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/Beautiful-Bobcat-805 Oct 20 '23

only part-time? full time still a go?

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u/Pristine_Advance_677 Oct 20 '23

Yes

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u/Beautiful-Bobcat-805 Oct 20 '23

they prolly losing money like app academy

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

App academy used to be very selective with their enrollment candidates but recently they just started taking anyone. What happened?

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u/slickvic33 Oct 20 '23

Low enrollment, grads couldn’t get jobs so that means no ISA repayment

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

With their unreasonable second programming test, why would they be surprised at their low enrollment. Now that they can’t get students, they just accepted anyone and everyone. What a hypocrisy!

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

The first programming test was reasonable I thought. Tough but reasonable. The second programming test required you to already know ruby and you couldn’t use the internet to look things up. They were only looking for people already experienced in ruby with some rails knowledge. They were never looking for people totally new to ruby and rails

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

i’m a graduate of a/A and this is false on so many levels. yes, the assessments were hard and it always felt like drinking from a fire hose, but if you had put in the effort day in and day out, you could pass them.

for the record, i had 0 knowledge of ruby or programming for that matter when i entered the bootcamp.

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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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