quickstart.com Reviews 

This experience was horrible to say the least. The class meetings consumed of wstching slideshow presentations. When i decided to withdraw from program. I was emailed that monthly installments with be frozen and i would not be charged going further. Yet i have been charged 3 times after that. 2 times being within the same weekend. When i called up to see why. They did not have a valid answer and got transferred aroung multiple people. Then was informed finance department will get back to me within 15-20 mins. They did not call me back, 4 hours later i reached out and finally got someone on financing. By that time i had cancelled my credit card and got a new one. Horrible customwr service. Dont go with this company. I would not recommend this to my worst enemies. The company that handles the online schooling is called Quickstart. If any online courses is associated with them do not use it.

I agree with Nathan as I was also in the same Data Science cohort with him. I enrolled through Wagner College and since the Bootcamp was completely online, we were all grouped together. Fresh out of college with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and not knowing what career I wanted to pursue with my new degree; after weighing my options, I decided to enroll in this Bootcamp through my school to obtain the skills necessary for a chance in data science. The biggest selling point for me was their “job guarantee in the first six months after completion of the program or your money back” promise. This turned out to be completely bogus as they tried to lie over and over again every time we requested for career services.
It’s also worth noting that QuickStart likes to hide behind the reputation of their school partners by making their ads look like the Bootcamp are offered by the school themselves. In fact, besides putting their names on the ads, the schools were never involved with any part of the training until the administrators were notified by us students about Quickstart’s shady business. In fact, I don’t believe the school even knows the garbage contents that Quickstart used to train their student. This is a HUGE flaw in the academic system in my opinion. With all the decorated reputation from established schools and a big job guaranteed promise, I enrolled in the program thinking it would help get my foot in the door, only to realize that I have wasted 6 months of my times and not gain any skills valuable for data science. Heck, not even for data analyst jobs. Six months in this so called training yet, I am still trying to teach myself basic SQL, analytics, and coding skills for the field! I feel that I’ve been totally scammed. Though the tuition was fully refunded after we, students, fought many hard a** battles with Quickstart, I still had spent $600 on a computer for the class and another $300 for Microsoft certifications which, were not mentioned anywhere in the contract for when we signed up.
My advice for anyone thinking about enrolling in any programs provided by Quickstart, is try to learn the skills on your own through books, YouTube videos, or learning websites such as Udacity or Udemy, create a portfolio showcasing projects created from these skills learned (preferably on GitHub), and save yourself the time and money of dealing with QuickStart in your future IT learning. Also, I don’t doubt for one bit that all their 5-stars reviews on here were written by their trolls.

P.S. I was not able to comment a review on their facebook page so it is assumed that they aren't allowing people like us with bad experiences continue to post them about their company!

This comapany is really bad. Very slow system. How can an IT company offer online courses yet they cannot fix their own. Such a rubbish company. Do not purchase anything. You will just waste your money.

I registered for a yearly subscription to access their library of courses after attending a webinar. Their overall process was not very clear in terms of accessing the account but after several attempts of trying to get support, my account was activated. After couple of week, my account was charged again for the same amount. Which is their annual fees. I was able to contact the account manager and was able to take care of it. However, at that time I was still trying to schedule my training hours so I can go through their content. Once I started accessing the content, I found their instructor delivering very mediocre and in some topics, incorrect concepts and provide misleading information. For CISSP certification, you want to make sure you get the information from someone experienced or knowledgeable. I found Quickstart to be either an organization with no quality checks or very lousy training platform. They run with different names, Infosecacademy and Quickstart. I advice anyone looking for training to stay away from these people. I really hope they improve but any feedback I have provided them have fallen into deaf ears.

Update: After contacting the founder on LinkedIn and reaching out several times (3) to the email addresses on QuickStart, I was able to get a message back from their Product Line Lead and he listened to my queries and was able to address most of it. While it will probably take them many iterations to get the training content correct and easy to understand. I will probably check them out again in the near future.

I like their yearly subscription model, it's one of the best available in market. I would love to recommend Quickstart to anyone who is interested IT Training.