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Sabio

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Founded in 2010, Sabio is a tech training provider offering 13- and 17-week full-time coding bootcamps and a 21-week part-time bootcamp in Los Angeles, Orange County, and online. Sabio specializes in Mobile, Front End, Back End, Source Control, Database, and Development platforms across the full stack, and students can specialize in Node.js or .Net to help jumpstart their careers. By incorporating project-based learning into its curriculum, it offers students a compre...
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  • Anonymous
    Software Engineer • Graduate • Full Stack Weekday Training (12 weeks) • Los Angeles
    Dec 19, 2015
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    .Net Done The Right Way.

    Becoming a Fullstack .Net developer is not an easy task, but this course will supply you with tools, knowledge, and some of the most supportive people you need to succeed. 

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  • Anonymous
    Applicant • Full Stack Weekday Training (12 weeks) • Los Angeles
    Mar 27, 2016
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    Fraudulent bogus camp

    Don't waste your time here.  There's no teaching going on.  'Go Google it' is not teaching.  One would be employer told me 'don't waste your time with a boot camp.  There are better resources online for a lot less'. 

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    Liliana Aide Monge of Sabio

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Mar 29, 2016

    While we encourage our fellows to research solutions on sites like Google.com and Stackoverflow.com that is not the primary source of education and instruction. ( BTW did you know that Stackoverflow was built with .Net which is our stack of choice and why we end up with such high placement rates like 93%? Well now you do!)

    Our seasoned instructors have at least 13-20 years of software development expertise and our veteran instructors spend their entire day with a small group of developers. Most of that time is one-on-one instruction. To say we expect you to do your learning from Google is a gross misrepresentation and inaccurate. Your learn from our instructors and resources we put together for our Fellows. Not from videos  nor from recent grads (AKA "EIRs") like almost all of our "competitors". 

    It would be great if the person that wrote this post could reach out to us personally so we can determine how we can help but we are at a loss with this review. Our graduating cohort from December 2015 is fully employed and most of them attended our last graduation party so they can't be all that upset at us. 

    In addition, the cohort that graduated 3 weeks ago is almost at 30% with offers and we are waiting on two more already. The two cohorts that just graduated are up to and just shy of 30% with offers. Since they were still in the training room with us today we asked them all to give us feedback on your feedback. They all were shocked and provided a variety of alternative review sources.

    Therefore, we are left thinking you might be the person we asked to leave our pre-work group after which you, not so subtly, suggested that you would give us a bad a review on this site. This also explains why you know very little about what actually happens in our training room.  It is unfortunate you take this so personally and we ask you to understand that since we provide services to our Fellows for FIVE years, something no other bootcamp does, and because we have to maintain a high level of excellence, not only in skill but also character, we cannot just let  anyone join our quality organization. 

    We have to be selective, because Sabio Fellows are Winners.  We highly doubt this review was written by a Sabio Fellow.  
  • Dave
    Dave
    Applicant • Full Stack Weekday Training (12 weeks) • Los Angeles
    Mar 08, 2017
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    Fraudulent job placement practices

    I did not like Sabio's deceptive practices regarding job interviews and resumes. They have their students work on a web development project from a random company that wants a website done. (They claim that they "no longer" receive payment from the company for this.) Then, when the students graduate, they are instructed to lie on their resumes and to list that they worked full-time as a "junior developer" for the outside company, and to never mention Sabio on their resume or in interviews "...

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    Liliana Monge of Sabio

    CEO & Co-Founder

    Mar 08, 2017

    Dave, 

    You are clearly upset and that is unfortunate. Your feedback, lack of mention of our actual training and inaccurate reporting of what goes on inside of our training leads us to concluded that you are the student we dismissed from our prework. We understand you are very upset and are sorry that we could not make it work with you. From the start we were very clear with you that we do not accept everyone into the program.

    We support your suggestion and invite people to do a simple search on Google or LinkedIn to disprove many of the statements that you have made. The information is out there, you just have to take a minute and look it up. For example here is one of our very real clients and projects: https://midineromifuturo.com.

    You will find our name, Sabio, all over the source code which makes it impossible for anyone to deny an association with us.

