Get a job in 3 months?

Totally attainable. How bad do you want this? Take every course you can take.

Anything is possible, you have to be hungry enough.

Just to be clear, I wasn't referring to my own will to learn as being the matter preventing me from landing a job. More-so the actual content of the site. I understand "anything is possible..." I was really just wanting to know if the material presented to us is enough GIVEN that we are in fact "hungry enough".

To answer that question: nope! Treehouse is an incredibly cool place to learn. I love it here. I also enjoy learning at codeschool.com, codecademy.com, lynda.com, and I do a million Google searches a day it seems, with most of those landing me at stackoverflow.com. I have to take about 3-5 courses from different sources on a subject before I deeply understand it.

In a few years Treehouse might be a one-stop-shop where you can learn everything without leaving the site, it's on the right track!

Well just check the computer's science courses and compare it with Treehouse. By the way completely agree with @Charles Shores

I just wanted to chime in and agree that it is totally possible in any of the tracks we offer, depending on the student's focus and goals. A well-rounded education means that you would never use just one resource anyhow, but Treehouse can be that main resource that guides you through your learning. We would be failing as teachers if we didn't encourage you to find additional information and inspiration elsewhere or teach you how to find help elsewhere if you can't get it here.

I think that's very comparable to any learning institution. My own college experience involved quite a lot of self-learning through online resource, books, and peers. What Treehouse offers over a college curriculum at this point is a focus on technology you'll actually use and a way better cost. We still have a lot of room for growth that we all want to see as soon as possible, but yes, at this point, we have enough material to back up Ryan's claim, and hopefully we'll have even more success stories to share soon.

Thanks everyone for chiming in! @Michael, we really appreciate feedback from our students, so keep us posted as you work through Learning Adventures!

From what I've seen, I think the claim is ridiculous. I think Treehouse is a good resource, and I've been using it for about 3 months along with other resources, but if Treehouse can get you ready for a career in 3 months, I'm definitely doing something wrong. I definitely don't think completing a couple of learning adventures is enough to get anyone hired.

I'm personally trying to focus on Wordpress site design and development, so I've done all the html and css courses, and I'm working on PHP now, along with any Wordpress specific courses, and I'm constantly building Wordpress sites for myself and my friends and family. I am hungry for knowledge, and I've been spending an excessive amount of time in front of the computer. I'm getting better and gaining confidence with help from Treehouse, but at this point, but I certainly don't feel as if I'm ready to go out and start applying for jobs.

I really think Treehouse needs to focus more on career tracks, because frankly, most of the stuff I've learned here, I could've taught myself for free using internet tutorials, but I'm willing to give Treehouse a few more months to prove their value to me. I signed up for Treehouse, because I too saw the advertisements talking about getting a job in 6 months, but I feel that without any type of career guidance, and/or a personalized career track, I'm not any further ahead than I would be using Google every time I'm stumped. What I'm lacking isn't hunger, or access to information. The internet is loaded with free tutorials for css, html, php, wordpress... What I need is someone with the knowledge to help filter through this wealth of information, so I could use my time and energy more efficiently, and learning things that are going to help me find a career.

I think that people also tend to be misguided about the skill level necessary for an entry level job in tech. If you can code a WordPress site then you're ahead of a lot of people. Sure it's great to know everything that goes into building a website - frontend, backend, design and so on, but the reality is that at an entry level job you won't be doing all of it on on your own. There are cases where you might be, but that's not the norm.

We host Treehouse networking events once in a while, and I've met quite a few people who've told me that they've taken our HTML, CSS, WordPress and PHP courses and now have jobs in tech, where a couple months ago they had no knowledge of programming. So yes, it is possible. It all depends on what kind of job you are aiming for.

I don't think I can code a Wordpress site. I can use developer tools to see the css and manipulate that, or I can cut and paste php if someone tells me where, but I can't build themes or plugins. I think you make a good point that people are misguided about the skill level necessary for an entry level job in tech. I wouldn't even call myself misguided. I'm simply ignorant. I have no idea. When I signed on with Treehouse, that's the type of information and guidance I was hoping to get. That's the type of service I really need from Treehouse. How can I best use Treehouse to find a job in 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or whatever. Without career guidance, I don't think I'm getting my money's worth, especially considering the grand claims Mr. Carson is making in his advertisements.

