Success stories
This is Ruslan's story. Ruslan worked in the oil industry in Ufa, Russia but dropped everything to move to the US. He repaired household appliances and drove trucks, then he learned Java to become a programmer.
On this page we have collected honest feedback about Hexslet - not only positive feedback, but also from those who were unsuccessful in their studies. You can also read success stories from our students and graduates
February 07, 2023
After 10 months of training on the Hexlet platform, I want to share my impressions. Firstly, the educational process is built very conveniently. Sign up and start learning. You can take the course at a pace that is comfortable for you, without chasing other students. There is a convenient scale where you can see if you are behind the recommended schedule or overtaking. Secondly, the theoretical part is presented in a very accessible way. I, as an absolute beginner in programming, slowed down only on really difficult topics. Fortunately, you can always ask for help from a mentor or other students. We smoothly moved on to the third part - feedback. Slack and Telegram chats are a great help in learning. This is especially true for projects: I simply find many answers to my questions in discussions. And if you didn’t succeed, you can always ask the mentor. Let me summarize. I had no idea that programming is actually very exciting. It is especially pleasant to realize that so much new information can be mastered in such a short period of time. Previously, when I heard the words ""deploy"", ""workflow"", ""framework"", I would have thought: ""Something in the bird's language."" And now I can speak it myself. Isn't it great?"
January 30, 2023
Self-learning is not easy at all. You have to set your own plan, organize materials and explain all new stuff to yourself every day. Sometimes it comes down to spending a lot of time on searching, and then watching many lectures and reading articles from different sources on/about the same topic. With Hexlet, you don't need to do all of that, because they provide very well structured programs of a high quality.
They are the best! They give updated materials and keep up with technologies, which is not so common. I feel so lucky that I started the Hexlet program ""Frontend Development"". And I see huge progress. Most importantly, with Hexlet I learned fundemental programming skills, which will stay on-demand for a life, and are relevant in any programming language. This is really precious! Hexlet gets you so close to the tough reality that waits for you at work. This makes their lessons not so easy, and studying with Hexlet requires all of your attention and diligence. My brain was boiling! You won't see an OOP explanation with ""house and animal"" analogy, for example. Instead you will learn OOP in relation to real cases from what you will have to deal with at work (like using OOP for configuration.) The Hexlet community is very strong, friendly and awesome! I could ask questions if I was feeling like I was stuck. Here, Hexlet provides its graduates with open-source projects to get experience. Mentors generously share their best practices with you. Getting your project to work is not enough. Your mentor will require you to refactor it until the code is clean and simple. Don't expect ready 'how to do' answers from a mentor. Mentors tell you what to improve and give you a chance to do it on your own. I would definitely rate Hexlet a 5/5!
January 30, 2023
Hi, I’m Asya and I’d like to share my experience while educating in Hexlet School.
About me: Master of Economics, specialist in Valoration of Business. I used to work as an accountant for 2 years. I’d like to start with the beginning.
It was the pandemic year when I decided to learn how to code a bit. I worked in a small company and I didn’t have any plans in spite of being adult. Of course I had elected Python, cause it seemed pretty and easy to start with. But unfortunately I made a wrong decision while choosing a coding school – it was popular among economists, so I considered it as a real feature. After five months of learning, I lost my money, because it was better to stop. I didn’t get any feedback about quality of my homework. Moreover, when I tried to help someone in Students society I received really rude critics.
So my enthusiasm slightly evaporated. But in October 21 I decided to try again but now I chose what I really wanted to study - Frontend. I’m not going to be a professional developer yet, but it was a desire to fill in the gaps in my education shortage, which made a barrier to enter IT-branch. That time I was extremely attentive and coping with lots of noisy advertisement, I discovered Hexlet – a school, which obviously wasn’t as popular as their rivals, but with a stable rate, with no “oh my god, it’s the best!” reviews and with very constructive feedback from ex-students. Of course I had some doubts, but after testing free version, I understood that I like this lesson structure and style. After purchasing the course I received a lot of support from my mentor, society and administrators. I felt the difference between this type of education and the previous one. I never was alone during this hard studying.
