I attended cohort 24 in Austin, TX
First, a little bit about me. I entered Makersquare with roughly 2 years of Wordpress development experience. I was mainly self taught (aside from Comp Sci 101) through my job at a digital advertising company here in NYC. I was tired of working with Wordpress an...
MakerSquare is the premier software bootcamp in Austin. Possibly the best aspect of the program is the fact that they provide an unparalleled onramp into the local tech community. You can certainly learn to code on your own, but building relationships with key mentors and influencers from the local ...
MakerSquare for me accelerated my web development learning tremendously. I was trying to learn from books during late nights at cafe's after work and that was inefficient.
With instructors and mentors here, I am now able to build any web app I can imagine and have vastly increased my personal and...
It's been over 2 years since I made the choice to learn coding at MakerSquare. The community, friends and opportunities have made the past years some of the most fulfilling times of my life.
This review is for the MakerPrep course offered by MakerSquare that I took. As advertised, the course said that it will prepare you for the MakerSquare technical interview, the main basis for which MakerSquare accepts students. The instructor (unprofessional, unhelpful, more on him later) even said...
I graduated from MakerSquare back in 2014. Not to be overly dramatic, but it was a transformative experience full of incredible people. I have no regrets investing in my education with MakerSquare, since it brought me to the awesome career I have today. Of course to get there, require 110% dedicatio...
I took the Part Time Front End course at MakerSquare and it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. I have been a Designer for several years, but felt that improving my front-end development skills would really take me to the next level in my career.
Having taken the class, I m not only t...
It's been about 2 months since I graduated from Hack Reactor Austin. I am currently working as a full stack engineer at a great company. I pretty much got all that I wanted.
It hasn't been easy tho, just getting into the program requires dedication and hard work. The program itself is super inten...
I just completed MakerSquare's part-time front-end dev program.
A few things sold me on MakerSquare:
- They offered a part-time front-end dev program so I could continue working full-time and attend the evening classes.
- It felt personal. In my research, some dev schools felt more factory-...
On July 10th, 2014, I heard for the first time the word "Ruby" used as a name for a programming language by a cofounder of MakerSquare. On August 25th, 2014, I started my first day as a MakerSquare student. On November 17th, 2014, the Monday after the Friday I graduated, I became employee number 2 a...
I had chosen Hack Reactor (Makersquare at the time I was introduced to it) after hearing about it through at least two of my friends in the Software Industry. I had originally considered getting a degree from a university and was working towards that at a community college. But when I heard about th...
TL/DR: Do it!
I just finished MakerSquare at the end of January and the program was fantastic. It wasn t perfect as it continues evolve; however, these imperfections are vastly overshadowed by the unmistakable value it offers for those willing to work hard.
I do say offers for a reason, beca...
MakerSquare is a great organization. The most important thing that an organization like this can do is care about and respond to the needs of its students. MakerSquare is very feedback focused and will adapt whenever possible to improve the student experience. You will not be disappointed if you ...
MakerSquare is an accelerated learning course that provides the tools and the means to understand the ever changing world of web development. The staff and curriculum excel at adapting to the most current and on demand technologies. By completing MakerSquare you will have a firm understanding on pro...
Before MKS I was very unhappy with my front-end developer job. I wanted to learn more, and being funneled into a Wodrpess environment with no way or direction out was killing me. I applied and was rejected on my first attempt to get in (this was after 9 months or so of learning and having attended a...
Hack Reactor is not for the weak
It was not easy. It took months of self-study just to pass the entrance interview. Once accepted, there was more work to do before I was allowed in the door. All in all, I was coding near full time for four months before I started Hack Reactor. Once in, I was putt...
I went through the prep program in Austin, TX, then the immersive bootcamp, then worked as a fellow and I have nothing but amazing things to report from the experience. You learn more than you thought to be possible in only 13 weeks time, and the curriculum and overall experience is perfectly aligne...
I'd like to preface this review with this: If you are not ready to work and give a school 110%, MakerSquare might not be the place for you. Though it is only 3 months, It definitely takes a lot out of you. But what you get in return is much more than I could have ever imagined.
The staff was amaz...
Excellent curriculum, staff, and experience. Career services were amazingly helpful in landing me a job.
My Background: I am a electronics engineer that worked from day 1 after college in the oil industry, I had some code experience in college with assembly and c++, but nothing at a professional level, I decided to give a twist to my life and career to do something I love, code!, and didn't want to spe...
I can't say enough good things about MakerSquare. After college, I started a career in marketing, which never truly felt 'right' to me. I wasn't ever excited going to work and counted down the minutes when I got there. I started doing a few online tutorials to learn programming and immediately fell ...
I came through MakerSquare ATX June-September of 2015. I cannot say enough good things about this program or the people involved in making it happen. From the founders to the instructors and the awesome people supporting the job search side, the staff is truly invested in us not only as students, bu...
I was sick and tired of my high stress, thankless, engineering career and had a calling to learn to code. I applied and got accepted to the Austin bootcamp. I took a leap of faith by quitting my high paying job and moving to another state, but it was the best decision of my life.
The entire exper...
Excellent course work taught by great instructors. Lots of people I've talked to about MakerSquare are skeptical about what can be learned in 12 weeks, but that skepticism all goes away when they see the projects we've worked on (or after a coding interview) because grads are extremely capable. Th...
I wanted to go from working in IT to being a developer and, while I had basic skills, I needed a lot of help. I got my first developer job 13 days out of MakerSquare and I'm still there. Money well spent!
My experience with MakerSquare was enormously positive, and I'd recommend it to anyone with a genuine commitment to pursuing software engineering as a career.
I was reasonably well-established in my previous career in sales before attending MakerSquare, and I'd like to think I did my due-diligenc...
I graduated from MakerSquare as part of Cohort 3, at the end of January 2014. In April of that year, I started my first full-time web developer position at a local company. I was well-equipped to do my job, working with parts of the stack with which I was familiar [Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript...
The team over at MakerSquare is incredibly dedicated and they continue to substantially improve their program. I was with MakerSquare for two classes as an instructor and curriculum developer. I currently work as a senior engineer at Rapid7 (working on Metasploit), and I worked at many other softwar...
The environment at MakerSquare is one of enthusiastic learning. It was a joy to be around intelligent, knowledge-seeking individuals, who were united under the common cause of career change and coding. Pair programming was encouraged and students enthusiastically tutored each other throughout less...