Flatiron School

My experience with flatiron has been very positive. Starting from their free bootcamp prep course online to their campus to their instructors and job placement team, flatiron certainly sets the bar high for a quality education. There’s a lot of hard work and you get what you put in.
5 7 years ago (24-03-2018)

Good: content and scope of learning, coaching support and labs complexity . Bad: the really need to improve the student experience and manage the way they present the classes, the content is good but very bad presented, they have a great product but need more focus in the psychopedagogy.
3 7 years ago (10-05-2018)

I graduated from Flatiron School's in-person web development immersive program a few months ago. I can honestly say it changed my life. Before the program, I was struggling to make ends meet with a liberal arts degree. Two months after graduating, I found a job that pays twice my old salary and is infinitely more rewarding and fun. I love coding and can't think of anything I'd rather do. I know when I'm 80 years old, I'll look back on my decision to go to Flatiron as one of the best I've ever made. The negative reviews I've seen accuse the school of only caring about money and not helping students find jobs, but in my experience, the instructors and staff care tremendously about providing a good experience and everyone in my program who was actively looking for work is employed. I can't recommend the school more enthusiastically or sincerely.
5 8 years ago (07-06-2017)

This is a great school to learn coding. The people are helpful and actively try to create a friendly community of developers. The test driven development focus is both challenging and valuable as it really creates a deep understanding of the curriculum. There are some technical issues as they have grown and evolved but this is still over all one of my favorite resources when it comes to developer training.
3 9 years ago (24-08-2016)

Liars, Rude, Condescending. They make you take an online course before class. Why pay 15k when I can do that by myself for free? They promise to teach anyone to be able to code but yet make you take a test to make sure you already know how to code??? Anytime a negative review shows up magicaly several new 5 star reviews show up to cover up the bad ones with terms like, the dream is real, life changing experience, etc,. The job placement is a joke at best. No support at all. They just tell you to take any job, even as an unpaid intern helping out with the coffee machine. Then they count that as a job placement success! Its all just lip service to get your money and then you are just an annoyance to them. They like to engage in small talk but if you need real help they make you feel stupid or like a pest. They spend more time on checking reviews, press releases and marketing than helping graduates. Another problem is they teach ruby, which is useless because the industry is moving away from ruby on rails, After graduation and zero job interest, I taught myself java online and got a paid internship with a bank. Now after one year there my salary went from 20k to 65k.That is the real reality. Not their hype. You can teach yourself online for a few hundred with more relevant technology. And after a year of experience then are you finally considered a junior developer. Don't believe their fairy tales. And read between the lines of the reviews, the fake ones are really easy to spot with their zero to hero pie in the sky fantasies. All the phony reviews say its a lot of hard work but it will change your life, well, the only thing that it changed for me was my checking account balance.
1 8 years ago (12-12-2016)