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HackBright Academy Reviews

3.9

45% would recommend to a friend

(11 total reviews)

Karl McDonnell

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31% positive business outlook

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11 reviews
2.0
2 Feb 2018

Acquisition Was Bad News

Anonymous employee
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Pros

When I started the people were really mission driven. It is small so you have the chance to do a lot and make a big impact.

Cons

When HB was acquired, everything started going downhill. Capella wanted to make money off of it and started scaling too fast. They ruined the relationships HB had worked had to create with partner companies and alum. They fired so many leaders on the team who were around before the acquisition and then replaced them with incompetent people from outside the tech industry. Also they have zero perks, you will get a paycheck and health but that's it.

2.0
7 Nov 2022

Strange and aggressive offboarding

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Pros

Hackbright's mission is awesome (getting more underrepresented genders into software engineering)

Cons

-I was a part time instructor for Hackbright's Python prep course. I stopped teaching for a few months and asked to come back to TA there software engineering course (one of the team management members said this would be fine). They said they were discussing it and I sent 2-3 follow up slack messages mostly to the management memebers of the software engineering program. These were all completely ignored and they booted me from the Slack without saying anything. I received excellent reviews as an instructor and feel this was completely inappropriate considering the effort I'd put in as a Hackbright instructor. -Their material is honestly not concise or well written and could be taught in a much more effective way. -MANY students have difficulty finding jobs after leaving Hackbright but we are sort of forced to lie about this as instructors. Some came back and tried to be TAs at Hackbright after not being able to find jobs.

5.0
28 Mar 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Very supportive and patient learning environment

Cons

I wish I had more support with finding a job during such a difficult job market

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