MakerSquare
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Austin, Texas, San Francisco, California, Los Angeles, California, New York City USA |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 2013 |
| Founders | Shehzan Devani, Ravi Parikh, Harsh Patel, Shaan Shah |
| Faculty | 30 |
| Enrollment | 120 (every 3 months) |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | Texas Workforce Commission Career Schools and Colleges, Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education |
| Focus | JavaScript |
| Website | makersquare |
MakerSquare was a provider of software engineering bootcamp based in Austin, TX, with additional campus locations in San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY. MakerSquare provided a career-focused program that includes job training and employer outreach within its curriculum. In January 2015, MakerSquare was purchased by software engineering bootcamp Hack Reactor, and in 2016, all MakerSquare campuses were rebranded to share the Hack Reactor name.
MakerSquare was founded in 2013 by Harsh Patel, Shaan Shah, Shehzan Devani, and Ravi Parikh. The four created the company with no investor funding and initially operated from Parikh's parent's home. MakerSquare was acquired by Hack Reactor in January 2015 for an undisclosed amount. Since the acquisition, MakerSquare has adopted the Hack Reactor curriculum, course structure and name.
MakerSquare was originally located on Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, TX; however, it was since relocated to the offices of Capital Factory, within the Omni Hotel, still in downtown Austin. MakerSquare opened a second campus in SoMa in San Francisco, CA in 2014 and subsequently two more campuses in Los Angeles (2015) and New York City (2016).
MakerSquare has adopted the Hack Reactor program which is a course where students spend 12-weeks learning software engineering for 60 to 80 hours a week. Cohorts usually consist of 15 to 30 students with a low student-to-teacher ratio. Students are expected to have an intermediate level understanding of JavaScript before entering. Following completion of the course, MakerSquare students are assisted in their job search by the MakerSquare Student Outcomes team, and connected to their hiring network of 300+ employers. The Student Outcomes staff also provide support for resume preparation, technical interview readiness, personal branding, online presence management, and personal portfolio creation. Immersive courses start every seven weeks. Currently, MakerSquare has achieved a 96% placement rate. Graduate salaries average $106,000 in San Francisco, $92,000 in Los Angeles, and $75,000 in Austin with a 96% success rate of graduates who were placed in a full-time programming job within 3 months of graduation.
MakerSquare offered a part-time course which allowed students to focus on a particular division of web development. MakerSquare's part-time courses were geared towards professionals seeking not to become developers, but to understand more technical aspects of their career. As of November 2014, these classes have been discontinued and have been replaced with MakerPrep, a part-time evenings class for aspiring programmers.
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