market demand
The Growing Skills Gap
The US Dept. of Labor expects the demand for developers to grow by 24% between 2016-2026. This equates to a need for 8 new career changers, every day, for the next 10 years. Our goal is to train people to take high-paying new roles.
An emergency medical technician
Elson Matthew (Matt)
Matt spent 3 and a half years working as an EMT but had a deep desire to change careers and become a web developer. Matt now works as a Software Engineer at a VR startup, helping to shape the way people operate in the workplace.
A Construction Manager
Shaun Shapiro
Shaun graduated from college and began a career as a project manager in construction, but shortly realized he wasn’t satisfied. He started to explore coding, and after playing around with Python and a few tutorials, he was hooked.
An Entrepreneur
Thomas Petrini
Thomas had raised over $2 million from investors for his previous company, building it into 10 employees with operations in five states. However, as he set out on his next venture, he knew firsthand the limitations he would face as a non-technical founder trying to launch a business.
An Air Force Veteran
Walley Yang
After 12 years in the U.S. Air Force, Walley decided that he wanted to transition full time into programming. With a full-time job and family, he didn’t have the ability to pack up his things and leave for a different state for months at a time. He knew that an online bootcamp was the right fit for his situation.
A Stay at Home Mom
Christina McIntyre
Chris had been homeschooling her children as a stay-at-home mom but was looking for an effective way to break into the technical world of software development. Living in a small, rural area, Chris knew it would be difficult to find challenging and rewarding work.
TechHire Partner
Youth Policy Institute
We’ve been selected by the Obama Administration as an official TechHire Partner for 2017 to give over $1 million dollars in scholarships to help break down the barriers to quality technical education and fix tech’s diversity problem.
what Our graduates do
Start New Careers
Our graduates have gone on to start successful new careers using the technical skills they acquired at Firehose Project
I’ve already gotten so much out of this program, and I’m very much indebted to what, in my honest view, comes across as a genuine concern and enthusiasm for coding and Firehose students’ success. I encourage anyone who is interested and believes a remote program is the right fit for them to give Firehose a chance.
I actually had to cut the course short because I got a job offer at a financial technology start-up almost two months before the course finished. [Firehose] may be one of the few bootcamps that actually has an advanced track (Angular, React, SQL, APIs, to name a few) that helps you continue learning on your own.
The lessons are much better written than anything else I have used to learn programming. They guide you on how to build the projects while also explaining how everything works. At this point in the program I really feel like I am getting my money’s worth so a big THANK YOU to the Firehose Team for putting me on the right track.
The best part of the bootcamp is that they teach you [to build] not just a website but a web application, and critical thinking. My goal [was] to land a position and after hard work I finally did. I honestly give credit to Firehose, and the push that this community gave to me.
What drew me to the Firehose Project was the emphasis on algorithms and data structures, which is something that I needed to be exposed to if I expected to make it through a technical interview.
I accepted a position as a software developer shortly after graduating.
I’ve been working as a full-time web developer. After graduating Firehose, the efforts I’ve put into becoming a developer have finally paid off.
The big difference at Firehose is the personal touch. I recommend the program to everyone. I mean, nothing is perfect, but I give you a 9.999.
You have a forum for questions, a Slack channel full of awesome students, alumni, mentors, and staff who want to get to know you and help you, and Google+ community. I never had to wait long for help.
I loved my experience with the Firehose Project. The program delivers everything it boasts at a very affordable rate, but the community is what really makes it standout for me.
The best part about this program is that they prepare you not just for Ruby, but for other object-oriented programming languages.
I switched into a new career before I even graduated from Firehose.
The Firehose Project is a fantastic bootcamp, whether you’re a programming beginner or someone with coding experience.
The Firehose Project gave me more coding and life experience than 4 years in university…And now I’m working in one of the best company in Kazakhstan, with great colleagues.
The project-based curriculum that the Firehose Project provides, combined with the supportive community and excellent one-on-one mentorship, allowed me to kickstart my learning and exposure to the world of full-stack development.
I recommend the Firehose Project if you are looking for a strong base to start your career in software/web development!
[The Agile Team Project] really gave me the opportunity to stretch my new developer wings and gain the confidence necessary to be able to go out into the world and present myself as a capable junior developer when it came time to look for jobs.
To say I simply learned a marketable skill set would be to completely ignore the true gains from the program.
The Firehose Project is really a standard above the rest and you would do well to invest time and money there. If you’re interested in getting a job as a web developer, I highly recommend you choose The Firehose Project.
There are a lot of good bootcamp programs out there but what sets Firehose apart is the personal attention you get.
