The Hack Reactor Experience - tim-hr/superprep GitHub Wiki

How is the Hack Reactor experience organized?

• Hack Reactor is an advanced software engineering immersion program that aims to compress 2 to 3 years of professional industry experience into just a few months of intense and rigorous work.
• Industry tasks are more practical than theoretical and we attempt to simulate industry experience at every opportunity.
• Similar to working in industry, there are no grades at Hack Reactor.
• When working as a software engineer, your overall performance gets assessed from time to time, to dole out raises and promotions, but that is primarily based on what you accomplish in your work.
• Hack Reactor doesn't really give you grades; but rather we follow this assessment pattern of analyzing accomplishments.
• You will not receive a "grade" for how well you understand a given topic, or even how well you perfrom a single task.
• Take a moment to disabuse yourself of the link between achievement and lettered grades. Rather than this, begin to view your accomplishments in programming as validation in and of themselves.
• At Hack Reactor, as in industry, tasks that one undertakes are intentionally open-ended.
• To view the program as a whole, we work backward from what software engineers do in their day to day schedules, and train with this direction in mind.