@Martin if you are looking for "career guidance, and/or a personalized career track" why not ask for some help with that in a separate thread. I'm sure a few students and staff would be glad to help you. After all when you succeed, Treehouse also succeeds. You might also want to find a mentor.

I used to be in that boat, looking for guidance in the world. When you really get down to it, that can only come from within.

I'm really not looking for guidance in this world. I'm trying to figure out the fastest way to develop enough tech skills to find an entry level job. This thread is about the ability of Treehouse to help us do that in three months, and I think it's important to voice my opinion on the issue, because I feel the claim is greatly exaggerated. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I would like to know the specifics surrounding the people making these claims. What badges did they earn? What kind of job did they get? How did they find it...? I think if Treehouse is going to advertise itself as an online school that can help you get a job in three months, they have a certain level of responsibility to show you how to make that a reality.

More power to you man, I hope you find those specifics out and that they help you. They aren't really important to me as I am absolutely sure that I am getting my money's worth here at Treehouse, based on the skills I have seen myself develop.

Just because a company has a goal doesn't mean they ever reach that point, but I feel it's great that they strive to reach that point in the first place.

Anyway, good luck, I'm gonna go code some Rails...

Wow, I definitely didn't expect this much interaction when I first posted my question! Thanks a lot for all of the opinions guys! I think I'm going to just find out!

I've decided to blog my journey from the beginning of May to the end of July to put the claim to the test :D At the end of July I'll start applying for entry level DEVELOPER jobs but continue learn at treehouse for 2 more months before making a decision :D

You guys heard it here first lol...I've never done anything like this before but I hear a blog is a good way to keep going/build a resume.

Anyways, thanks for all the advice, and I'll see you guys in a couple months!

Lots of good discussion in here! @Martin, our Learning Adventures are intended to guide you through our courses to learn the skills we offer in a suggested order. The goal is that you would be ready for an entry-level job that corresponds to the Learning Adventure you choose.

@Michael, that is an awesome idea! Let us know when you post stuff! Here's a recent article from one of our students on maximizing your time at Treehouse:

Learn to Code: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Treehouse account

@Liendo, where can I follow your blog?

@Martin and Treehouse Staff, Those points are actually quite valid, and something to bring up. Treehouse as a company, in my opinion, mirrors those of Martins. I truly believe Treehouse could benefit tremendously from some sort of career assistance, guidance, tracks that work in advertising, and would also work for customer loyalty. Always a good thing! Referrals! Definition!

Michael Liendo

Any update on your progress so far? :)

I'm interested to know, too!

I know I will. On the side of doing treehouse tutorials for html, css, javascript. I am learning ruby on rails on Youtube and will be getting into mobile app development in the future. You see it is an investment, and not only that but I would rather spend time learning something that will help me make income instead of getting a regular food or retail job just to get by. Hustle during summer time on tree house or anything you wanna do. Don't let people make you constantly just "chill" it will be well worth it in the end when your getting more dough in a year than they do working at mcdonalds for 3 years

I'm taking Treehouse as an alternative to General Assembly. I weighed up General Assembly and I realized that I am very much a independent, self learner, think its called a autodidact rather than someone who benefits that much from a classroom environment. Essential the huge price difference between an immersive or even part-time workshop and this is the on hand coach and also the project work you get on the back of it.

I think Treehouse could do with a kind of portfolio builder track but apart from that its fantastic value for money.

Remains to be seen if I'll get a entry position job out of it, but would at least like to be able to do some freelancing by the end of it.

You have to be ready to fail. I have been studying programming for 1 month. In that time I was payed to design 2 wordpress sites. Did I make enough to survive on. Nope :) but I made enough money to pay for a year of pro treehouse subscription. Just google freelance web design jobs and learn as you code. Be honest with your clients that you are new and don't ask for too much money! Do I think treehouse.com could help someone get a job in programming in 6 months? Yeah pretty easily. Google could do that. I used lynda.com last month and there are WAY more videos there, but treehouse seems a lot more organized and I like these videos better. I hope they continue to get better. Good luck.

My two-pennies worth. I don't yet have a job in tech, but I think I COULD get one anytime now. I applied for a couple recently after I showed my github and a couple of apps to a professional developer and he said he thinks I could get a Junior Rails Developer position.