    There really isn't much more to say other than to invite anyone to visit with out CTO and co-founder in person or on-line. He is available every Wednesday evening and often spends up to 3 hours answering questions from people throughout the country. He does not leave until all your questions are answered. Obviously, you should ask anyone in the LA and OC metro areas about any of the above statements.
  • sam
    sam
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    Mar 14, 2018
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    Not recommended

    I am sure the instructors know how to write code an and develop websites, but teaching students to do the same is not their strong suit. The entire class felt like an online session. Something you didn't need to sit 4 hours in a classroom to learn. In fact, 60% of class time was spent researching the  answers for oneself because the instructions and directions were not clearly written or stated. Receiving any viable information from the instructors about the course material was compa...

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  • Jordan
    Jordan
    Software Developer • Graduate • Los Angeles
    Jun 26, 2018
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    Not What They Appear To Be

    Sabio does what it says on the tin: they'll teach you to code and(mostly) help you get a job in the field. At least it worked for me. I would take everything they say with a grain of salt though as their talent for marketing far exceeds their ability to deliver on those marketing promises.

    For half of my cohort, C44 which graduated in December 2017, have yet to find work. That's a 50% employment rate for *my* peers(I hear it was better in the past). I would be extremely leary of Sa...

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    Liliana Aide Monge of Sabio

    CEO & Co-Founder

    Jul 02, 2018

    Jordan, 

    I do not understand what has transpired since you graduated at the end of December 2017 to make you this upset with our program.  I am going to clarify a couple of false claims you made in your post, primarily, that 50% of your cohort is unemployed. This is 100% inaccurate. There is only person that has not found full-time employment, and he moved outside of Southern California, where a majority of our employer contacts are located. Every other person is working or is a tech entrepreneur or a student, your claims are false.  Also, you have mentioned on our internal slack channel that you were super happy and grateful to the Sabio Community because all of your reliable job leads came from the community you are now trashing. You work at a job opportunity that was posted on our internal slack jobs channel, and the entire sabio nation gave you a positive referral.  I hope that you seek assistance for whatever is ailing you; however, Sabio did nothing but provide you with support and education for 6 months, and for your 3 months while you were searching for a job.  May you find comfort and solace and move forward in a positive light.  

    Lastly, your CSC 1010 instructor was Jitin, and your bootcamp instructor was Dan, both are industry professionals and not Sabio Grads.   We have two Sabio grads, Danny and Hector that help during the on-boarding and prework / week zero part of the program that is instruction we provide at very little to no-cost PRIOR to the cohort beginning.  Gripping about getting additional assistance before you start the coding bootcamp from Danny and Hector is completely unreasonable and is not tantamount to your erroneous statement "They use grads to teach". That is categorically false.

    You got onto our community slack and began to disparage all our community members; therefore,  you were removed from slack. I think that is the reason why you came onto this review site to write your review, because we refuse to allow you to belittle and abuse our community members. 

    You graduated at the end of December 2017 and you have been employed as a software engineer for months now, it is time you move on to greener pastures, and posting on this review site from your cushy tech job is really unnecessary.  



  • Anonymous
    Full Stack Weekday Training (12 weeks) • Los Angeles
    Aug 29, 2015
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    The Best Boot Camp in LA

    Where do I start?

    Simply put..

     You won't regret the decision to enroll here.

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  • Eduardo
    Eduardo
    Software developer • Graduate • Full Stack Weekday Training (12 weeks) • Los Angeles
    Aug 22, 2015
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    Awesome

    Best experience of my life, I found a developer job less than a month after graduation, the level of dedication of the Cofounders and instructors is awesome.
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  • Nick
    Nick
    Full Stack .Net Developer • Graduate • Full Stack Weekday Training (12 Weeks) • Orange County
    Dec 19, 2016
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    Sabio is the truth

    If you're reading this then you're probably in the same position I was six months ago scrolling through course report. I hated my job and needed a career change. I come from a sales background with no college degree and had absolutely ZERO coding knowledge. I was always passionate about computers and technology so I started doing some research. I came across Sabio and a couple other coding bootcamps. I went to an info session at Sabio with Aaron(Orange County Instr...

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  • Johnny
    Johnny
    Software Engineer • Graduate • YPI Tech Hire Bootcamp • Los Angeles
    Jul 03, 2018
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    Sabio is Number 1

    I always wanted to be a software developer, and Sabio made that dream of mine come true. Just like you I read reviews here and found out about this amazing community. Liliana and Gregorio the founders of Sabio are two of the nicest people I have ever met. Meeting Gregorio assured me that this is unlike any other bootcamp and that they really care about me and my success as a developer. My instructor Dan is one of the most knowledgable, and experienced software developers, and technology sp...

