Coding DojoReviews of codingdojo.com

My brother enrolled in the program for $10,000. The caliber of students let into this program was very low. It seems like coding dojo is only interested in having people sign up so they can get paid. When you let in students who are not serious about completing their course work, very few employers are going to be willing to hire students from there. Their career services were not able to help my brother find a job. My brother would let me know many students didn't finish their homework, didn't pass their exams, and the teachers there were not proactive in helping students. I would stay away from this school. The top coding bootcamps will not require you to pay upfront, instead they will only charge you once you get a job. That's the sign of a good school, where they need to follow through and get you a job, if you put in the work. Please stay away from this school, look on career karma dot com for schools that have been vetted.

Go to a different Coding school! Coding Dojo interviews you after you apply to make sure you'll be a good fit for the program but this is just a ploy to make you think you’re special by getting accepted. They accept everyone! They don’t care. They just want your money! I couldn’t believe the caliber of people they enrolled, just to get a cohort started. They are false advertising that they can teach anyone to code, that you’ll make $76k+ when you graduate and that the department of labor will provide several companies to interview you and an apprenticeship program. All lies. No one is going to hire a coder with zero experience for anywhere near that amount. The program will NOT make you stand out when applying for jobs. You can forget about passing technical interviews or algorithm screenings! You will fail entry-level tests even for new computer science graduates because Coding Dojo lacks foundation and does NOT replace a computer science degree. The Boise, ID campus was brand new when I started the program. It was so disorganized, there was a lot of late and mis-communication, we had seven different teachers come in from out-of-state to replace a couple of teachers for odd reasons, no teaching assistant, and the interviews we were promised by multiple companies were never set up. Coding Dojo was supposed to establish relationships with several local companies for interviews and apprenticeships, not the Department of Labor, they totally dropped the ball and they still haven't tried to make it right. It's all a lie.

To be honest the remote Coding Dojo Bootcamp program is NOT worth $6,000 or more. A year later, I'm left with NO job in the field and horrible debt! My review is based on the remote experience. - The remote program value is NOT worth the money. If I had known that free YouTube videos, free edx.org courses, affordable Udemy, Treehouse, and free Udacity courses were a STRONGER learning foundation than an entire expensive Bootcamp program, I would have SAVED so much money! I wasted both my time and money on this program. I thought that having direct human interaction with an instructor would be a stronger learning experience. The remote program only includes two live lectures a week from instructors. There are daily online exercises that you complete by yourself. Initially, I was attracted to the remote program because I was working full-time and could do classes in the evening to hopefully transition to a new career change after graduation. The pacing of the overall program is unrealistic for the working class and the instructors often RUSH the lecture material. The result is that you do NOT get a solid learning foundation but a rushed final product. My fellow Bootcamp classmates struggled to turn in assignments because they had jobs and the lectures didn't cover all assignments. - The remote program quality is POOR. The program gives this false perception that you will be fully trained and ready for the software workforce. The program doesn't teach best practices and sometimes the instructors even forgot the basics of setting up an app. Although I respect and liked the instructors, they do not teach you the core features or basics of a programming framework or stack because they didn't have time. The curriculum rushes them. Something essential and simple like the Django Admin dashboard robust functionality. The MEAN portion also felt rushed and MongoDB lectures were very unclear. Instead, they teach you the manual, from-scratch approach for login authentication that is dangerous and not secure! I was told I would never get a job using the code that they taught me! They completely rushed and skipped over what frameworks have built-in and the power of the technology. It got to the point that I had to PAY outside experts to correct the code quality that the instructors taught me. I also had to pay outside experts to redo code samples that were taught in the program, just go get employers to look at me. So not only did I have to pay the Bootcamp monthly $1,000 installment payments but also additional costs for support that they lacked. - The remote program lacks support. AWS deployment was required to pass the final Django exam. No TA knew how to deploy on AWS at the time. With the instructors not available on weekends, I had no choice but to pay outside experts once again! - The program post-graduation experience. The remote program's learning quality will NOT make you stand out when applying for jobs. You can forget about passing technical interviews or algorithm screenings! You will fail entry-level tests even for new computer science graduates because Coding Dojo lacks foundation and does NOT replace a computer science degree. For the remote program, algorithm training sessions are optional and not enforced or structured in a way to help you pass the most basic level algorithms. On the contrary, I was told the onsite program requires students to do algorithms every day and the learning quality is better. I was told by staff that the basic on HacerRank was too hard to do. In conclusion, SAVE thousands of dollars please! Enjoy cheap Udemy courses, go to in-person meetup events, find a Code Mentor and watch free YouTube videos. You will learn so much more and have better code samples to show jobs. Seek certification from a program that uses best practices in programming stacks and does not rush the learning experience or quality.

