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Telegraph Academy

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Telegraph Academy is a software engineering career accelerator based out of Oakland for people of color underrepresented in tech. It was one of the first schools to launch as a part of the White House’s Tech Hire Initiative. Telegraph Academy’s curriculum was developed in partnership with Hack Reactor; and its full-time, 12-week immersive program focuses on JavaScript and related technologies. The immersive program is split into 6 weeks of technology learning and 6 weeks of project building. Telegraph Academy also runs Telegraph Prep+, a part-time prep class that is the first step towards getting into the full-time immersive program. Telegraph Prep+, which teaches the fundamentals of JavaScript and prepares students for Telegraph Academy’s admissions process, is delivered onsite and online via livestream.

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  • Anonymous
    Student • Telegraph Prep Livestream (4-Week, Part-Time prep class) • Oakland
    Jul 21, 2015
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    Telegraph Prep

    The livestream was a big let down.  I only attended part 1 since there is no way I would pay anything more for their product (there are two portions: part 1 is the first two weeks). The people running the program act like they don't give two cents about the livestream members.  The instructor isn't great and relies on referencing her experience at hack reactor as her merit.  I'd suggest Hack Reactor look at their affiliation with a weak product like Telegraph Prep.  

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  • Darryl
    Darryl
    Graduate • Telegraph Prep Livestream (4-Week, Part-Time prep class) • Oakland
    Jul 07, 2015
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    I live-streamed and...

    I live-streamed and there were some pros and cons. First, let me begin by saying this is a Beta course. I think I was the 2nd class to go through this course. What they done so far is awesome. 

    Pros: great structure, lecture material, setup, pace, pricing

    The classes are streamed via a conference room and we chat with the TA's and other students via the slack app. Each night we run through slides, then we have practice exercises that are assigned to reinforce what we ju...

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  • Mark P Jaramillo
    Mark P Jaramillo
    Graduate • Telegraph Prep Onsite (4-Week, Part-Time prep class) • Oakland
    Jun 16, 2015
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    Thanks to the team @ TGA

    Grateful and appreciative for what this team is doing, bringing code to anyone that wants to learn. I took the prep class and learned more in 4 weeks than I learned in 4 months on my own. JS is a big Octopus with many tenticles, they helped me focus on the relevent one's that  moved me into functional programming on a HigherOrder. looking forward to joining this team in a learning exp at TGA. gratitude and thanks to this team for not judging and being there to teach all.

    not affi...

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  • Grace
    Grace
    Student • Graduate • Telegraph Prep Onsite (4-Week, Part-Time prep class) • Oakland
    Jun 13, 2015
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    I did not get a good experience either.

    I did not get a good experience either in their PREP COURSE. I did the codecademy (Maybe that's not a hard work for some of the students ), but I thought their material are hard to understand. I did ask the mentor, but they don't explain it well.  I am sorry, but I have to say this.

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  • Anonymous
    Student • Telegraph Prep Onsite (4-Week, Part-Time prep class) • Oakland
    Jun 08, 2015
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    amazing experience with telegraph prep

    this review is for telegraph prep (not to be confused with telegraph academy's 12 week immersive). telegraph prep is a 4 week course that teaches beginning and intermediate javascript fundamentals. the exercises given to us after each lecture were all very challenging. i struggled at times, but the staff, all hack reactor staff and alums, were always helpful. any time i asked for help, they were all more than happy to guide me in the right direction. programming can be intimidating, but th...

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    UI Developer • Student • Telegraph Prep Onsite (4-Week, Part-Time prep class) • Oakland
    Jun 04, 2015
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    Inspiring!

    Everything about Telegraph Academy is first grade. The idea, the vision, and the people. I have gained termendously - a very informative month. 

    Please keep it up,

     

     

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  • Zach
    Zach
    Student • Telegraph Prep Onsite (4-Week, Part-Time prep class) • Oakland
    Jun 04, 2015
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    Great experience at Telegraph Prep

    While I only took weeks 3 and 4, I found Telegraph Prep to be an excellent preparation for all of my coding interviews. I was not very proficient with higher order functions, callbacks, or the underscore library before the course, but I feel very good at all of those post-TP. The instructors were awesome, the curriculum covered exactly what I expected, and the entire atmosphere was fun and conducive to learning. Also, the capstone project was excellent practice in solidifying skills learne...

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  • Clifford Fajardo
    Clifford Fajardo
    Student • Telegraph Prep Onsite (4-Week, Part-Time prep class) • Oakland
    May 31, 2015
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    Place to be for aspiring software engineers & bootcampers

    This a review for the Telegraph prep course, which is the 4-week long course designed to take beginner JavaScript coders to bootcamp ready coders. NOTE: This course assumes you have completed codecademy JavaScript course and does not teach you JavaScript from 0.

    Before Telegraph prep, I had taken the Hack Reactor weekend courses, which were amazing and intense, but I learned even more at my four weeks at Telegraph prep since the classes were spaced out and given that we had daily...

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  • Anonymous
    Telegraph Prep Onsite (4-Week, Part-Time prep class) • Oakland
    May 23, 2015
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    My experience in TA prep course

    I attended the Telegraph Academy prep school last month.

