Revature reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(2,173 total reviews)
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Ashwin Bharath

76% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Revature has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,173 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Revature employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Sep 9, 2017
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Pros

Learn most commonly used technologies in enterprise-level full-stack development Become familiar with pace of real-world development and agile methodology Develop persistent problem solving, ability to work with other developers with different personalities and abilities and refine your interviewing skills. Arrive at your next job knowing all terminology used among new co-workers Become confident in approaching difficult problems with deadlines. Getting used to long hours (on as needed basis) as it's to be expected in this career path (though the bootcamp requires more time than typical developer job). Acquire mental toughness. They pay you to learn, it is not a conventional "coding bootcamp" If you show enough willingness to learn, put in the hours, be a team player, work as hard as you ever have in your life, you will not get dropped: you don't have to be a programming wiz-kid to pass, you just have to work harder if you aren't one already.

Cons

6 people in a 3 bedroom apartment. Workload (at times) can exceed full capacity to complete assignments while fully learning curriculum. Absolute minimal free-time (although the payout is well worth it), you may need to pull off one or two all-nighters $8/hr compensation

1.0
Jun 8, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The company does actually train you in a tech stack that is useful to their clients. I have seen other employees trained in stacks like Salesforce, Java/Spring, .NET/Angular, and so on.

Cons

Revature tries to hide as much information from you as possible concerning their actual clients. Although your training is based on a client's needs, you don't know who that client is until the interview process is supposed to happen. Also, those interviews may never come; because of the ongoing tech recession several clients have pulled out from Revature. This is especially egregious because Revature tries to pressure us, the associates, into relocating to where their clients are. When one of those clients left, several other associates had already taken leases out on apartments that they then had to break. You can guess as to whether Revature decided to help them with that afterwards. You'll get bare-minimum pay, bare-minimum holidays and zero PTO. They will demand that you work nights and weekends to fulfill the tasks set forth in your very rushed training. Don't buy into their lie that they are a great way to break into the field of tech; all I've seen is people getting screwed badly enough that they'll never want to work tech after Revature.

1.0
Jun 28, 2022

Don’t waste your time.

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Pros

The people in the cohort were nice and friendly.

Cons

First off you will be treated like a child. I feel bad for fresh college kids who don’t understand there worth by doing this program. They will pay you minimum wage which is not livable during training. The instructor I got was a hard grader. He didn’t want to see anyone succeed and would actively try to challenge people to the break. If you’re like me then you will bring in class 8 hours a day and then spend your nights and weekends doing homework… that should be illegal! Generally when I’ve had a job in my past, your boss wants you to succeed. This is not the case. The 2nd week 5 people got dropped and one of them started crying. I ended up getting dropped half way thru and kept in contact with my roomates and only about a third of the class got hired. The instructor and weekly quiz guy are both laughable. I instantly got a job paying way more than the mere 50k this company offered. Did you know developers can easily make 6 figures 2-3 years out of college? Take your skills elsewhere, this is a company with predator tactics.

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