Ironhack

I am a recently graduated Industrial Design Engineer, and always felt that university was wasting my creativity and motivation. I started coding by chance during the last year of my degree and tried to improve a bit my coding skills with few results with a lot of time invested. After that, I decided to join a bootcamp, such a difficult decision! Finally, applied for Ironhack’s one.

 

Two months later I have to say that it has been one of my personal and professional best decisions of my life. Obviously, here you’ll learn a lot of programming from learning units which are constantly revised, and they put a lot of effort and resources so you can find a nice job. But It would be unfair to define Ironhack just like this, some goals.

 

In Ironhack I found really good teachers that help and encourage you during the whole bootcamp. Same people who helped the cohort to reach a good work environment where all interests, levels and profiles fit. And a really dedicated staff that really care all your worries and will do everything to change what you don’t like and make you feel like at home. They organize a lot of interesting events every week and, of course, some parties :)

After becoming a family for a couple of months: students, teachers, staff, ironhackers... I realized that what makes Ironhack special is the passion we all share and how newbies are involved with this same passion.

 

It has been super intense, sometimes hard, but always exciting. I learned a lot and I strongly recommend it to everyone! Good Luck! ;D

 

The overall experience has been AWESOME. Although the bootcamp is exhausting and demands so much effort.

People make it incredible. 

The nice environment and the cool activities after and during the lessons come included! The Stuff is doing quality control Typeforms and 1 on 1 interviews every week so everything is perfect! 

There's nothing really to complain about :) Now the bootcamp is over and there's a bittersweet feeling. I really needed this to finish but I'll miss it a lot!

The only thing I could say is... during the hiring day, there were so many work opportunities requiring React and this is a pitty :( Maybe, and just maybe, they should teach React instead of Angular. 

Anyway, if you're dubtful, go ahead with Ironhack, it's the best thing to do.

 

I studied Industrial design and just before becoming an ironhacker I used to design satellites for Airbus Space.  My experience at Ironhack has involved a mixture of feelings, from absolute joy to physical and mental exhaustion, even frustration sometimes, but overall it has been amazing. I have spent the past two months with the most amazing bunch of people in the world. We've had several teachers and I have learnt a lot form all of them. Now I can develop a digital product end-to-end, I have acquired a handful lot of techniques and resources that I can apply to the projects I'll face in the future. Also I have learn the value of listening to your users and how failing early and testing often is vital to keep you in the game! I have enjoyed the experience a lot, but I think that the thing I've liked most (and the thing I'll miss most) is the comradeship we've developed within this 2 months. We've leant on each other and we've learnt everything we could from one another.

Before my UX/UI bootcamp in IronHack I was studying Computer Sciences and ADE at UC3M, I also did the Web Development Bootcamp two years ago.

The experience went really well overall in both bootcamps. Some weeks were very stressful, but it’s nice to learn to live situations of pressure. Time have past really fast and I will miss spending my time here.

I learned to teamwork, I learned a lot of new methodologies and I acquired a really good basis to continue developing my career as a designer.

The things that I liked the most were meeting a lot of really good people, the networking and the good vibes of the place.

I used to work in Advertising, developing and ideating digital strategies for brands. As an advertising creative and designer, I always felt that it was something missing in my design process. Everything I developed was based on my experience and intuition. That's when I discovered Ironhack and joined them thanks to a Wallapop Scholarship. The best about Ironhack is that you learn x3. You learn from your teachers, from your classmates, and from former students. Furthermore, Ironhack culture helps you get the best of you without giving up the social part. You end up with an up to date knowledge, autonomy to keep learning every day and the best connections in the industry. 

Before Ironhack I worked as an architect in Germany. As I love design in all its forms and wanted to get into the digital world, I got into the UX Bootcamp when I returned to Madrid, and I have discovered that the architecture and the world of the UX / UI have a lot to do.

The Ironhack experience has been incredible, not only for the amount of things we have learned but also for the human quality of the entire team (teachers, TAs and staff) and my colleagues. I have made many friends!

I have learned EVERYTHING! Research and UX tools, design principles, typography and color palettes, to look for references and where to look for them ... But above all methodologies and different ways of working, because we had 6 different teachers, each one a crack in their own way, and each taught us a different way of understanding the issues, focused on one point or another and taught you examples of the real world, so at all times we had contact with the world of work and what we were going to do next.

