Hyperion Dev - is it a good move?

[Gotenks]

I've been seriously looking at options like this vs those you find on educational training websites like Udemy and honestly you're way better off going through Udemy. I'll just do the comparison for their full stack web and software development where I know someone who was on it vs a Web Development course I'm currently doing on Udemy (I've done others and the comments would be similar)

Cost: R70 000 upfront on Hyperion Dev for their full stack web and software development. Udemy very regularly has sales where you can pick up all courses for around R200 (don't pay more than that, just wait a few weeks of a sale). I am currently doing the one at https://www.udemy.com/share/101W9CBUAZcldWRnw=/
That provides around 65 hours of training just for web development. You can then find another course on Software development for another R200 and in total you've paid R400 vs R70 000

Quality: Just do the trial for Hyperion Dev and you'll see all their teaching is done through the PDF's. I've seen some training from the actual course and the teaching is also through PDF - not sure if there are videos elsewhere in the course but I've only seen PDF's. Udemy courses are usually videos from skilled instructors who run the same content at in person bootcamps usually in the States for really high fees and with incredible employment records. The courses I've done at Udemy have had really brilliant instructors with videos on the entire process

Support: I think this is one of the things Hyperion Dev uses as a big plus on their platform because they allow I believe 8 calls with a mentor a month to speak over issues. However with Udemy the courses usually have really good support where questions are answered quite quickly and you can also see questions from others. The Udemy courses also have Facebook and Discord groups for people to ask for help where the help I've seen has been really great and they are more than happy to answer basic or wider questions

Refund: Here I haven't asked for one on Udemy yet but I believe they offer full 30 day money back guarantees. They should also be helpful with any issues after that. Although Hyperion Dev does offer a trial, that is for the most basic concepts and you can't actually see their full course outline until you start. Hyperion Dev honestly has one of the worst refund policies I have ever seen which you can check out in https://www.hyperiondev.com/legal/
From the looks of it, if you decide just a week after starting what could be a whole year course you will only get back 65% of your money and lose a further 15% cancellation fee.

Job guarantee: Here I don't know enough about Hyperion Dev's job placement rate and partnerships but when I did see their career platform for students there didn't seem many options available. I doubt any company will hire you just because you did your training through them vs Udemy. The companies will want to see your actual github or portfolio. With Udemy courses you generally end up having done a few projects which you can use.

As an aside just entering your details on the Hyperion Dev site will lead to a crazy amount of calls and emails as already mentioned on this thread

 

[jambai]

How good and experienced are the mentors at Hyperion ?
Is the course content the same as a say Udemy course so what’s the real advantage of Hyperion dev

 

[RobynLindsay]

How good and experienced are the mentors at Hyperion ?
Is the course content the same as a say Udemy course so what’s the real advantage of Hyperion dev

There is no advantage. I have just gone through their full stack web dev course and it is atrocious. Basically a scam. I received very little to no support, found myself studying from codeacademy & freecodecamp on the side just to understand most concepts, as they are so poorly explained in the measly pdf’s you are given for your money, if they are explained at all. Don’t waste your time. They also don’t offer refunds so once you sign up you’re screwed. RUN.

 

[Lucas Buck]

Harvard university has the lectures for their introductory computer science course cs50 on youtube and it's free. Why not go through those lectures and make a decision afterwards about where you would like to get your degree or certification.

 

[slimeball]

Look the reality is that Hyperiondev, like all educational institutions, are in the business of making money. As a reward for paying ~R40k for a software development course (which I find quite steep) they give you a series of tasks to complete and at the end, a PDF document with your name on it proving you could complete their tasks.

Now the question is whether that piece of paper is worth the ~R40k. What can ~R40k get you you ask? Well a year worth of university and if you do well enough at uni you could potentially get a scholarship to pay the remainder of your studies.

ALL and I mean ALL of the linkedin profiles I see with hyperiondev listed as education list their GPA's as 99%, 98%, etc and 1'st or 2'nd in their class (this information can be found on their portfolio link which is public). What's very strange is that the job obtained after completing their bootcamp varies widely. Some are working as devs another I saw is a bus driver.

What's even stranger is that certain 'blank' portfolios with a 0% GPA have high class rankings which I can't explain, I'm assuming they did other courses through hyperiondev and so it's the cumulative class ranking or something like that? Also the class rankings are against total number of students ENROLLED not those that completed, so it artificially inflates your class ranking to make it look better.

To me a certification just means you managed to memorise some information and were able to apply the knowledge at that particular point in time. Thing is everyone tends to forget what they were taught and most importantly: technologies change. So because of those facts alone, I would say a certificate only holds weight for a couple (say 5-6) of months which is why it is important to enter the software industry as early as possible after getting your pdf. That's the thing, a certificate looses value over time whereas a degree does not.

Also everyone loves to jump on the CS bandwagon but I would encourage looking into doing an electrical/computer engineering degree if possible, it's an extra year and you will be exposed to circuit design that could be valuable if you are interested in the hardware side of things. In an ECE stream you can do most CS courses over the duration of your degree.