Springboard
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Springboard is an online learning platform that prepares students for the tech industry’s most in-demand careers with comprehensive, mentor-led online programs in software engineering, data science, UI/UX design, cybersecurity, tech sales, and more. All Springboard courses are 100% online, remote, and self-paced throughout an average of 6-9 months. Springboard acts as a support system, coach, and cheerleader for working professionals who are ready to level-up or make a major career shift. Students have access to a unique community of industry mentors, thought leaders, and alumni, who are on hand to offer insights, networking opportunities, and support throughout the program and well past graduation. Every Springboard student is matched with a personal student advisor and industry mentor who guides them throughout the program through regular video calls.
To apply, applicants fill out an online form, take an aptitude test, then talk with a school representative about their background and motivations. For the data science career track a background in statistics and/or programming is required. For the UX career track, students should have academic or professional background in user design or development-oriented fields.
Before graduation, Springboard’s career services team supports students in their job search, helping prepare them for interviews and networking, and facilitates their transition into the tech industry. Springboard's programs are backed with a job guarantee.
Springboard’s support does not end when students graduate. All graduates benefit from an extensive support network encompassing career services, 1:1 career coaching, networking tips, resume assistance, interview prep, and salary negotiation. Since Springboard was founded in 2013, 94% of eligible graduates secured a job within one year, earning an average salary increase of $26,000.
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- Bijay Kumar kAharData Scientist • Applicant • Data Science Career Track • OnlineVerified by LinkedInJun 15, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Not to go for this course for Data Science
Do not go for this course you will end up losing your 1.65 lac rupees with zero learning.
The structure is = -5/5 (negative 5 on 5 rating.)
Tech Support for learning/coding = 0 on 5 (0/5)
Jobs - they will give you the LinkedIn jobs URL
which you can also get , simply using a LinkedIn pro.
i can write a lot but it's a waste of my time and your time - just don't go for this course or write me a mail on google then i can explain all pro and cons
Springboard India Operations of Springboard
Program Management
Jun 23, 2020
Hi Bijay,Thank you for your recent feedback. We’re sorry to hear you feel that way about your Springboard experience. Our goal is to help our students realize their full potential, and if we have failed you in this regard, we apologize.We’ve had the time to carefully review your feedback and speak to your mentor. We wanted to take this opportunity to go over a number of things highlighted in your recent review of Springboard and share our perspective in the hope of clearing up any misunderstandings.CurriculumYour feedback on the Springboard curriculum does not seem to match your recent review. To our knowledge, you did not raise any concerns about the curriculum at any point during the course. If we had received any feedback from you during the course, rest assured we would have done everything in our power to help get you back on track and ensure you had a positive experience.Career servicesOur review shows you have already begun making use of the Springboard career services and job support. However, our records show you are only at about 35% completion rate of these services. Transitioning into a new career is not easy. Trust us, we get it. This is why we do our best to help our graduates through extensive career services in our courses, which we offer for a period of up to six months after course completion. We also offer solid job training, such as mock interviews, to help our graduates better prepare for the job search ahead.We believe that you will be able to make some progress if you make full use of the job support and career services available to you; we encourage you to give it another try and please let us know if you have any questions or concerns along the way. We’re to help!We know changing careers is a daunting time for many of our graduates. That’s why we always strive to listen to our students’ feedback and improve where we can to help make this process as smooth and painless as possible. We want to thank you again for taking the time to write this review, and we hope you’ll get in touch with us directly to discuss the specifics of your course and how we could have better managed the transition. Thanks again, Bijay! - Vaibhav AgarwalGraduate • Data Science Career Track • OnlineVerified by LinkedInJun 15, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Springboard India: A forgettable Journey
After using the hype of Springboard in USA, SPRINGBOARD managed to get easy start in India. They got many applicants even at a high price point considering many other MOOCs are way cheaper here. But little did we know that we were going into a sea with no shores.
It has been more than a year when they have started functioning in India with a new batch coming in every month. They threw every heavy word to make us see Gold everywhere when there was only rustic iron. A hope brimmed among...After using the hype of Springboard in USA, SPRINGBOARD managed to get easy start in India. They got many applicants even at a high price point considering many other MOOCs are way cheaper here. But little did we know that we were going into a sea with no shores.
It has been more than a year when they have started functioning in India with a new batch coming in every month. They threw every heavy word to make us see Gold everywhere when there was only rustic iron. A hope brimmed among Data Science aspirants that (as springboard was saying we were among 20% aspirants they selected) we were going to be successful. Even I was told that they will focus more on us as I was among the initial batches. (Note: They didn't even took a puzzle test that they put up on website. They even lied that my prep course will start immediately just for me to make the payment and then no response for few days. Their marketing guy says any lie he/she can to make you sign up.)
