobs after completion. The founder, Taylor, will definitely play the role of the "supportive coach" during the course and make you think that he genuinely cares for you and your success. As soon as the Job Center cashes your check, you do not matter to them. Don't be fooled by the fancy companies they list on their website; they will not help you. Maybe, if you're lucky, Devhaus itself will hire you, just to fire you shortly before the end of your probation period. They may even try to fire you afterwards, I've been told. Illegal, by the way! 

The course offers a good education, if you're lucky with the instructor. I have to mention Franz by name specifically, because he is too abhorrent to go unnamed. What a horrible person! People quit the course because they actually fear him and his (what I assume are) cocaine-fueled rages. He has screamed in students faces and thrown expletives at them. He puts in as little effort as possible while teaching. That's to be expected, though: he starts each class telling students that he is a bad teacher! I even heard rumors that he was dealing drugs to the students, though I cannot confirm that. 

That's not even to mention the inappropriate relationships that the founder tries to pressure students into. Women: beware!

All this to say: there are other coding bootcamps out there, locally and online. Devhaus is not where you want to go unless you want to break your neck learning everything yourself and wonder why you wake up each morning to attend a course, only to be bullied and mistreated by people making money off of you. 

This is a message for people interested in web dev or about this school:

First of all, most of the 5 stars you see here are from instructors and students who got employed via scholarship as it was mentioned in their contract before to start the school.

I was attracted by dev haus because they seemed open minded and friends in previous camps told me even though they faced some negative points, it was still fine because they got to go to some events, they got what was wrote on the paper so the overall experience was fine. Finding a job was doable and for people with low german capacity too if you are not limited to search one only in Leizpig as it good to mention that it represents a large majority in every camps.
So for me after hardly working during corona and previous events in life that were not so nice, that leads me mentally ill and diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, it was a chance to go this bootcamp.

Even though instructors are  overwhelmed because they have to give lessons but also work at the same time in some projects because dev haus is not only school, it's not very well organized and as a student you'll be impacted in your daily lessons but also the mood of the environnement. It's also not surprising to see that the people who told us that we are lucky compared to their previous camps with new chairs or sofa were actually people having a sholarship with the school and got employed before of a contract before their camp started.  
We were promised on the curriculum an important event (at least for me) that never happen to get a carreer week where we would get teach how to make a cv for being web dev, meeting companies, having following after the course ( which is for now a reported hackathon, and an exercice about coding challenge). They said since months that it's going to happen in April even though my camp is over since three weeks and already two new camps started. Mysteriously they don't propose it anymore in the next camps ans when the question is asking, I got no real answer or just no answer.

About teaching, the teachers know a lot, you'll learn a lot for sure but some teachers are just not good to teach and they will throw you the contents at you and if you don't understand that not really their problems. I felt each months was really going worse and even though they organized 1 to 1 which they don't do anymore too, all problems talked were not really solved and it was speaking to a wall somehow about carreer week, how it's going to at the end of the bootcamp...  

I didn't wanted to make a review  because it's not fair to spit in the hands of people teaching you something but someone should speak up because it's clearly not right what they do, they attract people trying to be cool and open minded. In my opinion, it's money oriented school even though it can be financed by job center so they just play on life of people who preivously works hard to get into a camp but dev haus don't do what they say or it's not correctly done. 

The straw that breaks the camel was just yesterday, even though I wrote a message to a teacher one week before that I will need guidance on how to approach a 48h coding challenge for a job. I came to the school in the afternoon to work at their free space that literally no previous students really use. I know they are busy but this teacher told me it's no problem that in the evening he can have a look it.. well most of the teachers were playing gamecube literally after the day was over in front of me.. like giving no fuck to a student they had and just telling me good luck and that I can do it by myself looking at the problem for just a minute while it was easy to see that I was not comfortable. Fortunately a friend who's working there gave me some advices as I contacted him to and helped me a bit but crazy to see how the level of disrescpect was from senior to act like this just because they know it's not their problem anymore to help you correctly and they don't have to.

I can only referr you to the other positive comments you can find here. Bottom line: worth the money, join and enjoy community, get the assistance to take some decisive steps into a web-dev carreer.
I liked the personal investment by the whole Devhaus Team and affiliates a lot. Wich makes a big difference to an average education business and courses build on ''sellsword''-instructors.
The main instructor is skillfull and competent in technical terms as well as in presenting and teaching. Good Balance between theory and practice.

 As someone who's never done any programming before and was looking for a new career path, I was very excited when I got accepted to the Devhaus Leipzig code camp! The beginning was amazing, we were all excited and had no idea what to expect, but as we progressed with the curriculum, so came the disappointment:

1. The curriculum: on paper, everything sounded logical. there were all the basic things we needed to know like HTML, CSS, JS, and framework, in addition to some other lessons that sounded good like self-help, computer science and more. It was flawed. The staff missed some of the more crucial parts of being a programmer, like learning how to search, read documentation and code, and practice assignments. What started nice turned into frustration, as I felt lost and behind. Many of the students had some experience in programming and anyone who was behind suffered from frustration.
2. The teacher: We mainly studied with Gabe, an extremely skilled programmer, but lacking what it needs to be a good teacher. In many tasks we had, he simply took over and wrote what was needed to complete the task, leaving us all confused and struggling to understand how to achieve the same results. Sometimes other teachers came along and instructed us, but it was felt like their part could be easily skipped or being improved. many of the lessons were incomplete, rushed or plain weird (Some teachers were socially awkward and it made us feel pretty uncomfortable).
3. The job search: before and after the course, the instructors and management promised that we would get in the job market without any issues and that they will assist us any step of the way. Looking back, it feels like it was no more than a marketing ruse to get us to sign and open our wallets. As the bare minimum was made to assist us with job findings, some of the few HR recruiters that contacted us didn't even know what positions are we looking for, and the interviews were a failure. 

In conclusion, I left the course with slightly better knowledge about programming, but not enough to work as a Junior developer. The experience was overall nice in terms of the community but not satisfying in terms of learning and getting a job. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this course and would advise the management to find another teacher or try a different teaching method.