SpringboardReviews of springboard.com

I have learned so much during my Springboard experience. The application process was quick and easy and the more I learned about the program, the more confident I felt about enrolling. The curriculum is thorough with clear guidelines and expectations outlined for students. There's endless streams of support- career coaches, personal mentors (one-on-one, once per week), unlimited mentors, students on the Slack community or in virtual study groups, and student advisors. This program is also incredibly flexible with pricing- the loan option is outstanding and low risk- as well as timing (you can pause the curriculum at any time (limited on number of pauses) or can even do an extension if needed. This program is self-paced and offers endless opportunity to receive feedback on projects, develop a deeper understanding of the curriculum, and learn how to network effectively and land a job in your field. This has been an incredible opportunity and I really can't recommend them enough.

I had a great experience in UX/UI Design bootcamp at Springboard! I highly recommend this bootcamp for anyone looking to shift careers. I signed up for the Design Career track, as this includes career calls after the course to help you find a full time position. When I was deciding on a UX/UI bootcamp, I was hesitant to sign up for a longer/more expensive bootcamp, but am very glad I went with Springboard. Here are some of the key reasons why: The weekly mentor (an industry professionals) calls are super helpful and help you get immersed into the UX/UI field. My mentor helped me understand UX/UI concepts, and helped me refine the deliverables to build my case studies up! You come out of the course with a full portfolio (essential for getting a job!) with four case studies including an Industry Design Project, which is essentially an internship with a company. This real-world experience is really helpful coming out of the course! The curriculum does a good job teaching you UX/UI concepts and slowly building those up. Career guidance is prompted throughout the course, which was extremely helpful. Throughout the course, you are prompted early on to start building career skills such as networking. You also have calls with a career coach while you are simultaneously going through the technical material. This early prompting to start thinking about how you are going to get a job and slowly building skills necessary for this were extremely helpful for me. You come out of the course with an updated UX/UI resume as well as a updated and revised (by career coach) Linkedin. You are assigned a student advisor which helps you keep moving along. Having someone to keep me on track was essential for me. She gave me weekly deadlines that I needed to meet in order to complete by the date I gave her. Having this was a game changer for me. Finally, you are connected with a Springboard slack community, so you are able to meet other students in the course. This is really helpful as the course is remote, and helps you stay connected to others and meet new people who are in a career shift as you. I met a lot of wonderful friends along the way, while also building up my professional network. If you are wanting to shift careers, Springboard is a great choice! I feel very prepared for the working world and am glad that I still am able to meet with a Career coach on a bi-weekly basis, who will help me land a full-time position.

Sounds like an absolute scam of a company. Their materials are just sourced from other free or cheap programs online, and they charge about $10,000! You can literally go to a top business school in Europe to get a masters for less than this. Why would you pay some online "bootcamp" all that money for digital certificate that employers laugh at!?

Post course completion review: Search "switchup" and "course report" with my name, review dated 1-Oct-2020. ~5 star rating for the course overall. Won't discuss this here. Post Job Guarantee review: Course: Data Analytics Career Track Cohort: Aug 2020 Completion: Sep-2021 Initial Job Guarantee end date: Apr-2021 Final Job Guarantee end date: Oct-2021 Refund Date: Oct-2021 (within 2 weeks of end date) I signed up based on the 6months job guarantee USP. This was unilaterally extended due to high unemployment rate. I religiously followed the job guarantee guideline and career coach advise throughout the job guarantee period. 6 weeks prior to end date, I had 1st touch base with career service manager (CSM)- data analytics vertical. From there my career coach calls were revised to weekly calls. 2 weeks prior to end date, 2nd touch base with CSM. Both calls, CSM offered to further extend the job search by 6months optionally. I declined any further extension. After end date, CSM got in touch and asked for decision: extension or refund? For refund, there is a thorough review if the requirements have been met or not. Any gaps or findings need to be addressed within 30days timeframe for the refund. Upon satisfactory review, the refund is "approved" and "processed". All tuition paid less adjustments (referral promotions etc.), is credited via original method of payment.