At first the course seemed good. Many of us were blinded by the shine Springboard was manufacturing. But mist started to clear after a month. It was all curated content from the internet which was not made clear from the start. I let it go. Their main USP was weekly half hour call with the mentor. Here it comes to Luck which mentor a student get. They didn't had much mentors here to use algorithm to match with mentee, so they just matched as they hired a mentor with no particular reason that why we were matched with that expert. The mentor is someone who has Industry experience yet how can they impart such knowledge in half hour in week. Even if they can guide us, are they really prepared for it or going with the flow? Did Springboard gave any training how their course structure is or what they require from mentor to do for mentee? A Big No. It seemed every mentor was handling their mentee as they could. As feedback from many fellow students, some turned out good and some not so. Thus for many it felt like a gamble of a very large amount. Due to ambition of becoming data scientist and already taking the decision, I moved on.
Now we cannot ask every question in half hour with the mentor. So we have Teaching Assistant. They had one who recently graduated from a prestigious engineering college in India. After some of my interaction, my concern was that he was not a good fit for this role as he doesn't have any teaching experience, smart doesn't mean you have the ability to teach or help someone. Many of my questions to him came back to me as another question. Mostly why do you wanna know or in which part of course this question refers too, when the answer could be simple. I raised my concern but in vain. I simply stopped asking questions but googling it myself thus spending more time for answers. Also, their office hours seemed more of a formality.
Then there was student advisor who interacts with students and solve their concerns. At start she seemed good, listening to the concerns and trying to solve them. But there were very few students, as the numbers began to increase every month, her response time increased further to a point when it took a month and a half for the my certificate to rectify. But the course went on.
There were many parts in the course which seemed very distracted from the course. The difficulty level of a part was sometimes low and then jumped high as we were doing a doctorate on that particular topic. The main part which was Machine learning felt like a game walkthrough than we actually playing the game. Few parts were rushed and few repetitive. But I did not complain, even to myself and used search engine.(Note: According to them we can find everything on the internet so learn to use it.) Their cost was not justified yet I did not squeal.
The point where came the breaking point, is their Career services. They give 100% Job Guarantee but all I can see is throwing someone in a deep sea after showing them a video of someone swimming and then asking for the person to swim. I think they are giving this guarantee considering the demand in market and effort by an educated and employed student themselves. It worked in USA but it failed miserably in India. It was all due to lack of vision and effort by the management. The management felt immature, incompetent at first. Then at the course end the management felt even more immature and more incompetent. They did not consider the feedback regarding course being not suited for Indian Market and did not update it. They did not consider so many students who were unsatisfied with the career services. Their career calls ran in a loop and as a pre-recorded tape convincing us that they are working on helping us. This convincing started to feel like manipulation when after 5 months and multiple calls even with career services leads ( Yes lead(s), as their lead changed within a year. Might be fed up with overall management itself), I felt I was where I started from. It seemed they didn't even knew what they were doing. It was at the point when their marketing part was working very very hard to get more numbers in.
It was a memorable journey which I wish to forget. If anyone wants to feel the same, then please join Springboard India and I assure you it will be a bumpy ride with a big black hole at the end. - Palash MoonSoftware Engineer • Student • Data Science Career Track • OnlineVerified by LinkedInJun 14, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
All the Hype Promises are fake!!..Please dont fall in their trap
I joined Spring board india Data science Career track in june 2019. here is my experience :
I joined spring board india data science career track 2019. here is my experince:
If you accept starting with Springboard be ready for
-- No job assistance(You will have to find job yourself)
-- 6 months job guarantee is a liar.
-- There are lots of unemployment Spring board alumni.
-- 30 min mentor time once a week is not sufficient an...I joined Spring board india Data science Career track in june 2019. here is my experience :
I joined spring board india data science career track 2019. here is my experince:
If you accept starting with Springboard be ready for
-- No job assistance(You will have to find job yourself)
-- 6 months job guarantee is a liar.
-- There are lots of unemployment Spring board alumni.
-- 30 min mentor time once a week is not sufficient and satisfying.
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it’s not worth at all, simply i can say waste of your hard-earned money and waste of time as well. So called mentors will be not available as per the schedules and they don’t spend much time with the students in explaining their doubts or explaining the concept.
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Next coming to so called office hours, coding support sessions it’s just for the name sake they fix up the sessions without even asking/discussing our availability time, i can they do as per their need.
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They force you to enrol for the course by paying 1.95 Lakhs and they also provide you easy EMI/Loan by third party finance company, after your enrolment they don’t even care/bother about you concerns related to course.
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Most imp thing is, they state you like 100%per job guarantee after the successful completion of your course in 6 months but the hard fact is you can’t complete the course within the stipulated time as they mentioned since you don’t get proper support from mentors/support team after your enrolment in any manner and course is not easy at all as they state you while enrolling.
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Whenever you try to reach support team/student adviser to discuss your concerns they don’t pick your call many times and if they receive the call they just say will come back to you in few min/EOD or will solve within EOD but you don’t get any solutions on time or they try to convince you as per their needs.