What I liked the most was without a doubt the people. From Ironhack, camaraderie and teamwork are very much encouraged and then when it comes to work it shows and is wonderful. The level of demand is high and we must take the final project forward in just 2 weeks! Working hand in hand with your colleagues not only helps you in many moments but also makes the experience more enjoyable. Not only among the UX colleagues but also with the web ones. It is incredible to be proposing a project and to be able to talk to a programmer about the doubts that arise.

It has undoubtedly been a wonderful experience that I would recommend to anyone who is considering getting into the world of UX.

Ironhack’s UX/UI design bootcamp was pretty intense. Be prepared to go from zero to hero in eight weeks with the help of their amazing staff, industry leading guest speakers, mentors, leaders and teachers. My cohort had five different teachers who brought forth their own special skill set to the particular module they taught. Horacio, our TA, was an iron hack grad and was always there for us. Ironhack is located in Building Inc which is a hub for several start ups in the Miami tech eco system which makes it a very motivating environment to work in. While and after your time at Ironhack, Brito- Ironhack’s placements manager  takes you on his own career bootcamp. He helps you polish up your resume, interview skills, and portfolio in order to get you in the right direction after you graduate. Overall they have a system which seems to work regardless if you are someone trying to brush up on skills or wanting to change careers. Definitely be prepared to put in work, sacrifice time and all that good stuff. The resources and network is there for success at Ironhack. It’s all in what you make of it.

I recently graduated from the UX/UI  full-time bootcamp in Miami. It was an amazing experience. The class structure and the instructors were great. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to enter the field or to learn about the field regardless of your experience. My background is in business / entrepreneur and I was trying to find a way to put an idea into a MVP to look for investors. This class helped me to understand all the available tools to make your job easier and also some techniques to make the process of building an App systematic and consistent. Although my intention was not to become a full time UX/UI designer, these new set of skills complements my background very well. 

/*very good courses, teachers and staff, I enjoyed to be ironhacker.

I liked all what I did: "my realisations, my job etc...".

Without any doubt, i recommand ironhack*/

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Ironhack is the best school I've ever been. They have an environment full of good vibes and extraordinary people. During the course, they help you believe in you and reach the goal at all times even when the course ends. I am fortunate to have been through this course. 

I have to say Nizar (the instructor) is the BEST. He helps you go through everything and makes sure you truly understand what he teaches you. And Brito, he just never gives up on you. He truly wants to make sure you end up where you actually want to be. 

I first heard about Ironhack because I lived close to their Miami campus and saw they were having a workshop on HTML/CSS. I had done some basic web dev back in school but hadn't touched it in years. Being in the classroom for the workshop brought back all the fun I had in initially building awful looking myspace pages and the like using only a laptop. I was hooked.

I soon applied for the full-stack web bootcamp, leaving a good job at the time because I knew this bootcamp would take me in the direction I wanted to go. I wanted to be able to build applications to help my teams and clients, and knew that I had enough curiosity and perseverance to actually likely make it happen.

This bootcamp is no walk in the park. I quit my job, didn't go out with friends, and focused as much of my energy as humanly possible on grasping the changing concepts. Each day we had a morning lesson, exercises, an afternoon lesson, and then a night project. While instructors did help those in the class that were falling behind, the class moves fast and you have to give it your all to progress. The instructors were not only an intelligent, hardworking group, they took care of each question that came about, and often stayed after hours to help with projects, going far above and beyond. The classmates were a driven bunch. It was exciting seeing each person, coming from vastly different backgrounds, excelling and struggling at different stages.

After the bootcamp, we all make one final application during a 2 week sprint, and then present these to Ironhack and the community, a group of maybe 80-100. Afterwards networking happens and then its on you! 

I found a full stack web developer role a few months after graduation, through a recruiter friend of mine from back home. This did require me moving back to Philadelphia from Miami, which was a little sad but it is a reality. Please don't assume that you will immediately find a job right where you studied, you may have to pick up and move to find something!

In conclusion, I highly recommend the Ironhack experience. You will learn the basics of full stack web development. You will learn how to make real, production applications. You'll learn about the nuances that are in modern web development, and learn what you need to learn next. If you work hard enough, you will be able to convince hiring managers that you are now an entry level software engineer.