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Online learning that ends with a job. Learn data science, UX/UI, software engineering, cyber security, and tech sales skills with 1:1 mentoring from industry pros - get a real job or your money back.
Springboard (springboard.com) has 358 customer reviews on Rated Honest, with an average rating of 4.3 out of 5.
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Cysry G.
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It is waste of time and money.You had better start master degree in this field instead of bootcamp way.I got 500 rejections simply I have SP background.I talked many managers and they said they have bias to bootcamp learners.I never took assistance from them that I expect for finding a job.
Gautham S.
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I have taken up the datascience course from springboard last year 2019 April for 1.95 lakhs and here is my honest review Curriculum: The curriculum is taken from different websites(youtube,datacamp,etc) which can be available free of cost.. Springboard does not have their own content.The curriculum is also not at all ordered, you don't have any link between different units of the curriculum, thus I rate the curriculum as low class.You don't have to buy the( free )content offered by springboard for 1.95lakhs Mentorship: This is the most interesting topic.Springboard India claims that the mentorship is their strongest part of the course.I was looking forward to something good,and the response that I got from my mentorship is completely opposite.Very disappointing.The mentor does not help with projects and tries to avoid questions by sending you some random googled links and telling to study from that.So it is evident here that the mentors are not aware of the curriculum and the curriculum is definitely not industry standard.The mentorship does not work! I believe each individual can learn datascience without springboard.I actually got depressed after enrolling to Springboard.I regret spending my hard earned money on this Career coaching: They give you(freely available) links to prepare your resume, they tell you to update your linked in profile and whatever we update on our profile they say it's fantastic! Last but not the least,career coaches scout linked in for job opportunities and they copy it in a word document, convert it to a PDF doc and send us that doc via mails to apply for the jobs ourselves.So basically I'm paying my 1.95 lakhs for nothing here! I can find jobs myself on linked inThey don't have any job portal or any partnership with any companies.I have made a bad choice but I hope all data science aspirants do not chose this course from Springboard
Komal K.
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"Springboard India is a Trap! Don't fall for it at any cost." I started this Spring board India data science Career track program with a broken promise that I will become a Data Scientist in 6 months and get 40-60%hike on my current pay. But trust me, they have made their course in a way, that you will never be able to complete it on time and further the curriculum is not at all appropriate. Basically, it contains YouTube links and a few modules of Datacamp. There is no one to monitor your performance and the Q & A sessions are just a waste of time. Trust me guys, this program is not designed for students to be successful. Not a single assignment was graded or was any feedback given. Save your time and money. Spring board is one of the most expensive bootcamps out there. It is definitely not worth the money they ask.
Vishwam S.
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"***My Experience or Journey with Springboard***#SAYNOTOSPRINGBOARD" Cons: Course-Fee-17,5000/- #SAY NO TO SPRINGBOARD 1.Joined Springboard with a aspiration of becoming of data scientist but got totally fooled when i saw the curriculm and the way they are just taking materials from other Ed-tech websites and just serving us. 2.Job gurantee and mentorship is totally very unorganised and very falsely implemented and not at all good . 3.There are lot of false promises and many students who are completing the course are not at all satisfied with the course and curriculum and left unemplOyed 4.This Course is not going to "CONVERT YOU A DATA SCIENTIST" as the curriculm is not well updated and not at all well structured 5.They demand huge amount of money for this course which they get it from other edtech websites like khan academy,Datacamp and youtube videos which we can easily get it in small pay 6.There cost weekly basis ****** WHEN I ASKED FOR REFUND THIS CALCULATION THEY GAVE ME**** Course Fee/Block Payment: Rs. 17,5000/- Course Duration (Weeks) - 32 Per Week Amount - Rs. 5,469/- Duration of Student (Weeks) - 6 months = 24 weeks Total Amount - 5469*24 = 1,31,250/- Total Deduction (round off) - 1,30,000/- Refund amount: 45,000/- ***** THIS IS TO TOTALLY FRAUD AND BASELESS PRICE****** 7.Even nothing was transperent on offer letter about weekly cost and all,they are just fooling around people just to fill there pocket and looting people hard earn money *****OFFICE HOURS IS ANOTHER TWIST IN THE COURSE****** -> HERE THEY SAY THAT WE HAVE INDUSTRY EXPERTS WHO WILL GUIDE AND YOU AND WILL LEARN FROM. SO,THE REALITY IS ONCE A WEEK SOME INDUSTRY EXPERT COMES TAKE A ONE HOUR SESSION ON ANY RANDOM TOPIC,FOR THEM IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT STUDENT UNDERSTANDING LEVEL IS AND TILL WHERE HE HAS COMPLETED HIS TOPIC FOR EXAMPLE: "YOUR ARE IN FIRST UNIT AND THEY WILL TAKE SESSION ON 8 UNIT" -> THERE COURSE IS TOTALLY GOING TO BRING FRUSTRATION ON YOU MAINLY WHEN YOU ARE WORKING FULL TIME AND DOING THIS COURSE AND PRICE IS NOT AT ALL WORTH THE MONEY CONCLUSION: PLEASE SAVE YOUR MONEY BECAUSE MARKET IS FULL OF FRAUD PEOPLE AND THEY WILL JUST PLAY WITH YOUR DREAM BY LOOTING YOU. #SAYNOTOSPRINGBOARD
