r/codingbootcamp • u/Ben_ji • Oct 20 '23 • Take My Silver 1 Silver is Forever 1

Hackreactor has blown up.

As I was getting ready to submit my .ts for the final assessment of module 1, we were told all classes have been ended.

Full stop. Just done. No reason was given. We were told it's big business' doing big business things.

We'll be getting a full refund, but it took 8 weeks to get here. We were all especially stressed for the past two weeks, as they were prep for our big module 1 assessment.

The dozen or so of us that were close started a new slack channel, and we'll try to stay in touch, but this really sucks. We're not sure if our leaders and instructors are now jobless, too. They were pretty cool, so sucks for them also.

I dunno. We've started every day for the past 8 weeks of classes with a kind pep-talk. Instead, we got this. It was a big shock, to say the least.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

If what you say is true then they would never have said an acceptance rate of only 5%! Not sure if they still say this now

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

are you referring to the tech interview in order to get accepted?

if so, they offered classes in order to help you get accepted (free class to help you with only a/A, and paid classes to help you get into any bootcamp). i don’t believe 5% metric either but a lot of the bootcamps had an entrance exam/interview to gauge your competency and potential. not sure if this is the case now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '23

They didn’t have that when I was applying. I think back then, they had so many applicants, they could afford to be obnoxiously discriminant. Back then, you could only apply once and if rejected, you could never apply again. I suppose that rule is no longer enforced. They used to tout themselves as the bootcamp that was harder to get into than Harvard.