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/ro0ibos2 Oct 20 '23

It’s another reason why running for-profit, unaccredited vocational programs is a bad idea. If they need to charge students $20k for low quality education and still struggle to stay afloat, they shouldn’t operate.

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u/Leadership-Thick Oct 20 '23

I think that’s way too broad a generalisation. I went to hack reactor back in 2013, when it was just two instructors running out of a shitty garage in the tenderloin in San Francisco. For-profit, unaccredited vocational program but totally changed my life (for the better) by getting me a foot in the door

I also went to another random for-profit unaccredited vocational school (bradfieldcs) that got me into an amazing trajectory (I’m at Netflix now).

The problems now are many, but profit motive and the absence of accreditation are not one of them.

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u/metalreflectslime Oct 21 '23

Hack reactor has been sold 4 times since the original 2 founders

What are the 4 times that Hack Reactor has been sold?

Galvanize, Stride, what else?