The proof is in the pudding, as they say... no job yet, but I'm just going to keep going regardless. It seems inevitable to me that I will eventually get a job if I just keep studying and practicing.

I don't only use Treehouse, but it's the only website I'm subscribed to apart from RailsCasts (and I don't actually use that much).

Treehouse IS limited for Rails (I can only speak with any authority about Rails here), but it's still a great resource. That's why I'm still subscribed. Some of the materials are well-organised. I dip in and out of it now and always see something useful to use in my own projects... which leads me onto the most important point...

Always build your own stuff.

Finally, the only other point I can think to make right now is that I'm glad I started with Treehouse when I was at ground zero. At the time, I thought it was the only decent resource out there, so I stuck to the CSS Foundations course religiously (I still have almost the entire course in note form! GREAT reference material!). It provided me with a solid foundation for CSS that is still paying off now for the bits of CSS I do in my Rails projects.

I have been on Treehouse for just under a month. I am blowing through my track at the moment in hopes of getting a higher paying job. I majored in MIS 15 years ago and hated C++ and Advanced C++. I had terrible placement out of college and haven't worked in the tech industry yet. I've focused mainly on sales and marketing. Truth be told, I never thought I'd be able to figure out CSS or HTML since I really struggled with C++. I also felt I was too old for my brain to soak in more computer programming and my biggest regret is not giving this a shot years ago. That being said, Treehouse has finally given me some hope that I can make it in the industry. I feel I've learned more in the last month than I did in two years within my major at college. As I go through the lessons, I take extensive notes (constantly pausing) so that I can review the coursework later and have references in case I get stuck coding my own projects. My hope is to eventually become a UX designer as that really interests me. Some UX professionals tell me I really don't need to know how to code but I feel it will just give me that much more of an advantage. I am married with a child and I support everyone so I can't afford the cost or time of a UX bootcamp. I wouldn't feel I had a chance of succeeding without understanding all the principles behind the code. Treehouse is absolutely the best learning experience I've ever had (I hated school in general) and I know it will lead to good things down the road. My wife and daughter deserve a good life and the tech industry is the only place I will be able to provide it. All I can suggest is take as many courses as you can and I have no doubt if you work at it you will succeed and find a great job. Best of Luck to you all and thank you Treehouse for everything.

Wonderful stories. You can easily get an entry level job, as some said, but that means you won't be doing the heavy lifting, just assisting teams in coding efforts.

To get a leading job you'll have to dedicate more time - and find various resources - to build projects and get the skills necessary to be a great programmer. You cannot do this with Treehouse alone.

Another 2 year old question...@Michael, it would be interesting for some of us who are still starting and are plagued by the same question. What happened? Did you finally master coding, and how long did it take you before you thought you were proficient enough?

I think you can learn a ton from this site but you need to add to your skills. I've only been using Treehouse for about 2 1/2 months but I've learned way more than I did on my own. I'm enrolled in the Udacity course and Treehouse has helped me immensely with my understanding. I've also used Udemy and read a few books. Treehouse is my go to resource for learning something brand new. Am I ready for a job? Probably not. Reason being is that I don't have any deliverables. However, I'm working on them now. I'm planning on finishing the Udacity program sometime in January putting in 20-25 hours a week. After this I plan on leaving my job to study full time on developing projects, learning, Illustrator, Photoshop, PHP, and Wordpress. One the the craziest things I've ever done? This would be about 10-11 months. I'll have to let you know if I'll be job ready by then.

Great this has inspired me even more! I am currently putting in around 1 hour - 1.30 hours a day i am studying the front end web developer and i will then look to see what track i want to follow next. I tried with Lynda.com but i feel treehouse is 100 times better for learning, i can keep concentration easier, its a lot more fun and you get the code task and questionnaire at the end to re-enforce what you have learned.

My goal is to leave my current 9-5 job and have a freelance web design job and living in a different country (Preferably with sun all year round) by July this year!

