Description App Academy is a 3 month immersive web development course taught in San Francisco and New York. We're closing in on training 500 students across both locations, over 15,000 people have applied for the course, and we’ve been profitable for the last two years.
Our tuition model is game-changing. Students only pay if they find a job within a year after the course. No job, no tuition. This allows us to select students for their talent and passion regardless of what’s in their bank account. Every course bootstraps dozens of students out of financial hardship. 98% of our graduates find placement in tech jobs after the program. In 2014, SF graduates received an average salary of $105,000; in 2014, NY graduates received an average salary of $89,000.
Hiring companies include: AdRoll, Artsy, Braintree, Facebook, Google, Intuit, LinkedIn, Mixpanel, the NASDAQ, the New York Times, PayPal, Upstart, Vimeo, Stripe and Tumblr.
App Academy has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 149 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The App Academy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 55% of employees would recommend working at App Academy to a friend. This is based on 151 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
58% of job seekers rate their interview experience at App Academy as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at App Academy.