    -. Bunch confusing slides about Object, Array and Function syntax. They give you the answer (console.log), but less explanation of why? Then they moved to another page. On and on and on....fas!

    -. The mentor thinks that you are an expert on JS basic, since you have to do the JS path from Codecademy before you go there. In fact, you should do the Coderbyte (easy challenge) and understand it clearly before you go to...

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  • KM
    KM
    Telegraph Prep Onsite (4-Week, Part-Time prep class) • Oakland
    May 16, 2015
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    if(TA === awesome){console.log('Try it!!! Invest in you!');}

    Ok, so this review is for the prep course. I must say I have came a longggggggggg way. I can now read Javascript and understad what is going on in which I could not do before prep. JS was like Mandarin to me. I do come from a tech background with no coding experience except for CodeAcademy and CodeAvengers. The founders Albrey and Bianca are super supportive and really care. The environment is more familial than just a coding sweatshop. Everyone collaborates and have fun while coding. They...

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  • Ruth
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    Aug 05, 2016
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    Amazing Community

    Telegraph Academy provides an amazing student-to-teacher ratio, so each student gets lots of individual attention and support. They have great curriculum they share with Hack Reactor, and excellent instructors. Everyone believes passionately in Telegraph Academy's mission to get more people from underrepresented group (women, people of color, queer, etc) into the tech industry, which creates a strong send of community.

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  • anon
    Anonymous
    Software Engineer • Graduate • Telegraph Academy (12-Week, Full-Time Immersive Program) • Oakland
    May 25, 2016
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    Don't believe the hype

    If I could do it over I would have just attended Hack Reactor. I'll start by saying that I am now an employed software engineer. However, this a review of the school and not my own personal outcomes. The cost of attendance is the same as hack reactor, but this equal cost does not equate to equal quality. Since it labels itself as the premier coding bootcamp for people of color and underrepresented groups, it seems as though it also lowers the standards of admission if you fit into one of t...

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    Albrey Brown of Telegraph Academy

    Cofounder

    Jun 30, 2016

    Cost, educational quality, job placement and salaries:

    Your assumptions are not based in fact. Telegraph Academy and Hack Reactor are both part of the Reactor Core network which requires its schools to uphold the same educational standards and outcomes. If we we fail to uphold these standards, past or present, we would not be allowed to be a part of such a strong network of schools. In terms of educational quality, unless you’ve gone to both Telegraph Academy and Hack Reactor, it’s very difficult for us to see how you can so confidently compare the two. 

    Highly experienced instructors: 

    Our instruction team is highly experienced and they work together to teach students the skills they need when they need them. 

    Jamil Lawrence (Head Instructor of the Junior Section) has been with us for a year and is a Cornell-trained engineer with over 9 years of relevant experience. Before joining TGA, he was a Semiconductor Engineer writing and testing semiconductor software at Samsung for over four years. He also has 5 years of classroom teaching experience, and he has more than enough experience working with the specific technologies & lessons we teach in the Junior section (the first six weeks of the program). Because the Junior section of any Reactor Core school focuses on building raw engineering skills -- debugging, jumping into a code base, picking up new technologies quickly, etc. -- and material that builds core problem solving skills, Jamil’s rare mix of skill and experience make him uniquely suited to his role as the Junior Instructor. You leave his section of the program ready for the Senior section with Marc.

    Marc Christophe (Head Instructor of the Senior Section) has been with us a year as well and is tasked with acting as your lead engineer and project manager over the last 6 weeks of the program. His 10 years of Software Engineering experience makes him especially qualified to guide you through learning advanced Software Engineering concepts (i.e. test driven development, application architecture, database scheme, etc.)  and team management skills as you build your applications. He takes those raw skills Jamil helped you build in the Junior section and translates them into professional, marketable skills that enable you to build production-grade applications like a professional software engineer in the Senior section. 

    As you can see, your claim of inexperienced instructors is weak at best. Combined, our instruction team has 20+ years of relevant experience. They work in tandem to get you ready to hit the ground running on an engineering team on day one. 

    Accessible business model:

    Again, we’re having difficulty understanding how our model, which is the same as Hack Reactor and Makersquare’s, is predatory. We have the same admissions criteria (ie. we have not lowered the bar, which is an assumption that comes eerily close to the frankly racist assumption some people in the industry make about underrepresented people of color in tech) and are held to the same outcomes standards. Look at the other reviews to see whether or not this is a predatory model. The theme that we see is that TGA is a special place that has changed the lives of many and will continue to transform the industry. 

    You characterize our mission as “kool aid,” but so many other reviewers disagree. Again, if you look closely, alums are not talking about “hype,” but about the transformative experience they've had launching their software engineering careers with us. Taken together, their reviews paint a picture of high-quality instruction, strong community and incredible investment toward their careers as Software Engineers. There is nothing predatory about TGA. 

    Come talk to us:

    Finally, it really does make us sad to see that we fallen short of your expectations because we care about all of our students/alums. We’d actually love to talk to you to figure out how we can remedy your frustration that even though you’re working as a software engineer after our program, you did not get what you expected. We would like to figure out how to better meet your expectations. 


    Thank you for your feedback. We’re looking forward to hearing from you soon. 

    - Albrey Brown, Cofounder of Telegraph Academy

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