The Best Alternatives to Expensive Bootcamps [Part 3]
A collection of Indian Pay-When-You-Earn Bootcamps
This is the 3rd article in the 3 part-series by Suhas Motwani and me. Checkout Part -1 and Part -2 for coding bootcamps in the USA.
ISA(Income Share Agreement) based bootcamps are now gaining traction in India. Heard of them before? (Yeah, Twitter’s been gaga about it!) Don’t worry if you haven’t, this article’s got you covered.
To put it simply, an income-share agreement, or ISA, is a tuition financing model where students agree to pay a percentage of their salary to the coding bootcamp or ISA provider for a specific amount of time after completing their program and landing a job — rather than paying tuition up front.
Want to get into one? Here’s a list of few Indian Pay-When-You-Earn Bootcamps (we’re also coming up with a Part 5, that’ll cover what you need to do to get in, so stay tuned!)
[update: May, 21]
10X Academy
I recently came across this prominent bootcamp in ISA space. With a strong team (Ex-IIT, Ex-google/facebook/Adobe) they’re accepting students from all academic and socio economic backgrounds. 10X academy have a full-stack development curriculum with a focus on problem-solving using python, which is essential to get into any product companies. Post which, students will dive deep into JavaScript front-end and back-end frameworks. Towards the end of curriculum students will be building a capstone project which is a replica of what real-time projects at companies look like. With soft-skills training and dedicated placement support, students can expect salaries in the range of 5–20lpa.
Location: Hyderabad
Medium of Training: Online
Fee Structure: 3 modes of ISA, maximum payment capped at 2.75lacs+GST. Check website for details.
Program Length: 6 months
Courses: Full-Stack Development
Although 10X Academy started recently, they are already placing their students at companies like Flipkart, Zomato, McAfee and startups like KreditBee with salary ranging between 7–12lpa. This is a good indicator of the quality of their program.
AttainU
AttainU was founded by Divyam Goel, in late 2018. He’s earlier been with Google and Uber and is bring the valley perspective to India. Fresh batches start every month, so sign up soon!
Location: Online
Medium of Training: Online
Fee Structure: 15% of monthly salary for 3 years only if the graduate is making over 5lpa, total payment capped at 4lacs.
Program Length: 24 weeks(full-time).
Course: Full-stack web dev.
The program doesn’t require any coding background and the expected graduate’s salary is 9LPA.
AltCampus
AltCampus was founded by Prashant Abhishek an engineering dropout, who is into full-stack development from the last 5 years. Prashant calls it a code school than just a Bootcamp and yes, it does have a beautiful campus in the Himalayas. According to him, the environment is more like a college with fun-filled activities.
Location: Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh.
Fee Structure: 15% of the salary for 1 year, capped at 1.5 lakhs if the graduate is making more than 50k rupees per month.
Program Length: 6 months(full-time)
Course: Full-stack web dev.
- Average graduate’s salary is 7LPA so far.
Although you can join the program without any prior coding experience, it helps to have minimal coding background prior to joining AltCampus.
InterviewBit
Co-founded by two guys abhimanyu saxena and Anshuman Singh, Interviewbit has been a great resource for students from tier-2 engineering colleges to break into a software engineering in big tech companies. Their free curriculum has proved to be a great resource for many students for interview preparations. Recently(Apr 2019) they launched a part-time Bootcamp for final and pre-final year Engineering students.
Medium of training: Online
Fee structure: 17% of monthly salary for 2 years, capped at 3lakhs.
Program length: 6 months, part-time(8pm - 11pm)
Courses: Full-stack, Backend development.
Soon starting a batch for working professionals.
InterviewBit has justified its quality by placing its students in companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon with an average offer of 15LPA. The acceptance rate of InterviewBit is as low as 0.05%.
An entrance test will decide your acceptance to the program, the test consists of problem-solving questions. You need to have a decent background in Algorithms and Data Structures to be able to crack the test.
