LEARN academy

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Address:
704 J Street, San Diego, CA 92101
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Website:
learnacademy.org

Phone number:
+1 619-940-7848

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Reviews about LEARN academy

• Debbie Espino

  Oct, 16 2018
  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  My experience at LEARN was life changing! I went into the journey from a non-technical background and was amazed at how much I could learn and absorb on the technical side. The staff was very supportive, and the alumni community were also great resources. LEARN is really connected to the San Diego Tech community, and their internship process is growing. My internship was great, and would have turned into a permanent role had I stayed in San Diego. The hardest part was quitting my job, but I'm so happy I did. I have since moved, started my own company, and freelance on a wide variety of projects. I never stop learning, and I love that I have the alumni community to connect with on a regular basis.
• Krista Morrison

  Feb, 13 2018
  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  A year ago, I was a wedding planner. Today, I am a software engineer at a Fortune 50 company.
  
  People laugh when I tell them that…like they think it must be a joke. Let’s be real: it does sound like a joke. But it’s 100% true, and that is in large part due to my experience at LEARN.
  
  I had a background in math and computer science, but life took me in a different direction, and a few years after college I found myself running my own wedding planning business. Fast forward almost a decade, and I had come to a crossroads. It was time to switch things up, and that meant either pursuing event planning in a different avenue, or returning to my roots. I chose the latter.
  
  Obviously, my college education was outdated and, in the world of tech, pretty much obsolete. I needed some help to get back in the game. So I started to look into boot camps. I researched my options, and was pretty set on the fact that I was going to have to leave San Diego for several months in order to pursue this dream. Then I found LEARN.
  
  From the moment I met Rob, Chelsea, Lisa, and the other staff, I knew these were my kind of people. When your interview feels more like catching up with an old friend you just never happened to have met yet, you know you’re in the right spot. Which is not to say that they don’t take this seriously. It’s called a boot camp for a reason; you will be challenged, at times your brain will be fried, and you will wonder, “what on earth have I gotten myself into?” But you will also find yourself surrounded by a community of people who are interested in not only seeing you succeed in the course, but who are committed to your overall well-being long after you’ve graduated.
  
  Full disclosure: Everything about my experience wasn’t just peaches and cream. There were difficult personalities to work with. My internship experience was not the perfect fit, and I didn’t get a job from it like I had hoped. It took me 15 minutes to figure out how to turn on the computer on my first day, and I was sure that I’d just made a huge mistake by signing up for this thing…
  
  But it turned out to be the best decision I’ve ever made. LEARN gave me a foundation in web development, and more importantly, taught me how to learn web development. After all, that is what a career in development is all about: constant learning.
  
  Three months after graduating, I interviewed for a software engineering position at a Fortune 50 company. It was a full-day interview with multiple coding challenges and technical interviews with various senior engineers. Because of LEARN, I was confident in my technical skills, and made it through each challenge happy with my performance. I got the job offer that night. Scratch that. I got a job offer that night which was far beyond what I had let myself hope for.
  
  I’m now six months in to my job, and loving every second of it. I can’t believe I get to do something so fun as a job, and that I get so well paid for it. Going to LEARN catapulted me into this new career, and I will be forever grateful. Not to mention, I made some incredible friendships with the other students and staff which go far deeper than just working together in tech.
  
  Go to LEARN. Gain an education. Leave with a family.
• Lindsey Handley

  Dec, 27 2017
  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  Our small business, ThoughtSTEM, is a partner of LEARN. As partners, we provide 1-month internship experiences for LEARN students after they learn Ruby/Javascript for 3 months. It's been a fantastic partnership - LEARN students have been excellently proficient after only 3 months of coding education and they always contribute positively to the projects they work on with us. We've had two groups of LEARN interns so far who worked on: (1) designing back-end software that we use manage our after-school coding programs for kids all around San Diego; (2) developing features of a virtual reality video game that will be used to teach people how to code in the future. In addition to internships, LEARN also hosts a variety of awesome community events which we have attended. They recently moved to a beautiful space downtown. And, in general, they are really fantastic people who love what they do!

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