Hack Reactor

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Hack Reactor is one of the top coding bootcamps and we select high-potential students through a rigorous admissions process. In our software engineering bootcamp, we train students through over 800 hours of Computer Science and JavaScript curriculum that closely models the software engineering industry. Our bootcamp is focused on building autonomous software engineers ready for any job in the tech industry.

Our new Professional Development courses allow seasoned software engineers and developers to become better coders with short courses that blend computer science theory and practical programming practices. We offer Professional Development courses on Microservices + Orchestration, Methodologies + Requirements Gathering, Algorithms + Data Structures, and much more!

Led by passionate and experienced teachers, engineering leaders, and former hiring managers, we produce software engineers the best teams want to hire. We offer our immersive bootcamp programs at Galvanize campuses in Austin, Boulder, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, and live online.

We have over 6,000 software engineering alumni who work at top tech companies like Amazon, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Salesforce, and other top tech companies around the world.

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Aug 31, 2021	10 African tech experts putting Africa on the world map	Share this article: Africans are often poorly mentioned in the media, but there’s so much more to Africans than the negative stereotype often put forward. They have consistently contributed to the growth and development of society, and to c...
Apr 27, 2021	From classroom to coding bootcamp: A scholarship win will help Maryland kindergarten teacher Charnelle Evans pursue a tech career	After seven years of teaching elementary school, Charnelle Evans wanted to pursue a career in tech. But she wasn’t sure how to break in until an episode of the Teacher Career Coach podcast with a teacher-turned software engineer introduced ...
Feb 4, 2020	300,000 new developer jobs in US in next decade	The demand for software developers continues to grow. The US is expected to add nearly 300,000 new software developer jobs in the next 10 years, according to HackerRank’s Developer Skills report released on Tuesday. Additionally, job seeker...
Sep 8, 2019	How Pandora built a successful apprenticeship program	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! In early 2018, Pandora was in a position many tec...
Sep 8, 2019	How Pandora built a successful apprenticeship program	In early 2018, Pandora was in a position many tech companies are facing today. The business was growing quickly, but we couldn’t hire quickly enough to fill all of our open technical roles. We had a robust university recruiting pipeline and...
Jan 23, 2019	Hola Code tackles the real migration crisis	Tamara Davison Contributor Share on Twitter Tamara Davison is a British journalist reporting from Mexico. She has written for The i Newspaper and Entrepreneur as well as many regional newspapers worldwide, and she is the current editor of A...
Jul 20, 2018	Term Sheet — Friday, July 20	UBER → DOORDASH Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Paid Content You can't secure what you can't see From ExtraHop Adarkar previously led Uber’s Global Finance team of more than 500 employees. Note that Uber hasn’t had a CFO since 2015, so Ad...
Apr 14, 2017	How to Find Great Co-Founders for Your Startup -- Fast	April 14, 2017 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You have a killer startup idea. You want a team to help make it a reality. But, you don’t have the money to hire anybody -- yet. If only you could find...
Feb 20, 2017	Lumina Foundation Gives Odds For Edtech Innovation Under Trump	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints [Corrected 2/22/17, 9:35 am. See below.] Bipartisanship hasn’t exactly been the watchword in Washington over the past month as the new Trump administration grapples with stall...
Jul 13, 2016	Why a new cybersecurity bootcamp chose DC as its launch city	There are over 209,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. alone according to a Peninsula Press analysis from 2015, and demand is quickly growing. There just aren’t enough people trained to take the gigs. Bill Shelton knows why, in a ve...
Mar 5, 2016	3 signs you’ll soon be attending a coding bootcamp at your college	Drew Sing Contributor Drew Sing is a consultant focused on the edtech space. It all started as an alternative to the traditional college education. Now they’ve caught the eyes of deans across the country. Coding bootcamps have been a trendi...
Jan 30, 2016	Telegraph Academy Bootcamp Teaches People Of Color How To Code	Where are all the people of color in engineering roles at tech companies? Berkeley, Calif.-based coding bootcamp Telegraph Academy, which plans to relocate to Oakland in the next few months, wants to make it so that the tech industry has no...
Oct 1, 2015	New VC-Backed School Joins Ranks of SF’s Indie Coding Skills Shops	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints San Francisco hosts so many freestanding computer programming schools and code bootcamps now that it’s hard to keep track of them all. But make room for another one. A trio of...
Aug 4, 2015	Max Levchin’s Affirm wants to finance your way through Hack Reactor’s code school	PayPal co-creator Max Levchin brought you Affirm, a money lending service. Now, the company wants to help programmers-to-be pay for “‘the Harvard’ of coding bootcamps.” Starting today, Affirm will offer financing for Hack Reactor students, ...
Mar 12, 2015	Wyncode Joins NESTA Launch in Support of White House Tech Hire Initiative	Wyncode joins nationwide tech education companies to announce the creation of a new trade organization with the mission to establish best practices and create accountability for coding schools. The Miami-based coding school joins App Academ...