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whenever you try to raise your concerns regarding the course, you will get only one statement/answer like you are not attending sessions properly, not following the mentor instructions or you are not spending your time. They will never ever agree their mistakes and listen you concerns as well.
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Most pathetic part - When you say i am not satisfied with the course or if you ask for the cancellation and your money back, they simply say we don’t have refund policy at all and they will again try to convince you to the fullest with the flashy words/statements. It’s like mental harassment.
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My suggestions please don’t waste your hard money and time as well.
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if you are interested to learn data science and to make career transition, we have many institute in Bangalore who offer data science course, ML, AI course with very minimum fee ranges like 15–45k with excellent course structure so please don’t get fool y enrolling Springboard.
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All the videos/materials provided by springboard are available for free in YouTube.
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When the entire course material is free resources why they are charging 1.95 Lakhs I don’t understand
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Mentor ship (mentor call) is something they make as a star of the program. But you will get to interact with your mentor once in a week only for half an hour.
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I never got a chance to discuss in detail with my mentor as there was a time constraint (mentor is be not available after 30min)
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Springboard is not helpful at all, all they are doing now, are blaming the students.
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Whatever the things/words which i explained above, it’s my pathetic experience and wasted money as well.
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Now for the curriculum. This was sadly most dissappointing. The course mainly revolves around data camp courses. And then these are supplemented by youtube lectures from Harvard or other institutions that would talk about the subject with the impression that you have intermediate knowledge of the subject matter, despite it being a beginners intro video to a concept. I have had much better success with the self study resources available on the internet, such as youtube tutorials etc. There was no feel of an actual boot camp teaching you, they basically link you to external sources that aren’t theirs.
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The whole curriculum is just stuff taken off of the internet or LinkedIn learning. Very little original content. A lot of the content can be found by just doing a basic Google search. Overall this course did not live up to its hype.
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I was told that these things do not matter and that you can easily land a job after you get both your projects done. I had done very detailed projects and posted them on github and did everything the career coaches suggested I do. Unfortunately, not a single data science position had reached out to me.
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The program is a complete waste of money and time, one more thing, right after I completed my course, got the certification, In certification also they made blunder mistakes they added advanced ML track concepts like time series Analysis and Recommendation systems which is not an part of my NLP track.
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They dont know how to deal with students in a cordial way, I will not recommend this to anyone who is serious about learning Datascience, you can find their course on youtube for free
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Frankly, I wish that I could get my money back.
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I recommend staying away from wasting your money with them.
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Don’t fall for false advertising.Springboard India Operations of Springboard
Program Management
Jun 23, 2020
Hi Palash,Thank you for your recent feedback. We’re sorry to hear you feel that way about your Springboard experience. Our goal is to help our students realize their full potential, and if we have failed you in this regard, we apologize.To our knowledge, you did not raise any concerns about this at any point during the course. If we had received any feedback from you during the course, rest assured we would have done everything in our power to help get you back on track and ensure you had a positive experience.We’ve had the time to carefully review your feedback and speak to your mentor. We wanted to take this opportunity to go over a number of things highlighted in your recent review of Springboard and share our perspective in the hope of clearing up any misunderstandings.CurriculumThank you for your feedback on our curriculum. We are constantly looking for ways to improve it, and we value feedback like this from our students.Our curriculum comprises curated study material, hands-on exercises, and a combination of mini and capstone projects. This material is either created in-house or curated from external sources and organized to ensure clarity and coherence.We strongly encourage you to do as much as you can to actively participate in the curriculum and learn from the industry experts who have put it together. We believe this is the best way to get real-world experience—particularly in an industry as competitive as the one you’ve chosen.MentorshipWe are sorry to hear our mentorship hours did not work for you. However, we are always happy to discuss workarounds and talk with our students to make sure they are able to speak to their course mentors at a mutually suitable time. We know how much value our students derive from these conversations, and we do everything we can to make sure both students and mentors are happy.In addition, we have listened to student feedback and have increased the number of teaching assistants.Career services and job guaranteeWe are upfront in all our communication that our job guarantee is designed to help graduates make the career transition of their choice through personalized mentoring and career coaching that is tailored to each student’s needs.We are upfront that we are not a placement provider.Our records show that we provided you with a free extension of the usual six-month job guarantee period, which also includes extended access to mentoring, teaching assistance, andcareer coaching.We know changing careers is a daunting time for many of our graduates. That’s why we always strive to listen to our students’ feedback and improve where we can to help make this process as smooth and painless as possible. We want to thank you again for taking the time to write this review, and we hope you’ll get in touch with us directly to discuss the specifics of your course and how we could have better managed the transition. Thanks again, Palash! 