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  • Brandon
    Brandon
    Software Engineer • Graduate • Full Stack Weekday Training (12 Weeks) • Orange County
    Oct 06, 2016
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    Just read this, make your own decision

    This review is not intended to get you to sign up for Sabio, I'm merely going to state my experience and I’ll leave the decision making up to you. Skip to the bottom if you want the abridged version.

    Unlike many people probably reading this, I actually knew someone who went through Sabio (his name is also Brandon and provided one of the reviews below) and I had the opportunity to grill him on his experience, what he thought it was worth, if it was ...

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  • Motohiro Yamada
    Motohiro Yamada
    Software Application Support and Engineer at LA Capital • Graduate • Full Stack Weekday Training (12 Weeks) • Orange County
    Apr 29, 2016
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    Thank you Sabio!

    I. My Job Before Sabio: Server at a restaurant. 

    II. My Job After Sabio: Software Application Support and Engineer at LA Capital

    III. Why Sabio:

         A. Learn technology that gets you jobs!

              1. I learned HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJs, ASP.NET                   MVC, ASP.NET Wep API, C#, SQL Server, T-Sql, etc. 

              2.  Fact: JavaScript, C...

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  • Anonymous
    Software Engineer • Graduate • Full Stack Weekday Training (12 weeks) • Los Angeles
    Nov 05, 2015
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    Learn Full Stack .NET Web Development The Right Way: Go to Sabio.la

    My, my, my, where to even begin? I'm sure whatever words come next will be wholly inadequate but let me give it a shot anyway. 

    I'm a math teacher by training--Bachelors and Masters from UC Davis, with nearly 20 years of teaching experience. I'm pretty damn good at that. I've taught fairly advanced math to a Cal Berkeley engineering student--multi-variate and vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, basic ODEs and PDEs. I have a poster on my bedroom wall that contain...

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Sabio Alumni Outcomes

82%
Employment Rate
93%
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Below is the 180 Day Employment Breakdown for 39 graduates included in report:
180 Day employment breakdown
Employed in-field82.0%
Full-time employee82.0%
Full-time apprenticeship, internship or contract position0.0%
Short-term contract, part-time, or freelance0.0%
Started a new company or venture after graduation0.0%
Not seeking in-field employment3.0%
Employed out-of-field5.0%
Continuing to higher educationN/A
Not seeking a job for health, family, or personal reasonsN/A
Still seeking job in-field10.0%
Could not contact0.0%
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Sabio Alumni Reviews Summary

Based on 250+ Sabio alumni reviews on Course Report, the school is highly regarded for its comprehensive software engineering program. Alumni praise the program for its deep dive into languages and technologies like JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, .NET Core, and SQL, and for equipping students with both front-end and back-end development skills. One review encapsulates this sentiment: "Sabio not only equips you with a comprehensive skill set in programming but also goes the extra mile in providing job placement resources." However, the intensive nature of the program requires significant commitment and effort.
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Sabio was approved by the State of California Bureau for Private Post Secondary Education in July of 2016. We pay our annual license fees to BPPE and we submit annual Student Performance Fact Sheet to the state of ca every Dec.
FAQs

How much does Sabio cost?

Sabio costs around $15,000. On the lower end, some Sabio courses like Node.js Full Stack with React cost $9,500.

Where does Sabio have campuses?

Sabio has in-person campuses in Los Angeles, Orange County, and Riverside. Sabio also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.

Is Sabio worth it?

The data says yes! In 2016, Sabio reported a 93% graduation rate, a median salary of $65,000, and 82% of Sabio alumni are employed. The data says yes! In 2018, Sabio reported a 97% graduation rate, a median salary of $72,500, and 79% of Sabio alumni are employed.

Is Sabio legit?

We let alumni answer that question. 255 Sabio alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Sabio and rate their overall experience a 4.53 out of 5.

Does Sabio offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?

Yes, Course Report is excited to offer an exclusive Sabio scholarship for $5000 off tuition! Sabio accepts the GI Bill!

Can I read Sabio reviews?

You can read 255 reviews of Sabio on Course Report! Sabio alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Sabio and rate their overall experience a 4.53 out of 5.

Is Sabio accredited?

Sabio was approved by the State of California Bureau for Private Post Secondary Education in July of 2016. We pay our annual license fees to BPPE and we submit annual Student Performance Fact Sheet to the state of ca every Dec.

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