Feb 18, 2015	The Top 33 Coding Bootcamps	Last night, Switchup released a list of the top coding bootcamps around the world in 2014. The list takes into account factors like reviews on the Switchup platform, price, location, and job support. You’ll also find helpful information the...
Jan 22, 2015	Hack Reactor Buys MakerSquare in Austin	Hack Reactor, a computer programming bootcamp, announced this week it has bought MakerSquare, a two-year old coding school with campuses in Austin and San Francisco.
Jan 21, 2015	Coding Bootcamp Hack Reactor Acquires MakerSquare	Today, San Francisco-based Hack Reactor announced their acquisition of Austin’s MakerSquare, their first deal in a plan to develop a network of coding bootcamps. MakerSquare, which also has a campus in San Francisco, will stay independent a...
Dec 16, 2014	A Wave Crests: Silicon Valley, Postsecondary Education And A Half-Trillion Dollars	Shawn Drost Contributor Editor’s note: Shawn Drost is co-founder of Hack Reactor. It’s easy to forget that these are early days for the Internet. We still have different ideas on what it is or how it should work. The web is governed by an i...
Aug 20, 2014	Startup Institute Alumni Raise $400K to Help Others Afford Alternative Learning	When Sebastian Fung enrolled in the Startup Institute, he had dreams of starting his own company. He left his comfortable finance job at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and moved from Toronto, Canada, to Boston in hopes of finding a co-founder — a ...
Aug 19, 2014	Startup raises $400k for providing hard-to-get loans to software bootcampers	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! “Bootcamp” schools for teaching programming are r...
Aug 19, 2014	Startup raises $400k for providing hard-to-get loans to software bootcampers	“Bootcamp” schools for teaching programming are receiving billing as career boosters for all kinds of people, but they come with a startling variable — tuition ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 for 12 weeks. Now, a new startup is hoping to co...
Jun 26, 2014	Hacking the hacker school: How the bootcamp is being taken to scale outside the coding world	Coding bootcamps have proven their value to the students, operators, and employers. Despite their steep cost, generally about $1,000 per week in tuition, schools can’t find enough instructors and expand quickly enough to meet demand. Those ...
Jun 16, 2014	Hack Reactor is launching an online coding bootcamp, but you still need to quit life to do it	Coding bootcamps. So far, attending one has meant either having a good one in your city or temporary moving to a different city to attend one, with all the logistics and expenses that come with that. San Francisco-based Hack Reactor is look...
Feb 10, 2014	California’s hacker bootcamps prepare for a long regulation process (exclusive)	The Internet was up in arms late last month when VentureBeat broke the news that a little-known regulator intended to crack down on California’s hacker bootcamps. Initially, it seemed irresponsible and short-sighted that these schools (with...
Feb 5, 2014	Handcuffs For Hacker Schools? Why A “Code Of Conduct” For Coding Bootcamps Could Actually Be Good For The Ecosystem	The explosion in both online and offline programming platforms over the last year has made one thing clear: Learning to code is hot. (With two “t’s.”) Well, that and the fact that our traditional education system doesn’t seem to be pulling ...
Jan 30, 2014	California bootcamp will work with regulator: ‘Whatever the cost — it’s worth it to satisfy the state’ (interview)	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! VentureBeat reported yesterday that a little-know...
Jan 30, 2014	California bootcamp will work with regulator: ‘Whatever the cost — it’s worth it to satisfy the state’ (interview)	VentureBeat reported yesterday that a little-known California regulatory agency called Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) sent cease-and-desist letters to at least eight learn-to-code bootcamps. According to my sources, these...
Jan 29, 2014	California regulator seeks to shut down ‘learn to code’ bootcamps	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! A handful of California coding bootcamps are figh...
Jan 29, 2014	California regulator seeks to shut down ‘learn to code’ bootcamps	A handful of California coding bootcamps are fighting for survival after receiving a stern warning from regulators, VentureBeat has learned. Unless they comply, these organizations face imminent closure and a hefty $50,000 fine. These organ...
Sep 2, 2013	Inside Hack Reactor, The Coding Bootcamp That Wants To Be The CS Degree Of The Future	At the same time that unemployment and low wages continue to plague the larger U.S. economy, Silicon Valley and the rest of the tech industry is having a hiring crisis — many tech companies just can’t seem to find enough people with the cod...
Aug 28, 2013	The developer’s guide to interviewing	Larry Davis is a computer scientist from Adobe and an instructor at Hack Reactor, a San Francisco coding academy. Tech interviews aren’t easy. If you walk in unprepared, an interview can feel like a battery of convoluted questions and obscu...
Jul 17, 2013	Reddit Insight Is An Awesome Hack That Reveals How The Internet’s ‘Front Page’ Really Works	Anyone who has had their website get some traction on Reddit knows that it truly lives up to its “front page of the Internet” label — the kind of traffic the site drives can be remarkable. But the process by which a link takes off on the si...

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FAQ about Hack Reactor

When was Hack Reactor founded?

Hack Reactor was founded in 2012.

What has the press written about Hack Reactor?

Parsers VC has collected 34 articles mentioning Hack Reactor, among them “10 African tech experts putting Africa on the world map” (Aug 31, 2021) and “From classroom to coding bootcamp: A scholarship win will help Maryland kindergarten teacher Charnelle Evans pursue a tech career” (Apr 27, 2021).

Is Hack Reactor still active?

Yes, Hack Reactor is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 14, 2021.