Anish Posim ReddyGraduate • Machine Learning Engineering Career Track • OnlineVerified by GitHubJun 13, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceBest Decision made in my life
Six months ago when I was researching online programs in Machine Learning, I stumbled across ML career track from Springboard and the curated curriculum and the 1:1 mentor support really stood out and made my decision to enroll. After completing the course now, I can say I am very proud of the person I have become in this six months journey and it really put me five years ahead in life. Excellent projects, curriculum and mentors who are very passionate about their subjects and helping ot...Six months ago when I was researching online programs in Machine Learning, I stumbled across ML career track from Springboard and the curated curriculum and the 1:1 mentor support really stood out and made my decision to enroll. After completing the course now, I can say I am very proud of the person I have become in this six months journey and it really put me five years ahead in life. Excellent projects, curriculum and mentors who are very passionate about their subjects and helping others reach their potential makes it a very rewarding experience.- GauthamStudent • Data Science Career Track • OnlineVerified by LinkedInJun 13, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Springboard India Datascience career track honest review
I am an alum of Springboard DSC, I have gone through the course content and to be frank it was really disappointing.The course content is completely available free on YouTube and datacamp.It is not springboard's own material!
The 1:1 mentorship that I had was horrible.My mentor was neither assisting with the project work nor helping to understand concepts well.I dont think it was worth the money I paid.
Onto the career coaching section: Career coaches copy job posts from linked in...I am an alum of Springboard DSC, I have gone through the course content and to be frank it was really disappointing.The course content is completely available free on YouTube and datacamp.It is not springboard's own material!
The 1:1 mentorship that I had was horrible.My mentor was neither assisting with the project work nor helping to understand concepts well.I dont think it was worth the money I paid.
Onto the career coaching section: Career coaches copy job posts from linked in , put them in a PDF/word document and send us via mail and tell us to apply for it.(P.S I can do it without their help too).It was lame.i regret for choosing springboard.I only hope other aspiring data scientists don't opt for this course.This is my honest review - Genevieve SmithGraduate • UX Career Track • OnlineVerified by LinkedInJun 13, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
UX Career Track
I had an awesome experience with Springboard! My mentor always gave me constructive feedback, during our meetings and also via email. The career coaches also did a good job of helping me redesign my resume and gave me important tips regarding the job search. I especially enjoyed working on the IDP (industry design project) because you get real experience working with an existing company, so to me this helped me the most in preparation for a role in UX. - Sasi Kumar SreenadhuStudent • Data Science Career Track • OnlineVerified by LinkedInJun 13, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
"Springboard India Data Science Career Track - Worst Online learning Experience"
Trapping People into Joining: I joined Springboard DSC with lot of hopes to make a transition from my current role. There were very less reviews of Springboard India when I joined, now I realized that Springboard team deletes all the negative reviews for trapping people into this horrible course. I was misguided by the multiple promises made by the admission team during my enrollment.
Course Content: Springboard charges Rs.1, 75,000 for the course. T...Trapping People into Joining: I joined Springboard DSC with lot of hopes to make a transition from my current role. There were very less reviews of Springboard India when I joined, now I realized that Springboard team deletes all the negative reviews for trapping people into this horrible course. I was misguided by the multiple promises made by the admission team during my enrollment.
Course Content: Springboard charges Rs.1, 75,000 for the course. The course content doesn’t teach fundamentals which are very important in long run. Not even a 10% of the content is of Springboard’s own content. More than 60% of the course content is from YouTube and CS lectures which are available for free in the internet. For every topic, they redirect you to either YouTube or some articles in the internet. Most of the curriculum revolves around YouTube and Datacamp courses. Even after repeated feedback on the content, they never even tried to change anything in the content. The content should be thoroughly validated by any industry expert.
Office Hours: This is a complete waste of one hour session. There is no thinking into conducting these sessions. These are only to attract new students by taking sessions on random topics. They don’t care about the understanding level of students.
Support team: There are only two teaching assistants assigned to help all of the Springboard DSC students in India. Whenever someone approaches them with any doubt, they just share an article link without explaining much. Nobody validates the projects/assignments which will be submitted to Springboard as part of their curriculum. There will be no feedback on the projects done.
Finally the Springboard management team, they will be calling continuously until you pay the fee, once the fee is paid. They don’t care whether you are doing the course or not.
If you have any plans for learning Data Science course, then don’t join Springboard course in particular. There are lots of institutes offering better content at 1/100th of the amount Springboard charges.
