Out of curiosity, what was your budget for course?
Are the people who were hired after the Boot Camp, live near your area (country or city) or they were from other countries?
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Courses can be easily downloaded for free (illegally). but some courses are too much of theory without proper explanation. The methods they show are not applicable in the real world.
ok, the answer to your first question is, the boot camp cost me 250,000 Russian rubles which is $3000. from my understanding it's cheaper than a similar BootCamp in the united states. so you pay 3k for a 3 month BootCamp ( you can fail each phase just once).
as for the fellow students, they were 98% Russian or native Russian speakers. there were Russians who actually live in the united states but flew in specifically for the BootCamp. my class was 11 students including my self all Russians, all from Moscow and all got hired except me and another guy.
I will be very honest with regard to my experience with this whole process. Russian as I mentioned is a language I understand but not as a native, its my third language so if I could go back and redo this Bootcamp I would have prepared first using travesty udemy courses and then show up. the reason as to why I didn't get hired yet is due to the following:
1- there are some spaces in my understanding of javascript and react to a lesser extent. this leads me to panic when I don't know how to answer.
2- my biggest issue is I can't just sit and type code, I need to look at already written code, however, to actually sit and write it without looking is my Achilles heel and I'm working on fixing this issue. I think it's due to the inability to think like a programmer. I'm now doing travesty react course and building along and I've acquired a lot of knowledge with regards to react.
3- I did have several phone interviews, but unlike my colleagues, I never get called up for tech interviews instead I get a test task 99% of the time that is either massive or simply too hard for someone who just finished a boot camp.
it was drilled in our heads during this boot camp that we should accept a minimum of 120k rubles per month which is around 2k USD, and that's a lot of money and with that comes high expectations so my strategy is a bit off from what is being drilled in our heads I'm applying to vacancies that want new developers ( junior) even if they pay 80k I am willing to go down that road and work my way up. ( nearly everyone who graduated gets 110k minimum the highest is 160k ). the idea being, less pressure and more chance to be mentored. i think the biggest mistake I ever did was staying too long in Codecademy ( this being handheld was bad) it's not a bad resource as an introduction but I wish I went down the udemy way first then BootCamp.
the bottom line is there are many aha moments for me now, that I'm studying react again in English, a language I'm comfortable in compared to Russian. non the less I'm grateful and proud of my accomplishment of going through and graduating from this bootcamp.
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Out of curiosity, what was your budget for course?
Are the people who were hired after the Boot Camp, live near your area (country or city) or they were from other countries?
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ok, the answer to your first question is, the boot camp cost me 250,000 Russian rubles which is $3000. from my understanding it's cheaper than a similar BootCamp in the united states. so you pay 3k for a 3 month BootCamp ( you can fail each phase just once).
as for the fellow students, they were 98% Russian or native Russian speakers. there were Russians who actually live in the united states but flew in specifically for the BootCamp. my class was 11 students including my self all Russians, all from Moscow and all got hired except me and another guy.
I will be very honest with regard to my experience with this whole process. Russian as I mentioned is a language I understand but not as a native, its my third language so if I could go back and redo this Bootcamp I would have prepared first using travesty udemy courses and then show up. the reason as to why I didn't get hired yet is due to the following:
1- there are some spaces in my understanding of javascript and react to a lesser extent. this leads me to panic when I don't know how to answer.
2- my biggest issue is I can't just sit and type code, I need to look at already written code, however, to actually sit and write it without looking is my Achilles heel and I'm working on fixing this issue. I think it's due to the inability to think like a programmer. I'm now doing travesty react course and building along and I've acquired a lot of knowledge with regards to react.
3- I did have several phone interviews, but unlike my colleagues, I never get called up for tech interviews instead I get a test task 99% of the time that is either massive or simply too hard for someone who just finished a boot camp.
it was drilled in our heads during this boot camp that we should accept a minimum of 120k rubles per month which is around 2k USD, and that's a lot of money and with that comes high expectations so my strategy is a bit off from what is being drilled in our heads I'm applying to vacancies that want new developers ( junior) even if they pay 80k I am willing to go down that road and work my way up. ( nearly everyone who graduated gets 110k minimum the highest is 160k ). the idea being, less pressure and more chance to be mentored. i think the biggest mistake I ever did was staying too long in Codecademy ( this being handheld was bad) it's not a bad resource as an introduction but I wish I went down the udemy way first then BootCamp.
the bottom line is there are many aha moments for me now, that I'm studying react again in English, a language I'm comfortable in compared to Russian. non the less I'm grateful and proud of my accomplishment of going through and graduating from this bootcamp.