App Academy

After completing App Academy, I received my first job offer one week after sending out my first resume. By the time graduation day rolled around 3 weeks later, I had 6 offers in hand. After I was hired, my team went on to hire two more App Academy graduates and several of my coworkers have reached out to me for advice on App Academy and have referred their friends and family to the program. The program is not easy and there is always more to learn, there was definitely a lot of caffeine and many long nights, but the payoff for me has been huge.
The course teaches you the fundamentals of coding, how to tackle large projects, how to write clean code, and how to interview– a very different skill than how to work as a engineer. I’ve since spent a lot of time on hiring committees and I’m amazed at the average level of preparedness of applicants compared to the prep I received going through App Academy. At the end of the day, the job search and contract negotiation advice I received at App Academy is one of the most valuable things I took from the program.
App Academy opened amazing doors for me that would be closed to me otherwise and I have zero regrets about going through the program

The 12 weeks that I spent at App Academy were not only pivotal in my career as a developer but also some of the best weeks of my life.
The curriculum is as good as it gets. It moves at a pace which strikes the perfect balance of absorbable and challenging. After 7 weeks, I couldn’t believe how much I’ve learned in such a short amount of time. The instructors are very smart and friendly. I always felt very safe and welcomed whenever I needed help with something.
Even though I graduated with a CS degree, App Academy taught me things that I couldn’t learn in school. Best practices, hands-​on practice with the latest technologies being used in the industry (yes, they teach react. js!), effective communication and pair programming.
Also, although it was challenging at times but, it never stopped being fun. Pair programming with a new person every day and allowed me to meet up really cool people and tackle some really interesting problems together.

App Academy was the cornerstone in a pretty big life pivot for me. The program helped facilitate my switch into software engineering, introduced me to a bunch of great people, and really kickstarted my new life in San Francisco. It was a lot of work, but definitely worth while. I landed a job as a software engineer about a month after the program ended, and feel prepared to come and start contributing while continuing my own development.