I Wish, I could get my money back. This post is only to save lot of Data Science enthusiasts from falling into this trap.Springboard India Operations of Springboard
Program Management
Jun 23, 2020
Hi Sasi,Thank you for your recent feedback. We’re sorry to hear you feel that way about your Springboard experience. Our goal is to help our students realize their full potential, and if we have failed you in this regard, we apologize.We’ve had the time to carefully review your feedback and speak to your mentor. We wanted to take this opportunity to go over a number of things highlighted in your recent review of Springboard and share our perspective in the hope of clearing up any misunderstandings.CurriculumThank you for your feedback on our curriculum. We are constantly looking for ways to improve it, and we value feedback like this from our students.Our curriculum comprises curated study material, hands-on exercises, and a combination of mini and capstone projects. This material is either created in-house or curated from external sources and organized to ensure clarity and coherence.We strongly encourage you to do as much as you can to actively participate in the curriculum and learn from the industry experts who have put it together. We believe this is the best way to get real-world experience—particularly in an industry as competitive as the one you’ve chosen.Mentorship hours
We are sorry to hear our mentorship hours did not work for you. However, we are always happy to discuss workarounds and talk with our students to make sure they are able to speak to their course mentors at a mutually suitable time. We know how much value our students derive from these conversations, and we do everything we can to make sure both students and mentors are happy.From our records, we see that you have consistently rated your mentor and career coaching calls highly. We have also spoken to your mentor, who said they are more than happy and willing to provide you with extra time should you need it.Career servicesOur teaching assistants are mapped to courses. We have listened to student feedback and have increased the number of teaching assistants. According to our records, our team helped facilitate a pause in your curriculum for personal reasons and provided you with a free extension so that your learning journey and the subsequent career transition could continue smoothly. This means you will now have a further six months of your job guarantee period after completion of the curriculum.We know changing careers is a daunting time for many of our graduates. That’s why we always strive to listen to our students’ feedback and improve where we can to help make this process as smooth and painless as possible. We want to thank you again for taking the time to write this review, and we hope you’ll get in touch with us directly to discuss the specifics of your course and how we could have better managed the transition. Thanks again, Sasi! - Priyesh MulaniVerified by GitHubJun 13, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
SPRINGBOARD - FRAUD
Hi guys
Today I am here to review my experience with Springboard as a alumni of its Data science Career Track
Just one sentence - Don't take it. Company is Fraud.
I pursued this course because of their title of Job guarantee and wondered that if they are so sure about job guarantee then they must have content worthy and detailed enough to land me a job. But after completing it about 50% I realised that none of their content is original. It's just scrambled from internet and pi...Hi guys
Today I am here to review my experience with Springboard as a alumni of its Data science Career Track
Just one sentence - Don't take it. Company is Fraud.
I pursued this course because of their title of Job guarantee and wondered that if they are so sure about job guarantee then they must have content worthy and detailed enough to land me a job. But after completing it about 50% I realised that none of their content is original. It's just scrambled from internet and piled in their curriculum. Also they use Data Camp premium package of Data Science Course which is just a fill in the blanks for its users. You will know what is it about the topic taught but never will be able to bring it to use because coding doesn't work this way. IF YOU WANT TO ACCESS SPRINGBOARD MATERIAL JUST GO TO GOOGLE AND TYPE SPRINGBOARD EXERCISES GIT-HUB. There you are with access to full curriculum which is again a borrowed material from different free websites of data science.
Other than this before taking the course I was promised by their team that springboard will place interviews for me with different companies when I will complete 70% of curriculum which is a lie because when I discussed this with there ex career coaches, they told me that you have to apply yourself. Springboard don't place interviews for you.
Coming to their Mentor assistance thats just a 5 min call in a week . Just a formality which mentors do. In real they don't care about your doubts, progress, growth. I felt that mentor didn't knew anything about my learning and the assignments that I submitted maybe not even reviews my work on Capstone projects. Me personally was told to look up to google and youtube whenever I asked doubt from my mentor. And why will they when the organization itself doesn't care about you. Springboard support team is filled with lazy and sleepyheads.
Office hours in which they acquire some data scientist working professional to discuss a topic is a utter waste of time. Session is filled with student who know a lot already and newbies. So the discussion in call deviates from the topic everytime to unrelated answering of literally stupid questions. Leaves you with self-doubt.
Specialized ML track gives you options to select between Advance ML topics, NLP, Deep Learning. Again a pile of unstructured and irrelevant content and I think all the tracks have same content almost no matter what you take.
Those who are from non technical background turn back spare yourself.1
My advice as a victim of Springboard- If you are looking to join Springboard to learn data science and get a job after investing 2 lakhs. Dont do it. Utter waste of your time, money and effort. There are plenty of cheap ways to learn data science . SAY NO TO SPRINGBOARD.
