Hack Reactor
| Hack Reactor | |
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| Location | |
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San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland, California; Austin, Texas USA |
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| 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 |
| Website | hackreactor.com |
Hack Reactor is a 12-week software engineering Coding Bootcamp education program founded in San Francisco by Anthony Phillips, Shawn Drost, Marcus Phillips, and Douglas Calhoun in 2012.
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." The curriculum focuses on JavaScript and associated technologies including the MEAN stack, React and Backbone.
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." The following month, a pair of Hack Reactor alumni partnered with the company to open Telegraph Academy "to teach software engineering to under-represented minorities" and create a "growing community of diverse software engineers." In November 2016, Hack Reactor rebranded all of its schools to share the Hack Reactor name.
Hack Reactor’s admissions process consists of a simple coding challenge, followed by a technical interview. The coding challenge focuses on basic JavaScript concepts, such as objects, arrays and functions. The technical interview is more involved and tests both technical skills and soft skills, such as the student’s willingness and ability to learn.
The admissions standard has been described as "highly selective, only accepting ten to fifteen percent of applicants for each cohort." Though most applicants who do not pass the first admission interview are encouraged to try again when they feel they are better prepared.
Hack Reactor has created financial partnerships with Pave, SkillsFund and Climb Credit and to assist students with paying tuition. As of 2016, WeFinance and Reactor Core (Hack Reactor's parent company) have launched a platform that allows anyone to lend to incoming students.
Accepted students are assigned pre-course work, which takes "at least 50-80 hours" and is due prior to the start of their cohort.
Hack Reactor’s course is 12 weeks long. During the first half of the program, students work in pairs on two-day “sprints.” Pair and group work helps teach communication and collaboration skills. During this part of the course, the day typically starts with a “toy problem,” which is a programming challenge designed to illustrate core concepts. This is followed by a lecture in which the instructor frequently checks in with students to assess how well they understand the material. The JavaScript tools and technologies taught at Hack Reactor include Angular, Node, MongoDB, Express, React, Backbone and ES6. The goal of this part of the course is for students to become “autonomous learners and programmers.”
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