I believe you can...you just have to be willing to put around 2-3 hours a day in if you want to be knowledgable by then, i'm going to be taking the tech degree course in the next week, and then i will progress on to maybe more back-end development and then design

Just to followup with this post and everyone that has posted in the past 3 years! I recently updated this post here: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/my-blog-post-on-my-recent-interview-for-a-webdeveloper-position I will say that I had to take some time off because at the time I didn't feel that there was a way for me to learn the necessary skills with the then current roadmap. Whether or not that was true at the time is debatable, the fact is that I lost interest. Fast forward to today's content and road map and it's a hands down, undisputed and resounding "yes you can!" I'm a JavaScript developer. The Roadmap to be a front-end JavaScript developer is outstanding (especially the jQuery section). The server-side is top-notch, and it's getting even better with it integrating mongodb (hello MEAN stack!). Admittedly, I took a course on Udemy entitled, The Complete Web Developer Course, by Rob Percival (another attributed factor to my success.). Can it be done in 3-6 months? YES! Is it tough, absolutely! I balanced and sacrificed sleep, a full-time job, and time with my daughter, but my life is so much better now! Again, any questions, feel free to contact me via the forum, social media (@model3volution), or my blog, I'm more than happy to be in a position to give back!

Hey folks :D

Does anyone want to join our team slack where we collaborate on projects, and help each other?

Anyone is welcome, if your a designer, or an app developer or maybe web dev, your welcome. If your a beginner or advanced, your welcome, doesn't matter. If your interested please comment under this answer.

Any more questions please ask :)

@Konrad Pilch, add me to the group please. At this stage I can only manage HTML5 and CSS3, and have just started learning JavaScript for two months now. I started coding last year in June and I am working hard to learn. My email address is chrismlalazi@gmail.com. I am a full time creative writer by the way.

Have joined, hope this won't confuse me as I have another slack account

I've been an on-again, off-again user of this site for about three years now. While I've never gotten a job or even made a dime as a result of what I've learned, I'm still glad to have used it. The price is affordable, and you really do learn a lot... even if you don't use it professionally. I wouldn't mind jumping in on the techdegree program but paying $399 a month is just not affordable for me.

For those still following, my latest post is up! I talk about my first project as a web developer thanks to what I learned from Treehouse! http://wp.me/p74H20-3v

martina carrington Thank you! Christopher Mlalazi Hang in there! Hope all is going well

After 2 weeks, I launched a way for my metro area to view who has the most followers on Instagram, and view the most liked pics. I was a challenge there were several times when I thought I'd gotten over my head. But thanks to Treehouse and their AJAX course I'd taken a while ago, I wasn't doing anything that I hadn't been exposed to. Shameless plug, the article is here: http://qctimes.com/q-c-famous-who-has-the-most-followers-on-instagram/article_bdf454b8-f5ea-11e5-8550-a35819d29c30.html

More importantly though (the link I hope most of you click if interested in JS or the Instagram API) is the screencast that Instagram makes you do before an app can be accepted and thus go live, it's loaded with an html5 tag so give it a minute before it loads: http://176.32.230.250/michaelliendo.com/instagramSubmission/video.html it's not a tutorial, but more of an outline to show my thought process and give real world insight.

I've been using treehouse on and off since they launched, I work as a growth hacker with a strong presence in web development and ruby on rails development. I have been hired to consult, fulltime and started several start-ups from the information obtained.

My most recent job offer was $150,000/year not bad.

I have had offers from overstock.com, amazon, netflix and BVaccel

Just some insight that it is obtainable, I have no degree and started with no coding knowledge.

I've been using treehouse on and off since they launched, I work as a growth hacker with a strong presence in web development and ruby on rails development. I have been hired to consult, fulltime and started several start-ups from the information obtained.

My most recent job offer was $150,000/year not bad.

I have had offers from overstock.com, amazon, netflix and BVaccel

Just some insight that it is obtainable, I have no degree and started with no coding knowledge.

Great to know thanks Daniel! This inspires me to keep on learning!

Hello,

I got a job in 3 months. I posted my story on Quora here.

https://www.quora.com/Can-you-get-a-job-after-finishing-Codeacademy-and-Treehouse/answer/Chris-Sean-3?srid=Q4AQ

Now, I'm not going to lie, I got very lucky with getting my first job as a web developer.

I genuinely believe I have an easy to get along with personality which must have helped.

Just because you learn to code doesnt mean you get a job. You need to be able to show how hungry you are, show examples of what you built, and prove to them you will be a rare jewel found in a bag of gold.