Springboard India Operations of Springboard
Program Management
Jun 23, 2020
Hi Priyesh,Thank you for your recent feedback. We’re sorry to hear you feel that way about your Springboard experience. Our goal is to help our students realize their full potential, and if we have failed you in this regard, we apologize.We’ve had the time to carefully review your feedback and speak to your mentor. We wanted to take this opportunity to go over a number of things highlighted in your recent review of Springboard and share our perspective in the hope of clearing up any misunderstandings.Curriculum
Our curriculum comprises curated study material, hands-on exercises, and a combination of mini and capstone projects. This material is either created in-house or curated from external sources and organized to ensure clarity and coherence.In your feedback to us, you stated that you would have preferred live sessions. As soon as we launched our online program, we invited you to participate but did not hear back.Mentorship hours and callsWe are sorry to hear our mentorship hours did not work for you. However, we are always happy to discuss workarounds and talk with our students to make sure they are able to speak to their course mentors at a mutually suitable time. We know how much value our students derive from these conversations, and we do everything we can to make sure both students and mentors are happy.Our mentorship calls usually last for 30 minutes—and often extend beyond that at mentors and students’ discretion. We are surprised to hear that your calls lasted only 5 minutes. We have also spoken to your mentor, who said they are more than happy and willing to provide you with extra time should you need it. Our team has also been trying to reach out to you to better understand what happened.Job guaranteeWe are upfront in all our communication that our job guarantee is designed to help graduates make the career transition of their choice through personalized mentoring and career coaching that is tailored to each student’s needs.We are upfront that we are not a placement provider.We know changing careers is a daunting time for many of our graduates. That’s why we always strive to listen to our students’ feedback and improve where we can to help make this process as smooth and painless as possible. We want to thank you again for taking the time to write this review, and we hope you’ll get in touch with us directly to discuss the specifics of your course and how we could have better managed the transition. Thanks again, Priyesh! - Vishwam Singh(Springboard Student)Data Science Career Track • OnlineVerified by LinkedInJun 13, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
"***My Experience or Journey with Springboard***#SAY NO TO SPRINGBOARD"
Cons: Course-Fee-17,5000/-
#SAY NO TO SPRINGBOARD
1.Joined Springboard with a aspiration of becoming of data scientist but got totally fooled when i saw the curriculm and the way they are just taking materials from other Ed-tech websites and just serving us.
2.Job gurantee and mentorship is totally very unorganised and very falsely implemented and not at all good .
3.There are lot of false promises and many students who are completing the course are not at all sat...Cons: Course-Fee-17,5000/-
#SAY NO TO SPRINGBOARD
1.Joined Springboard with a aspiration of becoming of data scientist but got totally fooled when i saw the curriculm and the way they are just taking materials from other Ed-tech websites and just serving us.
2.Job gurantee and mentorship is totally very unorganised and very falsely implemented and not at all good .
3.There are lot of false promises and many students who are completing the course are not at all satisfied with the course and curriculum and left unemplOyed
4.This Course is not going to "CONVERT YOU A DATA SCIENTIST" as the curriculm is not well updated and not at all well structured
5.They demand huge amount of money for this course which they get it from other edtech websites like khan academy,Datacamp and youtube videos which we can easily get it in small pay
6.There cost weekly basis
****** WHEN I ASKED FOR REFUND THIS CALCULATION THEY GAVE ME****
Course Fee/Block Payment: Rs. 17,5000/-
Course Duration (Weeks) - 32
Per Week Amount - Rs. 5,469/-
Duration of Student (Weeks) - 6 months = 24 weeks
Total Amount - 5469*24 = 1,31,250/-
Total Deduction (round off) - 1,30,000/-
Refund amount: 45,000/-
***** THIS IS TO TOTALLY FRAUD AND BASELESS PRICE******
7.Even nothing was transperent on offer letter about weekly cost and all,they are just fooling around people just to fill there pocket and looting people hard earn money
*****OFFICE HOURS IS ANOTHER TWIST IN THE COURSE******
-> HERE THEY SAY THAT WE HAVE INDUSTRY EXPERTS WHO WILL GUIDE AND YOU WILL LEARN FROM THEM.SO THE REALITY IS ONCE A WEEK SOME INDUSTRY EXPERT COMES TAKE A ONE HOUR SESSION ON ANY RANDOM TOPIC,FOR THEM IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT STUDENT UNDERSTANDING LEVEL IS AND TILL WHERE HE HAS COMPLETED HIS TOPIC
FOR EXAMPLE: "YOUR ARE IN FIRST UNIT AND THEY WILL TAKE SESSION ON 8 UNIT"
-> THERE COURSE IS TOTALLY GOING TO BRING FRUSTRATION ON YOU MAINLY WHEN YOU ARE WORKING FULL TIME AND DOING THIS COURSE AND PRICE IS NOT AT ALL WORTH THE MONEY
CONCLUSION: PLEASE SAVE YOUR MONEY BECAUSE MARKET IS FULL OF FRAUD PEOPLE AND THEY WILL JUST PLAY WITH YOUR DREAM BY LOOTING YOU.
