Hack Reactor

Hack Reactor
Location
San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland, California; Austin, Texas
USA
Information
Type Private
Motto The CS degree for the 21st century
Established 2012
Founders Anthony Phillips, Shawn Drost, Marcus Phillips, and Douglas Calhoun
Faculty 60+
Campus Urban
Accreditation none[1]
Website hackreactor.com

Hack Reactor is a 12-week software engineering Coding Bootcamp [2] education program originally founded in San Francisco by Anthony Phillips, Shawn Drost, Marcus Phillips, and Douglas Calhoun in 2012.[3] It is one of the most expensive "coding boot camps" in San Francisco with tuition set at US$17,780 per student in 2013, while boasting a 98+% job placement rate into positions with average starting salaries in the low six-figure range.[1][4][5] The admissions standard has been described as "highly selective, only accepting ten to fifteen percent of applicants for each cohort,"[3] and as "brutal... accept[ing] just one student for every 30 applicants,"[1] though most applicants who do not pass the first admission interview are encouraged to try again when they feel they are better prepared.[6]

Cofounder Drost has described the program as, "optimized for people who want to be software engineers as their main, day-to-day work. Their life's work."[1] The curriculum has focused on JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and the MEAN stack.[5] Wired magazine called it, "a place where you learn by practice. When you show up, you’re tossed into a group of other students and you’re all given a common project meant to further your understanding of computer science and engineering. You work 11 hours a day, six days a week."[7] There has been a long tradition among students of maintaining a weekly blog about their experiences in the program.[8]

In 2015 Hack Reactor acquired Austin-based MakerSquare as "their first deal in a plan to develop a network of coding bootcamps" in an effort to "make a large dent in transforming the old education system into one that focuses on student outcomes."[9] The following month, a pair of Hack Reactor alumni partnered with the company to open Telegraph Academy in Oakland, California, "to teach software engineering to under-represented minorities and create a network of tech workers of color."[10]

Student intake and outreach initiatives

The Hack Reactor application process includes an online application and two interviews. Accepted students are assigned approximately 100 hours of pre-work that is due prior to the start of their cohort.[11] Currently, Hack Reactor has a 99% graduate hire rate with $105,000 average salary.[12]

Hack Reactor has created financial partnerships with Earnest, Pave, and WeFinance to assist students with paying tuition.[13] As of 2016, WeFinance and Reactor Core (Hack Reactor's parent company) have launched a platform that allows graduates to lend to incoming students.[14]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Downs, David (13 October 2013). "Elite S.F. coding bootcamp fast-tracks programming training". The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco Media Company LLC). Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Cirriculum". Hack Reactor. 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015. After 12 intense weeks of training and mentorship, Hack Reactor students graduate as full-stack Software Engineers and expert-level JavaScript programmers.
  3. 1 2 Johnson, Alicia (11 April 2015). "Hack Reactor seeks to bridge the technology divide". Tech Generation Magazine (Long Beach, CA). Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  4. ↑ Mangalindan, JP (10 October 2013). "Can Silicon Valley boot camps get you a $120K job?". Fortune (Time, Inc). Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  5. 1 2 Russell, Kyle (14 June 2013). "12 New Companies That Will Make Going To College Unnecessary". Business Insider. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Pethiyagoda, Ruan (9 June 2015). "Did Hack Reactor become a group full of elitists?". Quora. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  7. ↑ Finley, Klint (3 June 2013). "Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer on Way to Chess World Record". Wired.com. Condé Nast. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  8. ↑ Silva, Jorge (6 November 2014). "Week #1 @ Hack Reactor". theJSJ.com. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  9. ↑ Newman, Kira M. (21 January 2015). "Coding Bootcamp Hack Reactor Acquires MakerSquare". Tech Cocktail. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  10. ↑ Dugdale, Emily (22 June 2015). "Berkeley coding school aims to help close tech race gap". Berkeleyside. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "Hack Reactor Curriculum". www.hackreactor.com/. Hack Reactor.
  12. ↑ "Hack Reactor". hackreactor.com.
  13. ↑ "Hack Reactor FAQ". http://hackreactor.com. Hack Reactor. External link in |website= (help)
  14. ↑ http://reactorcore.com/wefinance-launches-reactor-core-funding-page/

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