Ironhack

I was a waiter before doing Ironhack,I had no coding experience and after two months I can transform my ideas into web apps. One of my biggest achievements here is reaching the level I  wanted to reach  as a developer. My learning curve was exponential and I'm proud to say that I'm a full stack developer. I met amazing people, amazing teachers and TA's, I leave Ironhack with great friends. We were always helping each other in class. I loved doing my third project with a friend.

I recommend Ironhack to anyone who is looking to change career!

I graduated in October 2018 and it exceeded my expectations! I worked as a HR manager in my “previous” life, but wanted to follow the technology trends and not become a ‘technosaur’. The Ironhack community is amazing and it manages to balance both the learning and social aspects perfectly.  Surely it was difficult at times, but being surrounded by a  a great team of students and instructors helps a lot. I came to Ironhack without hardly any knowledge of programming and nevertheless I was offered a job only halfway through the course!

I attended Ironhack's full time Web Dev course in Miami from August to October of 2018 and had the time of my life.

With no previous coding experience, I discovered that I had a great passion for coding and Ironhack's curriculum as well as its great instructors were able to help me turn that passion into a talent.

We were also the first cohort to learn React.js as a front end programming language and they did a fairly good job adapting the new curriculum on the fly considering how new teaching the language was.

Ironhack was something I grew to look forward to every morning, despite my hour long commute.  I walked into a classroom of strangers in august and left being able to count every single member of my cohort as a great friend.  I really loved my time here and I can't recommend Ironhack enough if you even have the slightest urge to turn coding into your career. 

Ironhack has given me the opportunity to refocus my professional career. In just five months (from the moment I met Ironhack, going through the realization of the botcamp and ending the hiring week), my professional career has taken a 180 degree turn: from a dancer to UX Designer.
I have received several job offers and I am going to start working in a company like Junior UX Designer only two weeks after finishing.
Without prior experience, Ironhack has given me the tools to face the world of work and, what is more important, it has given me the confidence to demonstrate my potential in this sector and the desire to continue learning.

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Lessons broken. Fact! You will spend more time trying to debug than actually learning. Their lessons are worse than any tutorial you can find online. Vague lessons and the best they do is providing a link to the online documentation for the subject in question.

I took the part time course and I regret every single penny of the 12000 dollars I’ve invested on this.

The people are superb and think they’re better than you. And they will treat you like that! The Saturday presentations were marked by someone saying that he could be with his family, taking the day off, but noooo, he drove many many miles to be there for helping you. And you’re paying them 12000 dollars...

The classes are just something you could do by yourself: reading the broken lessons. And then, the professor has to spend 2 hours trying to fix the problem before starting reading the lesson again. The exercises you’re supposed to do during the class you have to do by yourself as “homework” and guess what: they’re broken. And the lessons are broken. So, reserve at least 3 hours of your day trying to debugging.

I just dropped out their “hiring fair” because they started treating people like they were making them a favor. Like if we was there begging for a job and they were the God of Jobs.

The staff is constantly changing. So expect you getting in to the building using your fob (you have to make a 50 bucks deposit for that) and the new security guy coming running, blocking your way and asking who you are.

Terrible experience. Even the Udemy online course has better quality than Ironhack. And the price is about 10% of the incredible 12000 dollars for people being mean, rude and ignorant to you.

It’s difficult to describe what I’ve lived in the last weeks, perhaps the word is UNIQUE and IRREPLACEABLE.

A few weeks ago I decided to do the web development bootcamp at Ironhack, I had no prior experience in programming as I worked in admin and logistics. Having finished the course, I know programming is what I want to do and I want to keep learning about all types of technologies.

¿What did I do during these 9 weeks? Coding, coding, coding. It could sound boring but it was far from it. When you do something you like, you don’t mind putting in the hard work. Here you learn many technologies from day one, and even though it’s very difficult d and very intense, the result is worth it: my colleagues because friends, the staff is always there to help you even outside their working hours and, most of all, I know have the tools to become a junior programmer.

Ironhack has been a transformative experience, a very good opportunity to shape my professional carreer.

I graduated from Odontology and worked as a dentist for a few years and even though it’s a great career, it got to a point where I wasn’t motivated anymore and I wanted to do something I was truly passionate about.

I’ve always liked technology and I saw the opportunity of learning web development in a very short period of time to see if I would like it. The bootcamp requieres a lot of hard work and if you don’t have prior programming experience each day is a challenge with a big learning curve. You work hard and have daily frustrations, but it is completely worth it. I’m very happy to have done it and I truly believe anyone can learn to program.

Now I want to keep learning and work as a programmer, and it would be great for me to be able to unite Technology and Dentistry in a project that helps improve the oral health of people.

When I finished my Telecomunications Ingeneer carreer in 2006 I started to work in a sector that had nothing to do with what I had studied. I felt comfortable since the beginning on sales world, but somewhere inside I felt a bit disappointed of not having been able to dedicate myself professionally to the sector for which I had been dedicated my studies. I would’ve never thought that 12 years after I could find the way to reinvent myself, come back to the roots I should never have left.

“Ten years of no coding is too much”, “You are too old to begin again”, “You are out of date”, “It’s gonna be too much for you”... All the signs indicated that it was going to be a complicated process and there was a long way from my actual situation to the successful future in where I could work in something that I really love. IronHack was the answer to the question I asked myself all the time: How could I put my feet in this sector?

Everything you have read about IronHack is true. In only 9 weeks they are able to train you for being a junior WEB developer. Probably it will be the most intense 9 weeks of your life, your mind will be reorganized in a new way in order to understand all the information and new concepts. You will be stressed in a new amazing way… and sure… you are going to cry. But take it easy… it’s all part of the learning process. There’s only one thing left to say and it’s  an irrefutable truth: you will make relationships for the rest of your life and you’re going to love it!!!!

By far one of the most richful experiences I've had. 

I didn't know what to expect , everything seemed too "perfect". But now, a month after graduating, I can say without a doubt that enrolling has been the best decision I've made in a long time.

I didn't have any kind of previous experience, and already before graduating, I had an offer. 

Of course there were ups and downs, but I would do it again and again. You don't only come out with the knowledge, but friends for life. 

A million thanks to everyone at Ironhack!