Very poor program overall! Instructions, facility and staff are as bad as it gets. The materials online are ok but teaching 1 full stack in 3 weeks is ridiculous, I will not recommend this class to anyone! I am very disappointed and feel it was a waste of money and time. 4 months after graduation and having asked for my certificate several times I still do not have my certificate! No one seems to be responsible and responsive over there, it was so frustrating that I just gave up on them!

Expensive, no job opportunities, only 1 instructor worth his salt and he left! Total waste.

Wasted so much time and money. I truly regret putting so much of my resources only to be left down, left behind and put so much of a burden on my life that affects me to this day. There are so many students that start attend to class (over 30) and realistically only a very small percentage of them will ever come close to landing a job. There is no standard of admission to the school and coding dojo will sell you on the hype and make to feel good about your first attendance during the first two weeks of basics because designed to be so easy when compared to the rest of the boot camp. That is when the cut off time begins for 100% refund then you become vested to take the rest of the boot camp. The plan of learning three stacks is the most flawed concept in the teaching industry because there simply is not enough time to get into a competent level in a one month period of time. There are classroom politics that play as well specifically in Coding Dojo due to the nature of the accepting anyone and having as much as 30 students in one class. It's very typical to that of a community college however far worse. Examples would include drama among peers like developing boyfriend/girlfriend relationships, having certain social cliques similar to that in high school. The environment is very distracting. So much false motivation is given with the whole motto of strength through struggle which sets 90% of the students to realize failure in the long-term future. During the attendance, reality starts to creep in that you have already invested so much time and money to realize that what you are learning is not enough to land a job to receive a return on investment. It is very common to see alumni come back to work on some Udemy lesson, not dojo content. It becomes a habit of going through the motions of making an attempt of trying to learn content for literally hours a day. A lot of the alumni even get off the suggestion that you should sleep on the couches there overnight because during your job search you will have a place to stay since you will not be able to afford a place to live because of the lack of a job. Seeing alumni fail on finding a job while mopping on a Udemy course on a daily is extremely demotivating as you attend a boot camp because you know that will be you soon. Honestly, just look at the strength of the Coding Dojo alumni. A very high percentage do not hold a job as a software developer and if they are employed, it will be unrelated.

I found that the instructors were not truthful about the percentage of students who get developer positions afterwards. I think they are quoting statistics that are not true. I feel that this is false advertisement. Please talk to recent graduates before signing up for this. You can find them on LinkedIn with titles of "freelance developer", or "seeking developer position". Its quite funny that you can find a very similar learning platform online for free. It is called freecodecamp.org. I wish I would have known this before I payed 13,000 dollars. freecodecamp also has online and in person communities where you can get the same experience by coding with others. I get a really strange feeling when I am there because they have cameras everywhere. This makes me uncomfortable because I know the instructors are sometime watching live streams of students. I saw this happen while walking behind an instructor once. Also, three "project weeks" and one "break week" are weeks during your time there where people don't come in. So technically you pay for a month where there is NO instruction. Very disappointed in that.

No support for finding job