Don't waste your money
I am a former student of 4Geeks Academy, Full Stack Developer (2023). I don’t gain anything by writing this, on the contrary: I risk the academy trying to take action against me, but I honestly feel scammed. If with this review I can help even one person avoid wasting the €5,000 that I threw away, I will consider it worth it.Let me start with the ending: this course is absolutely useless for getting a job. In my class we were 15 students and, more than a year later, only 2 found jobs… and only because they were already programmers before joining. The 4Geeks certificate doesn’t open any doors: companies don’t care about it. The only thing that matters is having a solid portfolio (which you don’t build here, except for the final project).The most disgraceful part is the false advertising: they promise immediate job opportunities and high salaries, sometimes even before finishing. But when you graduate, suddenly “it all depends on you”: on the thousands of extra hours you put into building a portfolio and accepting months of unpaid internships (some even paid-for). And if you don’t do it, they blame you and wash their hands. Who pays the bills in the meantime? Why don’t they tell you this before charging €5,000? They talk about a “unique method: learning by doing,” which is absolute nonsense, and about becoming a full stack developer in 4 months with barely 100 teaching hours… impossible. In the end you scratch the surface of several languages and master none.Let me stress this: the average salary in Spain is €1,500 per month. It takes at least two years of saving for a person to gather €5,000. To invest that effort and hope in a course that is absolutely worthless is devastating. That’s why I find it outrageous that they play with people’s expectations.In summary: this course is pure smoke. Marketing is the only brilliant thing they have — and they do it very well. If you really want to learn, pick one or two languages, invest your time in free tutorials, online communities or even ChatGPT, which teaches more and costs €20 a month (it explains code amazingly). And give it several months of consistent work. Everything is already on the web. Don’t waste your savings.P.S.: Reviews can be bought…