REVIEW FOR IBG TRAINING
Paid $399 for fast track course and am currently a student on my 31st day.
I want to start by saying that I was very excited to sign up and support IBG Software because I believe deeply in their work to try and help VETS, POC, and Felons integrating back into society develop job skills. With that being said, I am very disappointed with my experience so far.
The course format is so dysfunctional that I've had to question at times whether or not this program is a flat out SCAM. I'm still not sure.This course is basically just following videos from youtube (not IBG youtube videos either) and udemy (which you pay for yourself) to create projects that can be showcased as a portfolio. From what I can see, now completing a full 31 day round, IBG does NO teaching of material what so ever. The entire course is self taught. They also do not assist students with anything code related. Do not expect to learn ANYTHING directly from IBG. The lectures always start late and don't provide the type of value I would expect in a course that is claiming to teach people how to be effective full stack jr. engineers. The lectures are run by the owner (may be the only person who works there FT) and is 20-30 mins of him reviewing basic term definitions and/or methodologies. Lectures never run for the full hour as described on course description. Not sure if this is because the program is understaffed but we paid for training/guidance and at this point it really feels like we are on our own. During the lectures he allows us to ask questions but because we never take a deeper look at the material they end up being very general questions. Not once during the entire full cycle of the class did we ever go into actual code during the lectures and as mentioned earlier no assistance on code outside lectures either. Literally on your own.
I'm sticking to the course because I invested money, A LOT of time (over 150 hours in the last 31 days), and genuinely want to be a software engineer. I will follow through and get this course done so that I can get to the guaranteed job placement portion but unfortunately at the end of this all, I can't say that I've actually learned anything from IBG other than what topics to look for on google, youtube, and udemy.
Sent everything I said above to a member of staff about a week ago and am still yet to receive a response to my concerns.
I truly hope the job placement portion is a smoother process than this course has been. Even if I do get a job I'd still only give them at most 2.5, maybe 3 stars at best because of their lack of professionalism, responsiveness, and transparency of what this course actually is. read more