Microverse
Microverse is not based out of India, but unlike other valley based boot camps, has a presence and is live in India. It is an online Bootcamp with an office in the USA, was founded by Ariel Camus. They have a pre-course material that you can finish to get a hang of the basics of the tech that they dig deeper on in the course.
Medium of Training: Online.
Fee Structure: 15% of the monthly salary once a graduate starts making over $1k dollars per, capped at a total payment of $15k.
Course: Full-stack web dev.
Program Length: 6–8 months.
The program has 1–1 mentorship, pair programming, and career support which will help you get a job as a remote software engineer.
[update: December, 20]
Newton School
Newton School is an innovative online industry oriented computer science education founded by Nishant Chandra (IIT-Roorkee ’14, IIM-C ’17, Unacademy) and Siddharth Maheshwari (IIT-Roorkee ’14, InMobi, serial Entrepreneur) and is dedicated to transforming students into great full stack developers with a guaranteed job of 6–40 LPA in some of the best Product companies in India and abroad. Newton School has a very strong and rigorous focus on Data Structures and Algorithms. By the end of the course students have also completed multiple live web apps.
Location: Bangalore
Medium of Training: Online
Fee Structure: upfront 0 fees, 15% of monthly salary for 3 years only if the candidate has a package of 6LPA and above, total payment capped at 3lacs.
Program Length: 5 months
Courses: Full-Stack Development
GeekSkool
GeekSkool was founded by Santosh Rajan who has over 32 years of programming expertise. (YES!)
The Bootcamp doesn’t charge you anything up-front, and it has partnered with some of the good startups in Bangalore. The website doesn’t include any information about the fee structure, but a graduate can easily expect a salary of over 6LPA.
Program Length: 3 months(full-time).
Location: Bangalore.
Course: Web Development.
Prior coding experience is necessary.
MountBlue
MountBlue works slightly different than the above-listed Bootcamps. It has a contract period of one year after graduation. A graduate will be working in a high-growth start-up referred by the Mountblue. The perks of working at Mountblue is that you’ll be paid a living stipend during the course of training.
Location: Bangalore
Fee Structure: As a contractor, MountBlue takes a stakeout from the salary given by the start-up where the graduate is working for 1 year and pays you a salary of 3.5–4LPA.
Training Period: 10 weeks(full-time).
Course: Full-stack web dev
Masai School
Masai tracks train you for high paying, long lasting, in-demand careers.
Location: Bangalore
Fee Structure 15% of salary for 3 years only if you make more than ₹600,000
Training Period: 20 Weeks Full-Time Course — Mon to Friday, 9 am to 6 pm
Course: Two Tracks: i) Full stack web and Computer Science Program, ii) Android Development and Computer Science Program
Pesto.tech
Pesto was founded by two guys - Ayush Jaiswal, an entrepreneur in residence from Delhi, and Andrew Linfoot, a freelance software engineer and an entrepreneur. Both discussed the opportunity of placing the Indian engineers in Silicon Valley startups as remote engineers and started their first batch in August 2018.
Location: Delhi
Fee Structure: 17% of graduate’s salary for 3 years, capped at 20lakhs, only if they’re making over 15 LPA.
Course: Full-stack web development.
Program Length: 12 weeks (9pm- 6am)
- After confirmation, a deposit(refundable) amount of 10k rupees, has to be paid for confirmation.
- Ideal for students with about a year of experience in web development.
- Pesto has had huge success in terms of placement so far, with an average salary of 30LPA.
Others:
Bridge-academy has a part-time fellowship program in Blockchain development for 12 weeks. After graduation, you should pay an amount of 15% from your salary until you pay a total amount of $9k.
Finally, any Bootcamps would expect you to work really hard. With ISAs Bootcamps are responsible for your jobs, otherwise, they’ll run out of business. It’s hard to survive some intensive Bootcamps, but if you make through it, you’ll have a high reward which pays off your hard work.
Feel free to get in touch with us in case we could help you choose the right one :)
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