#SAY NO TO SPRINGBOARD
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Jun 23, 2020
Hi Vishwam,Thank you for your recent feedback. We’re sorry to hear you feel that way about your Springboard experience. Our goal is to help our students realize their full potential, and if we have failed you in this regard, we apologize.We’ve had the time to carefully review your feedback and speak to your mentor. We wanted to take this opportunity to go over a number of things highlighted in your recent review of Springboard and share our perspective in the hope of clearing up any misunderstandings.CurriculumOur records show that you are enrolled in the data science prep program but that you have not yet submitted any assignments.The prep program was designed to get you skill-ready for our data science program. Our curriculum comprises curated study material, hands-on exercises, and a combination of mini and capstone projects. This material is either created in-house or curated from external sources and organized to ensure clarity and coherence.We strongly encourage you to do as much as you can to actively participate in the curriculum and learn from the industry experts who have put it together. We believe this is the best way to get real-world experience—particularly in an industry as competitive as data science.Job guaranteeUnfortunately, participants in our data science prep program are not yet eligible for the Springboard job guarantee.However, our Data Science Career Track, which you can gain access to once you have completed and graduated from the data science prep course, has a six-month job guarantee.Mentorship hours
We are sorry to hear our mentorship hours did not work for you. However, we are always happy to discuss workarounds and talk with our students to make sure they are able to speak to their course mentors at a mutually suitable time. We know how much value our students derive from these conversations, and we do everything we can to make sure both students and mentors are happy.We know changing careers is a daunting time for many of our graduates. That’s why we always strive to listen to our students’ feedback and improve where we can to help make this process as smooth and painless as possible. We want to thank you again for taking the time to write this review, and we hope you’ll get in touch with us directly to discuss the specifics of your course and how we could have better managed the transition. Thanks again, Vishwam! - Jacob WojcikStudent • Data Science Career Track Prep • OnlineVerified by LinkedInJun 11, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Data Science Career Track Prep
Joined the data science career track prep program in May 2020, and I'm currently in the full data science career track program. There are a lot of good things to say about the program. The Next.tech platform was really useful and helped me a lot through the program. The final portfolio project really helped me get a taste of what a Data Scientist does on a day to day basis. If you complete the technical skills survey you'll have a good idea if you have what it takes to enroll in the fu...Joined the data science career track prep program in May 2020, and I'm currently in the full data science career track program. There are a lot of good things to say about the program. The Next.tech platform was really useful and helped me a lot through the program. The final portfolio project really helped me get a taste of what a Data Scientist does on a day to day basis. If you complete the technical skills survey you'll have a good idea if you have what it takes to enroll in the full course. What Springboard really gets right is the structure of the program and the quality of their mentors and community. Best of all, the prep program is free if you end up going into the full data science career track program. - Venkat ChadalavadaGraduate • Data Science Career Track • OnlineVerified by LinkedInJun 11, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
"My Experience with Spring board India Data Science Career Track"
· If you accept starting with Springboard be ready for
-- No job assistance(You will have to find job yourself)
-- 6 months job guarantee is a liar.
-- There are lots of unemployment Spring board alumni.
-- 30 min mentor time once a week is not sufficient and satisfying. · it’s not worth at all, simply i can say waste of your hard-earned money and waste of time as well. So called mentors will be not available as per the sche...· If you accept starting with Springboard be ready for
-- No job assistance(You will have to find job yourself)
-- 6 months job guarantee is a liar.
-- There are lots of unemployment Spring board alumni.
-- 30 min mentor time once a week is not sufficient and satisfying. · it’s not worth at all, simply i can say waste of your hard-earned money and waste of time as well. So called mentors will be not available as per the schedules and they don’t spend much time with the students in explaining their doubts or explaining the concept. · Next coming to so called office hours, coding support sessions it’s just for the name sake they fix up the sessions without even asking/discussing our availability time, i can they do as per their need. · They force you to enrol for the course by paying 1.95 Lakhs and they also provide you easy EMI/Loan by third party finance company, after your enrolment they don’t even care/bother about you concerns related to course. · Most imp thing is, they state you like 100%per job guarantee after the successful completion of your course in 6 months but the hard fact is you can’t complete the course within the stipulated time as they mentioned since you don’t get proper support from mentors/support team after your enrolment in any manner and course is not easy at all as they state you while enrolling. · Whenever you try to reach support team/student adviser to discuss your concerns they don’t pick your call many times and if they receive the call they just say will come back to you in few min/EOD or will solve within EOD but you don’t get any solutions on time or they try to convince you as per their needs. · whenever you try to raise your concerns regarding the course, you will get only one statement/answer like you are not attending sessions properly, not following the mentor instructions or you are not spending your time. They will never ever agree their mistakes and listen you concerns as well. · Most pathetic part - When you say i am not satisfied with the course or if you ask for the cancellation and your money back, they simply say we don’t have refund policy at all and they will again try to convince you to the fullest with the flashy words/statements. It’s like mental harassment. · My suggestions please don’t waste your hard money and time as well. · if you are interested to learn data science and to make career transition, we have many institute in Bangalore who offer data science course, ML, AI course with very minimum fee ranges like 15–45k with excellent course structure so please don’t get fool y enrolling Springboard. · All the videos/materials provided by springboard are available for free in YouTube. · When the entire course material is free resources why they are charging 1.95 Lakhs I don’t understand · Mentor ship (mentor call) is something they make as a star of the program. But you will get to interact with your mentor once in a week only for half an hour. · I never got a chance to discuss in detail with my mentor as there was a time constraint (mentor is be not available after 30min) · Springboard is not helpful at all, all they are doing now, are blaming the students. · Whatever the things/words which i explained above, it’s my pathetic experience and wasted money as well. · Now for the curriculum. This was sadly most dissappointing. The course mainly revolves around data camp courses. And then these are supplemented by youtube lectures from Harvard or other institutions that would talk about the subject with the impression that you have intermediate knowledge of the subject matter, despite it being a beginners intro video to a concept. I have had much better success with the self study resources available on the internet, such as youtube tutorials etc. There was no feel of an actual boot camp teaching you, they basically link you to external sources that aren’t theirs. · The whole curriculum is just stuff taken off of the internet or LinkedIn learning. Very little original content. A lot of the content can be found by just doing a basic Google search. Overall this course did not live up to its hype. · I was told that these things do not matter and that you can easily land a job after you get both your projects done. I had done very detailed projects and posted them on github and did everything the career coaches suggested I do. Unfortunately, not a single data science position had reached out to me. · The program is a complete waste of money and time, one more thing, right after I completed my course, got the certification, In certification also they made blunder mistakes they added advanced ML track concepts like time series Analysis and Recommendation systems which is not an part of my NLP track.
