Ironhack

I’ve asked some Alumni and people from tech industry before starting Ironhack and everybody told me that it was one of the best opportunities to change my career and improve my skills fast and successfully. They also told me it was going to be a big challenge. Last two months I’ve only lived for the bootcamp. From early in the morning till almost midnight.

The results got over my expectatives. I’ve learned a lot of techniques and processes like GV Design Sprint or Design Thinking to get focused to user centered design. Tools like Sketch, InVision or Flinto are now on my daily routine and I’ve even learned to make my own websites with HTML, CSS and notions of Javascript.

The lead teacher, Fabio Korsos, is an experienced designer that worked with some of the most successful companies in Spain. Fabio and the Teacher Assistants are always ready to empower yourself, make you an autonomous professional, and guide you to a world where continuous learn is mandatory.

Atmosphere is a BIG plus. The staff make you feel like home from the first day and they are always looking after your progress and success. Matadero is a great location in the city, one of the best cultural venues with a lot of space to chill and relax when you are working hard on your projects.

Friday afternoon is time for Ironbeers where you can meet Alumni and make networking with other tech professionals. 2 or 3 times per week they organise open house talks about different tech related topics with important professionals of different fields.

Last days of the bootcamp we’ve met with dozens of companies from different sectors. From startups to big companies decided to hire us as UX/UI designers. I can’t be more excited about my professional future!

I just completed 9-week Ironhack web development bootcamp and need to say it's been an incredible experience. I came into this experience with minimal programming ability and left with all the tools needed to build modern, full-stack applications.

When I first started I was asking myself "can I do this?", now I'm asking "what's the coolest thing I can build next?". I'm confident that this experience will carry me far in my professional carreer as a developer.

It's a hard course. The content and homework will take up every day of your week during the 9 week course, so be prepared to work and struggle and try the most you can every day. It's worth it.

The professors of the course are super knowledgable and readily available for questions whenever you have doubts or need a push in the right direction. The staff overall also provides a lot of programming and outside events, job development assistance and career assistance at the end of the course, including a hiring week at the end of it all where you can connect with employers and show off your projects and skills.

This course surpassed my expectations so many ways and helped me do so much more than I thought possible in the time it took to learn it.

Overall my experience was very satisfactory.  I knew almost nothing about coding and felt like a left knowing the basics, and where and how to continue my studies.

The curriculum, when it comes to beginners, is very complete, although I have heard from more expreinced programmers that it teaches some technologies that are no longer relevant.  Still I feel it escaletes in a way that it doesn't overwhelm people who are just starting to learn this language.

The TA's where the best part of the course, they were completly devoted to the cohort on a very personal level, doing overtime and putting in all the effort they had so that we could get a good learning experience out of this. I will be rating the Instructor 5 stars, refering to the TA's.

Unfortunetly I cannot say the same for our instructor, who didn't seem very invested in our cohort, and after encountering some frustrations with the curriculum I guess, lost all interest in teaching.  

The staff was very friendly, but seemed to be a bit desorginzed.  I say this because there where several trips and exchanges of personal, which didn't leave much time for us to get to know them and learn from them.

One thing I would advise strongly, which I think was a big error in my experience, is to never leave the cohort with less than 1 instructor and 2 TA's.  Unfortunatley in our last two weeks, which coincided with the two weeks we had to prepare our final projects, our teacher left every day at 1pm, and didn't help much during the morning he was there, and one of our TA's took another position within Ironhack, which left just one person helping a class of 20.  This was extremly unfair, for everybody had doubts and needed help, but there was only one person to clear them.  Thankfully in the second week a new TA joined the class, but even though he had good predisposition, he had not been with the cohort during the whole course, so the amount of help he could provide was different.

Still, taking the good and the bad, I think I learnd a lot, and I'm happy with the experience.

During February and March I've coursed the UX/UI Bootcamp in Ironhack. It was the experience of my life!

At the beginning of the course I didn't  have many expectations that the User Experience world was serious enough or that there were many job opportunities.

After these two months of intensive course, I discovered something that I'm super passionate about and that I now consider fundamental in the future of every company. I believe that the UX is beginning to be more and more recognized, and companies are realizing how important it is.

Ironhack is a magnificent course, in which I have learned by doing. All have been practical cases that assimilate the reality with which you will face tomorrow. We have learned both working methodologies (design thinking, lean, agile) and tools (canvas) and above all, a clear structure of how to carry out a project from the beginning (UX) through design (UI) to the end (presentations of projects to the bosses, recognized people and classmates). We also had a week in which we learned the basics of front-end to know how to behave in the working world with the developers and work hand in hand with them!

In short, without hesitation I would do this course a thousand and one more times!

The teachers and all the activities were TOP!

