Review of my code bootcamp: Revature - 2 years later
Since I am no longer under any contract - I believe I am free to review my code bootcamp -revature
What is Revature? An IT company that trains people in modern technologies so that they can get you a job and jumpstart your IT career
· They "train" people
· They network with companies for you to get a job
preface: 2 Years ago I didn't have a job and I didn't know many modern technologies for useful software engineering
· I knew a bit of Java and C++ from University classes and some robot building club
· I didn't really have a solid understanding of what companies were using to build applications
· I also didn't know if I wanted to be a software engineer
Overall for someone in my situation without a computer science degree nor much experience in modern technologies, Revature wasn't that bad to me.
People give Revature a lot of Flack for being something someone should stay far away from
· I believe that many of the people just look at the large sum of money that you will Owe Revature if you break the contract and run for the hills. During my time it was $20k but could be higher depending on when you watch this video
· The amount of people that actually give the reviews that have been through it all is a lot smaller
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Revature hypes up their training too much
· They target newly graduated people
· They then train you and once you have finished their 10-16 week training they tell companies these people are the hottest IT workers in the industry
· In reality you aren't the hottest, you are often times the last picks that were overtrained
· Most of the time the people who go through revature are the people who use it as a last ditch effort - like me
· This is because they couldn't find a job through other means
The training was rushed
· I have detailed in a couple videos what I was trained on:
· Java
· HTML
· SQL
· CSS
· Javascript
· Spring
· Express
· React + Redux
· All these technologies are too much for the amount of time to fully master them
· When you join Revature you are put in a "batch" this is basically a normal classroom of people from like 15-30 people that you spend the whole day with and are taught by a single teacher for the whole 10+ weeks
· I believe my batch was special because we were the first batch from Revature ever that was targeted to work for Cognizant ( I don't work for Cognizant... or do I?)
· Cognizant is another contract company that is apart of WITCH that contracts you out to other companies
· Because we were Cognizant's first batch, Cognizant wasn't sure what kind of technologies were needed from us
· This indecisiveness led our training to be a mismatch of way too many technologies
· While this isn't technically totally Revature's fault, Revature and Cognizant could have done a better job of communicating what was expected for our batch to learn
· In my opinion, you don't need to learn multiple server-side technologies starting out like I did with Spring and Express - just pick one and master it ( as long as it is somewhat modern)
· You can always branch out later

My training also had little impact for what we did on the job
· On the job we didn't use any of those server techonologies and instead opted for serverless technologies with AWS Lambda

Revature targets to send you to WITCH companies (Wipro Infosys TCS Cognizant HCL),
· These are the worse companies in the industry for many reasons
· I have heard stories of being sent to nice companies like Netflix and Capital One, but I believe that was few and far between.
· I got lucky and got sent to a solid company that bought out my contract after a year, though they did say I was expected to spend the rest of the 2 year contract at my company which I did
· I know many people that were not as lucky - my coworker was sent to my same company but after a year or so my company said they didn't have the funding for him anymore
· They let him go back to Revature in which he waited in staging for a month before he had to move from our Virginia house back to Florida for his new job
Low Pay
· The minimum they could pay you was $45k
· For a software engineer or IT consultant this is unacceptable in many cost of living areas like California or New York
· Many theorize that Revature is making way more off of you than what your contract is worth - $20k during my time
· I don't believe their training was woth $20k
· I could have taken many UDEMY courses for less than $1k - I just didn't know which ones to take at the time
· what was worth it for me was a guaranteed job
Would I do it again? Probably not. Too risky. I got lucky

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