But can I get a job?

Here’s ^ how most people try and teach we development. It does seem to work for a very small percentage of people who can just follow along, memorize, and chug along. But for most people – it doesn’t work. We try not to say “most” people — but in this case, there’s proof. Derek has met with hundreds of students during and after CS college and coding boot camps.

In the DFTW program, our goal isn’t to “get you a job as fast as possible” so, we don’t aim for slipping you into a surface-level React dev job. Do we want to help you get a job? Yes. But we’re going to do it the way we believe in.

We designed our program to layer up. See that blue bar at the bottom? That doesn’t end in week three (you’re learning it the entire span of the course).

What happens after a college degree? You’ll have the foundations of how computers work and know a bit about writing software. Usually you’ll hope for an internship. You’re only really prepared for a few types of entry-level jobs.

What happens after a coding boot camp? Usually you have a few projects and you sorta remember how they work. You send out hundreds (or thousands) of applications and hope someone picks you out of the hay stack. You’re only really prepared to work with that one stack at the surface level – and there is no shortage of people in that same position.

We know that “Design” is a scary concept. You probably just want to bury your head in code and wait for a job to appear, right?

The difference with our goals at PE – are that we’re not trying to “turn you into a coder to place at a coding job.” We aren’t a job placement company. Our goal is to get you a full foundation for how to think about designing and building web applications (not just coding).

Because of this foundation – you’re able to truly explore everything. That sounds like too much “stuff” and like it might be too vague (how can you cover all that?), but as you’ll see – it allows us to actually you to learn faster and more deeply.

Our students often find their niche in areas they wouldn’t have expected. Some people start out assuming their aiming for software engineer roles and end up doing UX. Others aim for front-end dev roles and end up doing graphic design and branding.

Past students often write us emails along the lines of “Hey – my company is hiring and they said they want more people like me!” (meaning well rounded, fun to work with, and who can learn on the job, and who’s probably a lot more connected to the bigger picture design philosophy than everyone else).

That’s where you come in. They need more Peters and Andys and Emilys. We’ll make sure you get the grand tour – and then we’ll help you zero in on whatever area is the best fit and go deep – and well, be better than everyone else (it is a competition, right?).