Springboard's bootcamp services are the career counseling support you wish you had in undergrad and never got! There are numerous touch points: --Student Support person --Dedicated Mentor who guides you through the program --Office hours --Great Slack network --Mentor on Demand - multiple people --Career Counseling --Several mock interviews both technical and behavioral You get a lot of exposure, guidance, and help for troubleshooting. I took the online self-paced full time version. I happened to get a job within the first 8 weeks of the program and took a 4 month pause to onboard to that role and then complete the rest of the bootcamp for the final two months. Everyone was very supportive, patient, and really helped with managing stress, burnout, and motivation. It's really nice to be learning the material in a safe, supportive environment and know that everyone is interested and vested in your success. The curriculum is comprehensive and the resources shared are amazing. Before enrolling in Springboard's program, I tried to create my own bootcamp but it turns out that it is very difficult to find appropriate data when you yourself are outside of a business context (meaning, a lot of data is proprietary). I learned a little bit on my own but the structure and progression of the program is really worth the price tag. It really is an investment and opens your world up to a lot of great networking opportunities and practice. For Tooling, the curriculum follows Excel, SQL, Tableau, and Python. You complete case studies and projects using these tools. Remember that it's the business problem that's driving the tool usage and not the other way around. Be agnostic to tools and solutions, but it's really about the business problem you're solving for. There is also the core skills associated with data analytics and that's the financial perspective, the economic perspective, and the statistical perspective, all underpinned by strategic frameworks. Springboard is like a compressed MBA in this way and jumpstarts your business understanding if you don't already have it. Remember that the bootcamp is creating a strong foundation for you on which to build your data skills. You cannot become a subject matter expert in a matter of months, it does take years, so understanding that is really key as you make a career change.

I just finished the UX/UI Career Track by Springboard and I am finally starting the most exciting part: job hunt! So far, I have felt great support from Springboard. I had my personal mentor, student advisor and career coach throughout the process. We had a Slack channel for the students in our cohort and it was very good to have an easy access to a UX community that is ready to help whenever needed! Apart from having finished a very dense, flexible and dynamic curriculum which presents lots of hands on UX practices; I prepared 4 UX projects, created my portfolio, wrote my first UX resume and adjusted my Linkedin profile! Springboard program had prepared me both academically and professionally! I am looking forward to the next phase!

Don't waste your money with Springboard. Nobody knows about Springboard. If you want a certificate in Data Science , join the other well known boot camps. It's too much money with Springboard. They do not have expertise, they outsource everything

This whole debacle began in 2020, when I was trying to find a job in the IT field and a way to improve my skills to become a data scientist. I received an e-mail advertisement from Springboard, which they guaranteed that if I took their course in data science that I could find a job after 6 months of completing their online course. I took them up on their offer, which costs $12,000, most of which comes in the form of a Income Share Agreement (ISA), which includes a loan agreement of $11,300. In May, 2020, I sent them a deposit of $700, which I considered an investment. I started their course on May 26, 2020, thinking that the course would be original material they had curated themselves. I was disappointed when most of the material they had came from a website called Datacamp, which offers the same material they had for 1/30 of the price. I persevered and finished their course in March, 2021. My job search began on March 9, 2021. Because of the pandemic, they extended their "guarantee" to one year, meaning that I would have to do an extensive job search for one year before I would eligible for a refund, which is not what they advertised on their website. They assigned me a career coach, who lives in Canada, to aid me in my job search. The help I received from her was very little and when I began to question her credentials or even her techniques, she would get very upset. When they extended their "guarantee",, they did not give me the option to opt-out or even listen to my input on the matter. After 4 months of searching for a job with no success (not even an interview), I suffered a near mental breakdown because of the unsuccessful search. During my search, I was to report to them every week that I had applied to 4 jobs and made contact with 7 people on LinkedIn, which I did faithfully.. Everything came to a head on August 7, 2021, when they changed their policy again, without my consent or my input, when I was required to report 2 informational interviews a month, something that was not enforced in the original agreement for the previous 4 months, which they said was because they didn't add it to their website then, which is an outright lie. When I complained to Ms Saccuzzo about this matter, I was treated with extreme disrespect and rudeness. In addition, the career coach abandoned me for no reason, which was very unprofessional. I filed a complaint with my state's Attorney General's office on August 16, 2021, which is still being reviewed because Springboard has refused to answer to requests for information from the State of Arkansas. Six months has passed since I completed my course, and I still do not have a job in data science, like they have advertised on their website. I am demanding a full refund of my money and dissolution of any and all contracts with Springboard. This company has a "F" rating with the BBB and they need to be put out of business.