SpringboardReviews of springboard.com

I've been mentoring for practically a year and haven't seen any meaningful change to improve the conditions for students or mentors. I've never been directly solicited for feedback from Springboard, and I'm sure anyone who does gets it put straight into the shredder. Now deciding to cut pay for mentors because they'll let anyone into the program to learn and some students don't complete the program faster than others.

Excellent Experience, Intensive course! Complete course: It covers the fundamentals of Data wrangling (cleaning), exploratory analysis, statistical inferences, machine learning models, model performance evaluation and more. Of course, there is always a chance to go deeper into some of these topics. Your mentor is always there to answer your questions and help you with any doubt. Support and community: It is mandatory to have one call with your mentor per week. Still, it is possible to schedule more calls in case you need it. Moreover, there are office hours, and blogs where you can get in communication with your classmates and discuss ideas, ask questions, and have fun! Student support team is also always present for you when you need to take a break or have any questions about the course. Practical approach: During the course you have to watch different videos, read books, and articles but also, you need to practice your skills in several excercises and capstone projects that simulate real life situations. Intensive course: Be sure to have the time to fulfill all the course requirements.

Springboard is by so far the best online bootcamp I have ever seen with real life projects that helped me explore more and expand my knowledge. The way the curriculum is designed is well outlined with adequate learning materials. The one to one mentor that we are assigned and the unlimited mentor calls that are accessible 24/7 made my learning process so much interesting and easy. Last but not least the students advisors and Career Coaches are as amazing as the rest of SpringBoard teams.  The mentors are highly qualified and were able to guide me in the right direction. I had no experience with data analytics but SpringBoard is an eye opener for me. The Slack community channel is another engaging platform for experience sharing and meeting students. I have just finished my course with fully equipped knowledge and more confidence than ever to apply for jobs. I highly recommend SpringBoard for anyone that wants to make a career change.

I had a great experience in the Data Analytics course with Springboard. The curriculum is well planned and you learn a wide variety of skills. I also enjoyed meeting with a mentor each week to be able to ask questions when I was stuck or uncertain. For my Capstone project, I was able to use both Python and Tableau for the analysis which was exciting as I had been completely unfamiliar with both of these tools before starting this course. Now that I have finished, I feel I have developed a new skillset that can take me to the next level with my current employer.

I had a fantastic experience with Springboard. I found the curriculum easy to follow, and it was a nice mix of didactic information, expert editorials and videos from a broad variety of sources. I started with no experience using design software and am now very confident in my skills (Figma's my favorite tool). The capstone projects, modified Google Ventures Design Sprint and Industry Placement Project provide you with an excellent foundation for writing the case studies that you will use in your first portfolio. I found the 1:1 weekly mentorship invaluable. You have an expert there to back you up, answer questions, and keep you on track. As a bonus, every single time I needed to reach out to the staff for one reason or another, the team was so helpful and quick to respond. If you want to work at your own pace and feel ready to hit the job market at the end of your bootcamp, I'd absolutely recommend Sprinboard's UI/UX Bootcamp.

Doing a Springboard's UI/UX design program happens to be genuinely life-changing. The skills I've learned, especially design and career skills, are priceless. Now that I am working as a UX Intern in a real firm, I feel very well prepared for the tasks associated with my job to deliver professional work. I was fascinated by how well designed Springboard's curriculum. I learned the UI and UX design concepts within a nine-month course, covering user research, design exemplars, and applications. I can say that having done this course was cost and time-effective for me. I'm glad I decided on Springboard over a master's program. In addition to this, I enjoyed that Springboard is self-paced, and the staff is very accomodating. They allowed breaks in case you have family emergencies or health issues.

The program was great. You learn everything you need to know to do most jobs within the UX field (UI too, if you want that track). There's plenty of support when it comes to coursework, career services, and ways to build community/your own network. The only problem is that lots of real-world work is done within teams, and there is space in the curriculum to make one of the projects a group project (2-3 people). Doing all of the work yourself teaches you how to do it and how much time it may take to do these parts. To finish the course on time is a bit difficult because of how in-depth it is. It really is a bootcamp, and it takes consistency and continuous learning, even outside the coursework. Definitely worth the investment.

There's so much to be said about how Springboard does an amazing job with the Data Science Career Track! 1)The curriculum is so thoughtfully and expertly designed. It manages to cover a wide range of topics, but in a manner that flows naturally both in terms of progressive difficulty and logical continuity. This to me, is so important for sustaining motivation to complete the program. 2)It is highly hands-on and project oriented. This is a good thing, always a good thing, and Springboard recognizes that. Almost every unit has at least one mini-project to explore the content covered in that unit within an implementation context. You also need to complete two Capstone projects of your choice in any areas of your interest as part of the curriculum, and these projects are great for your Github or your resume. Clearly, Springboard appreciates that project-oriented learning is essential to drive certain concepts home and again, sustain motivation by seeing the fruits of your labor. 3)The quality of the resources. Data Science experts on the Springboard Team have put in efforts to create high quality resources - both technical and career-oriented. These are usually well-drafted informational documents or videos. They also handpick a good selection of public articles/videos (and even one wonderful book) to supplement your learning, and their partnership with DataCamp (shoutout!) gives you access to a rich library of also high quality content. 4)Flexibility Look, Springboard gets that life happens, and they've got your back. There is an option to take a 2-3 week pause from the course ANYTIME to perhaps catch up on other responsibilities or to maybe just *recharge*. Also, they offer a free 2 month extension to finish the program if you don't finish within the original 6 months, which can also turn out to be quite a blessing. I'm a full-time CS student at UCLA, so when I ran into a difficult quarter, I could still manage because of their flexible options. 5)Community You're assigned a Student Advisor and Mentor as part of the program, and in my experience, they were both wonderful. The Student Advisor regularly checks in on you if you need help making goals, being productive, planning a schedule, tackling burnout, and more! They really help keep you afloat during your journey. You meet with your mentor on a weekly basis so they can guide you with projects and difficult material, or tell you more about the industry and their type of work, which is always interesting to hear! My mentor was super helpful with his feedback on my projects and helped me shape them into something I was proud of. I should also mention that support on their Slack is pretty good too for Q/A related things, their customer support team is extremely friendly and helpful, and their cohort of career coaches is also excellent, so be sure to make regular appointments with them because they give extremely valuable and insightful advice about the industry and building the professional profile you want for yourself. All-in-all, a great program designed by a talented team of industry professionals. The amount of knowledge and learning you get out of the program is priceless (and you get lifetime access to the curriculum!). If you've got the time and you want to, as they call it, "future-proof" your career, I highly recommend their program :)