To be honest, I have some topics to work on and my next step will be to repeat all the problem material. I found my first IT-job during the course, so it was challenging. A month ago I received a well-paid offer as a System Analyst in Frontend. And I don’t exclude an option that I would continue my career as a developer.
I also have some advice on topic what I would like to join on Hexlet. I really want to deep into UI/UX design, so I’m waiting for a course. Also it’ll be cool to have a high-level review of technologies and stack: Kafka, Mongo, Figma, Postman, Swagger. Cause when you join a team, you see all these stuff and it takes time to immerse. Maybe, I would like to see small technical English chapter, or Deutsch.
I’m so exited about all this time together, and I definitely recommend this course.) Moreover, I’m going to buy a subscription just in order to stay informed and to discover new areas.
January 28, 2023
The story of how I came to Hexlet...
I've long been subscribed to the Telegram channel ""Hexlet"" and always with great pleasure read their notes, written in simple language with funny drawings and causing interest in new technologies or stacks. I did my own frontend development, because nowadays it's really possible to learn for free with numerous courses on YouTube and tutorials on the web. However, I always felt that there were plenty of gaps, and here and there, various speakers ""pulled a surprise out of the box"" in the form of an obscure term or a way to write JS code. Long live the ""100500 first"" way of declaring the function ))) At some point, I realized that I wanted to start all over again and ""unpack"" all the accumulated knowledge. To solve this problem I need not just a ""fancy"" blogger, but a fundamental course, and it should be modern (you can't keep up with technology) and easy to learn.
Looking through the newsfeed in my messenger, I came across an offer to register on the ""Hexlet"" platform and try their training format, and it is completely free to try all the functionality, get access to theory, questions and practical exercises on the passed material. Having started training from scratch, I was so carried away that I realized it was worth it! I bought the Profession and it was my best New Year's gift, which will not just leave wrappers, but a gift that will open a new chapter in my life. Now, I know that for sure!
What are the advantages in the acquisition of the Profession: the most important is the assistance of a mentor, it is an experienced practicing programmer, who is assigned to each student, and when solving any practical problem you can ask him through Slack (messenger) for help or clarification of complex moments. In the training projects (of which there are only 4 during the course), the mentor's guidance gives you an understanding of what ""real refactoring"" means, not just ""work"", but the code has the right structure, in which you can scale the project and maintain it conveniently, and this is very important, because the code we write first of all for the person, who, probably, will be your colleague at work in the future.
What's the bottom line? For me personally, Hexlet is a team of super professionals who are able to support you in your most difficult moment. You will never be left alone with your problems and questions, and this is very important! Here you can trust those who are just doing their job and putting their heart and soul into the process. You make us stronger and we make you better!
With sincere respect, Denis Loza.
January 27, 2023
Hi, my name is Rinat. I'm 30 years old and while I work as a project manager in a web studio. But I'm already finishing training as a Frontend developer at Hexlet online-school of programming, and I'm planning to work as a developer in my company since the new year. My impressions from studying at Hexlet are a delight. I study in the group with tutor and it enables me to master new material. The tutor gives detailed code-reviews of the projects, and also helps to do practical exercises in case of difficulties. I can recommend this format of training to all beginners who want to learn programming from scratch or have a little background in this area. Studying Hexlet is hard, but very interesting and effective. With each exercise and with each project, you feel how your hard skills improve. And communication with your mentor, supervisor, and other Hexlet staff and students pumps up your soft-skills. For any general training questions, you can contact your mentor. For employment questions, contact the Career Track Specialist. For internships and open-sourcing, contact a specialist in that area.
At Hexlet you won't be left alone with any question or problem, everything contributes to your development.