· They dont know how to deal with students in a cordial way, I will not recommend this to anyone who is serious about learning Datascience, you can find their course on youtube for free · Frankly, I wish that I could get my money back. · I recommend staying away from wasting your money with them. · Don’t fall for false advertising. · I definitely made a wrong decision by joining Springboard.Springboard India Operations of Springboard
Program Management
Jun 18, 2020
Hi Venkat,Thank you for your recent feedback. We’re sorry to hear you feel that way about your Springboard experience. Our goal is to help our students realize their full potential, and if we have failed you in this regard, we apologize.We’ve had the time to carefully review your feedback and speak to your individual mentor about your course. We wanted to take this opportunity to go over a number of things highlighted in your recent review of Springboard and share our perspective in the hope of clearing up any misunderstandings.In your review, you highlighted three primary main areas of concern. Below you will find our responses to each of these.CurriculumOur curriculum comprises curated study material, hands-on exercises, and a combination of mini and capstone projects. This material is either created in-house or curated from external sources and organized to ensure clarity and coherence.Your feedback on the Springboard curriculum—which was received at the sub-unit level on 50 instances during your time in the program—was 5/5 without exception. To our knowledge, you did not raise any concerns about the curriculum at any point during the course. If we had received any feedback from you during the course, rest assured we would have done everything in our power to help get you back on track and ensure you had a positive experience.Mentorship programIn your review, you mentioned that the weekly 30-minute mentor calls were not enough, and that your mentor did not commit time beyond this 30 minutes per week. We spoke to your mentor and he assured us that he did try and commit additional time to you. We also tried to provide you with extra mentor calls when Springboard extended your original six-month program at no additional cost.Career servicesAccording to our records, you were issued the completion certificate for your Springboard course one week before you left this review. We also noticed that you applied for a refund request on the same day you received your completion certificate.On the refund request, you mentioned that you were not able to find enough job opportunities. Transitioning into a data science career is not easy. Trust us, we get it. This is why we do our best to help our graduates through extensive career services in our courses, which we offer for a period of up to six months after course completion. We also offer solid job training, such as mock interviews, to help our graduates better prepare for the job search ahead.We know changing careers is a daunting time for many of our graduates. That’s why we always strive to listen to our students’ feedback and improve where we can to help make this process as smooth and painless as possible. We want to thank you again for taking the time to write this review, and we hope you’ll get in touch with us directly to discuss the specifics of your course and how we could have better managed the transition. Thanks again, Venkat! - Connor ProctorGraduate • UX Career Track • OnlineVerified by LinkedInJun 10, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
UX Career Track
Springboard is amazing! The curriculum is well-curated - most of it is just resources and articles from the internet, however the way they walk you through each topic and assign projects applicable to each section really helps reinforce the content and ensure that you take away the necessary skills. On top of that, the one-on-one mentor sessions are a huge advantage and really help when working through more complex topics or projects. My mentor was an industry veteran working for an A li...Springboard is amazing! The curriculum is well-curated - most of it is just resources and articles from the internet, however the way they walk you through each topic and assign projects applicable to each section really helps reinforce the content and ensure that you take away the necessary skills. On top of that, the one-on-one mentor sessions are a huge advantage and really help when working through more complex topics or projects. My mentor was an industry veteran working for an A list tech company and his insight into my growth as a designer and design process was absolutely priceless. To top it all off, Springboard offers a "job-guarantee", although it does require a pretty rigorous job search regiment (which I was planning to do anyway). All in all, Springboard is an amazing value and should be very highly considered by anyone looking to make a career change.
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How much does Springboard cost?
Springboard costs around $11,900. On the lower end, some Springboard courses like Introduction to Design cost $349.
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