Stop by the Campus in Madrid and get to know how they work!

I attended the IronHack Web Development full time course and absolutely loved it! It was really intense, I found myself studying every weekend instead of going out with friends, but it was worth it. 
You will learn to create awesome full stack web applications with MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node.js, HTML and CSS. 
The teachers and TA's are great, the classroom dynamic is fun and you get to know a lot of people that by the end of the bootcamp will be very good friends. 
I must say that it's a hard course, you need to work really hard in order to comprehend and master every topic, you will struggle but in the end you will prevail. 
By the third week you'll be programming a video game, and you will no longer recognize who you were before. You will realize how much you've learn and what amazing things you can make from scratch. 
I highly recommend this course and I invite every single person who ever had the urge to be a programmer to change their life, apply, and become an Ironhacker.

I was used to a more traditional high school or university learning method (based on memorizing useless stuff which one forgets in just a few days), but now I can say that I have learned things that actually matter to me. Not only in the UX/UI part, but also in the personal one. It´s been a completely different environment for me, with completely different problems and completely different people. But I just have good words for them. From the teachers, TAs and staff; to my classmates. All of them have been the support that I needed to complete this stage of my life, being there for me whenever I needed them.

But I won´t lie, I´ve thought about quitting. Several times. The fact of being “alone” in such a challenge, was the hardest thing for me to deal with. No free time, none of my friends, (almost) none of my family, neither my native language speakers… I remember not speaking English after 5 pm the first days of classes just because I was tired of it. Now, I have daily English conversations and I don´t even realize in which language I´m talking.

I´m not pretending to be a role model with an inspirational story to tell, I promise. I just feel I have the need to share this experience and how grateful I am for having the opportunity to live it. Thank you all, IronFamily.

I was at a point in my career where I needed to completely change, and in Ironhack I have found the training, professionals and colleagues I needed to do so. I could not be happier with my decision. It has been nine of the most intense weeks of my life, but also the most productive and effective. Two months in which my life has only been Ironhack.

Smile, enjoy and have attitude. Keep an open mind, manage frustration, work as a team and be willing to learn. Then you will feel like the future is yours.

It's worth it

I attended the IronHack Web Development full time course starting January 2018 and would absolutely recommend this course to others! I started this course not knowing anything about foding at all. My first two weeks were kind of hard to get the hang of and catch up to the others around me, but honestly between the instructor and the two best TA's I was quickly able to get the hang of it. One of the most important skills I learne din the course that I will take through my whole career is when you get stuck make sure you take atleast two hours searching every resource you can before approaching your teacher or boss with the question. Which then leads into don't be afraid to ask questions, just mkae sure you have all the evidence to back up that you've tried your hardest to locate the answer and truly they will respect that. Overall I had such an amazing experience and am thankful for the course. As goes for the instructors/TA's, the instructor I would say did his best but I would not have done as well if it weren't for my TA Sandra. She is easily the most dedicated and amazing type of support ive got from any instructor even with my four years of college! The school environment is awesome! We had cornhole campionships with the class and hello free beer! Also the career advisor Brito is a genius! He really dedicates his time to helping you get a job and not just any job but the one for you! In summary I had an amazing experience here and hope you do too!!

If you're serious about learning how to be a developer and getting a job as one, I don't think there are many better routes to go than attending this bootcamp. Ironhack provides for you the resources to learn an awful lot about development thanks to its former teacher Nizar. It really comes down to how badly you want to work to stand out and have enough knowledge and programming ability to get hired. If you put in the work, you will stand out and Ironhack's placements manager Brito will get you interviews. Ironhack's networking opportunities were just as instrumental as the learning opportunities towards getting me a position as a developer. If you're looking to just show up and magically become a talented programmer who's going to get hired, you're probably going to end up disappointed. Becoming even a remotely talented programmer takes an awful lot of time, and two months isn't much. If you're willing to sacrifice as much of it as you can, then this course will be well worth your time and money.

If you are ready to give a flip to your career or you just want to add a great tool to your resume, Ironhack Miami is the place for you, they offer an immersive 9 weeks boot camp that is just amazing, the best thing beside their curriculum is definitely the people, every single member is there to help, if your not completely satisfied on every part of the process they are right there to help you in every step until you feel back on track.

It is a very challenging experience and you need to be 100% committed to succeed, and as much as you put an effort to excel on this cohort the more you'll get back from it.

Even now after finishing the course we're getting placement support from Brito and all of the updates for the networking events to keep ourselves connected to the program.

I personally want to thank to all of the staff and the instructors: Alia, Jess, Pat, Savy, Marissa, Brito, Alex and Maite; all of them were an important part on my process to become a UX/UI Designer and I can't wait to be in the position to give back to the community.

Sincerely, 
Marcos