Palash M.
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I joined Spring board india Data science Career track in june 2019. here is my experience : I joined spring board india data science career track 2019. here is my experince: If you accept starting with Springboard be ready for -- No job assistance(You will have to find job yourself) -- 6 months job guarantee is a liar. -- There are lots of unemployment Spring board alumni. -- 30 min mentor time once a week is not sufficient and satisfying. · it’s not worth at all, simply i can say waste of your hard-earned money and waste of time as well. So called mentors will be not available as per the schedules and they don’t spend much time with the students in explaining their doubts or explaining the concept. · Next coming to so called office hours, coding support sessions it’s just for the name sake they fix up the sessions without even asking/discussing our availability time, i can they do as per their need. · They force you to enrol for the course by paying 1.95 Lakhs and they also provide you easy EMI/Loan by third party finance company, after your enrolment they don’t even care/bother about you concerns related to course. · Most imp thing is, they state you like 100%per job guarantee after the successful completion of your course in 6 months but the hard fact is you can’t complete the course within the stipulated time as they mentioned since you don’t get proper support from mentors/support team after your enrolment in any manner and course is not easy at all as they state you while enrolling. · Whenever you try to reach support team/student adviser to discuss your concerns they don’t pick your call many times and if they receive the call they just say will come back to you in few min/EOD or will solve within EOD but you don’t get any solutions on time or they try to convince you as per their needs. · whenever you try to raise your concerns regarding the course, you will get only one statement/answer like you are not attending sessions properly, not following the mentor instructions or you are not spending your time. They will never ever agree their mistakes and listen you concerns as well. · Most pathetic part - When you say i am not satisfied with the course or if you ask for the cancellation and your money back, they simply say we don’t have refund policy at all and they will again try to convince you to the fullest with the flashy words/statements. It’s like mental harassment. · My suggestions please don’t waste your hard money and time as well. · if you are interested to learn data science and to make career transition, we have many institute in Bangalore who offer data science course, ML, AI course with very minimum fee ranges like 15–45k with excellent course structure so please don’t get fool y enrolling Springboard. · All the videos/materials provided by springboard are available for free in YouTube. · When the entire course material is free resources why they are charging 1.95 Lakhs I don’t understand · Mentor ship (mentor call) is something they make as a star of the program. But you will get to interact with your mentor once in a week only for half an hour. · I never got a chance to discuss in detail with my mentor as there was a time constraint (mentor is be not available after 30min) · Springboard is not helpful at all, all they are doing now, are blaming the students. · Whatever the things/words which i explained above, it’s my pathetic experience and wasted money as well. · Now for the curriculum. This was sadly most dissappointing. The course mainly revolves around data camp courses. And then these are supplemented by youtube lectures from Harvard or other institutions that would talk about the subject with the impression that you have intermediate knowledge of the subject matter, despite it being a beginners intro video to a concept. I have had much better success with the self study resources available on the internet, such as youtube tutorials etc. There was no feel of an actual
Response from Springboard· Jun 14, 2020
Hi Palash, We are sorry to hear you had a poor experience. I am sure it was likely a misunderstanding as our students' success is our most important goal. -- 6 months job guarantee is a liar. We uphold our job guarantee offering in all our Career Tracks. This means if you do not get a job offer from completing the Career Track, you get a refund on the tuition you paid. Our career tracks are designed to be completed in a period averaging six months when you dedicate at least 20/hrs a week on completing the program. -- There are lots of unemployment Springboard alumni. We are not sure which source of information you might be referencing to. Could you share the source of this information with us so we can check it's validity? In the meantime, we invite you to visit our student success page: https://www.springboard.com/success/ Or a report we published a couple of months ago about our job placement in the data science field. https://workshops.springboard.com/student-outcomes/ -- 30 min mentor time once a week is not sufficient and satisfying. Our students have the option of booking more calls with a mentor in their respective Career Track. If you could share the email that you used to register and take our Career Track, I will reach out to my counterpart in our India office so they can reach out to you. Thank you, The Springboard Team
PRIYESH M.
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Hi guys Today I am here to review my experience with Springboard as a alumni of its Data science Career Track Just one sentence - Don't take it. Company is Fraud. I pursued this course because of their title of Job guarantee and wondered that if they are so sure about job guarantee then they must have content worthy and detailed enough to land me a job. But after completing it about 50% I realised that none of their content is original. It's just scrambled from internet and piled in their curriculum. Also they use Data Camp premium package of Data Science Course which is just a fill in the blanks for its users. You will know what is it about the topic taught but never will be able to bring it to use because coding doesn't work this way. IF YOU WANT TO ACCESS SPRINGBOARD MATERIAL JUST GO TO GOOGLE AND TYPE SPRINGBOARD EXERCISES GIT-HUB. There you are with access to full curriculum which is again a borrowed material from different free websites of data science. Other than this before taking the course I was promised by their team that springboard will place interviews for me with different companies when I will complete 70% of curriculum which is a lie because when I discussed this with there ex career coaches, they told me that you have to apply yourself. Springboard don't place interviews for you. Coming to their Mentor assistance thats just a 5 min call in a week . Just a formality which mentors do. In real they don't care about your doubts, progress, growth. I felt that mentor didn't knew anything about my learning and the assignments that I submitted maybe not even reviews my work on Capstone projects. Me personally was told to look up to google and youtube whenever I asked doubt from my mentor. And why will they when the organization itself doesn't care about you. Springboard support team is filled with lazy and sleepyheads. Office hours in which they acquire some data scientist working professional to discuss a topic is a utter waste of time. Session is filled with student who know a lot already and newbies. So the discussion in call deviates from the topic everytime to unrelated answering of literally stupid questions. Leaves you with self-doubt. Specialized ML track gives you options to select between Advance ML topics, NLP, Deep Learning. Again a pile of unstructured and irrelevant content and I think all the tracks have same content almost no matter what you take. Those who are from non technical background turn back spare yourself.1 My advice as a victim of Springboard- If you are looking to join Springboard to learn data science and get a job after investing 2 lakhs. Dont do it. Utter waste of your time, money and effort. There are plenty of cheap ways to learn data science . SAY NO TO SPRINGBOARD.
Prakash K.
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It has been a great experience learning online. The curriculum is sharp, does not dwell too much on theories rather gives emphasis to practical learning. Curated content is good.
Steven
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Springboard helped me get a better understanding of the full ML stack. It goes beyond just what you can learn from other specialization like deeplearning.ai or fast.ai. You get to look at all of the tools involved, such as pyspark and dask for data handling, XGBOOST, scikit-learn and tensorflow for modeling and docker and AWS for deployment. The 1:1 mentorship aspect of the course is also extremely valuable as you get direct access with industry professionals to help you through difficult course components and your capstone project. While I do wish the NLP portion of the course went into a little bit more applicational depth, the tools you learn from the course making learning specific NLP applications much easier.
