DCI Digital Career Institute GmbH Reviews 

Ich bin voll und ganz zufrieden. Ich bin in meiner Entscheidung Findung sehr viel näher gekommen und habe in den 4 Wochen viel gelernt

Professionalität und Freundlichkeit

Unterricht war schwer aber macht Spaß

Die Betreuung und die Lehrer sehr gut sind.👌👌

Ich habe ein paar Tagen einen Orientierung Kurse begonnen und das gefählt mir gut

Ich kann jedem empfehlen diesen Orientierungskurs zu machen!

I recently completed a 4-week orientational course with DCI covering online marketing, web development, a one-day introduction to AWS, Salesforce and CV preparation. I found the course to be extremely useful, providing a great foundation in these areas. The teachers were very knowledgeable, friendly, and always willing to help, making the learning experience enjoyable and engaging. This course has given me the confidence to pursue further studies in AWS, and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to explore these fields.

Der Orientierungskurs ist sehr informativ, wird gut erklärt und die Dozenten super freundlich und geduldig!
Wichtig zu wissen ist, dass man in diesem aktuell nicht auf den Genuss kommt sich auch das Programmieren anzuschauen. Auch die Themen Sys Admin und Personal Management, werden an je einem Tag durch genommen, was ich enttäuschend fand und daher auch ein Stern Abzug.
Die Jahreskurse sind keine Umschulung, sondern lediglich Weiterbildungen und dessen sollte man sich absolut bewusst sein

Man lernt gut was das zu. Lehrer sind auch sehr net. Nur wenn man schon fertig ist, kannst du gefühlt nur nebenbei was zocken oder lesen.

Before I continue with some of the things I think could use improving, I just want to say a big thank you to the teachers in my course, they really put an effort into teaching, and have proved nice people and trying always to do the best they could to help everybody who had asked for help with very big patience and offering different possibilities of solutions. The lectures were concise most of the times, and if they weren't, there was a considerable amount of good will on the teachers side to help clear the misunderstanding or unclear parts.
Also, having been surrounded by nice people and colleagues who were willing to help with code issues (here I especially mean two tutors and a few other colleagues) were strongest reasons for DCI earning that one star from me.
I couldn't complain to my communication with the class management, although I know that some other colleagues weren't satisified at all when at times it seemed even the class managers could only shrug their shoulders after listening to our complaints because their hands seemed tied to address some of the issues (let's mention only not being able to record the lessons for later, which would have been a great help in learning).

Now, I will follow with a few complaints in order to justify why I wouldn't give more than one star and give some suggestions.

On a general level, there seems to be a big discrepancy between how things about the courses are presented when advertising the course, and how they turn out when actually coming to the realization stage.

The Orientation Course, at least the one being held in 2023. by my humble opinion didn't at all offer a fair representation of all the longer courses it should help attendees orientate towards. Namely, Python, Java, AWS, Salesforce were fit each in half a day or a day in the best case, which definitely couldn't be enough for someone to decide whether they would take any of these courses, at least not based on the experiences gained about these courses in the Orientation Course.
For instance, I was initially interested more in learning Python than Web Development, but as Python was underrepresented, I didn't dare to choose Python based on a one day experience.
As I did subsequently choose a one year Web Dev course, I could say that from today's perspective, had I encountered the JavaScript in the Orientation Course phase, I probably wouldn't have decided for Web Dev. As simple as that.
My suggestion would be to please significantly improve the structure of the orientation course to include more relevant information on all the courses offered. Also bear in mind that the Orientation Course should be more discriminative for attendees that might not be successful in the one year course. The goal of Orientation Course, along giving fair information about one year courses would also be to reduce the content related drop out rate in the one year courses, after the Bildungsgutschein by ArbeitsAmt has already been issued.

Continuing, I don't know about other courses, but my general complaint to DCI advertisement strategies is they should be leveled down to bear the reality check. If the situation on the market is tough, the advertising of the courses should be fit accordingly.

Namely, I suggest to put an up to date 1. feedback about different courses completion/dropout rates as well as 2. placement statistics separately for each course, especially after the finish of alumni period. 3. Also mention how many graduates have managed to land an internship, land a job after an internship, land an internship in the DCI partner companies, and most importantly land a job after internships in DCI partner companies, as a certain control indicator of whether the courses are adequately tailored to the DCI partners needs or not.
The materials that we've learned in the one year Web Dev course are a good basis for further learning, but unfortunately not more than that. Therefore most of the colleagues in my course generation didn't stand a real chance even for the internship.

Hence, I would strongly suggest to please take down the 80% placement rate slogan, and rather update it monthly with relevant data across all the courses DCI offers, as mentioned above.

My final and most important suggestion would be to work and arrange with your partners companies to assure a 100% internship for all the alumni that finish any of the DCI longer courses, and help support covering the adequate part of all the future students Bildungsgutscheins costs based on every successful candidate that any partner company decides to keep after successfully finishing the internship phase.

This would be the real proof of DCI programs tailored to their partners needs and a DCI that I'd consider giving more than only 1 star.

Sincerely and constructively,

Tomislav Miljak

Please trust the bad reviews. After the 12-month Web Dev course, this is my opinion:

- the teachers... confusing lessons, given by someone who knew nothing about what they were teaching.
- the curriculum isn't bad and could work if there was the slightest organization, preparation of materials and lessons.
- lack of support from class support (your complaints will either be ignored or answered too late).
- too many hours wasted on job coaches and soft skills classes.
- my class went through moments of despair (we all had to buy extra online courses because otherwise we wouldn't learn anything), until we literally had to shout in meetings in order to be heard and change something (which did change, but it was too late after 9 months of complaining).
- After that, some teachers were good at teaching and were good people, nice and understanding and I'm really sorry they had to go through this mess of a school, but unfortunately even they can't make me give them more than one star. I hope they find something better.

Hi,
myself Lakshmi. I attended AWS/reStart course at DCI. The way it was planned is really appreciated with proper formats of technical, practical and interview related preparations as well.

I am grateful for the entire DCI team and our tutor Dr.Dominic Singaraj who explained all the concepts really well and in very interesting manner.

Hallo,
ich freue mich, dass ich die Gelegenheit habe, mit Ihnen über DCI zu sprechen. Ich habe Erfahrung mit Herrn Galal, der sehr offen, freundlich und zielorientiert ist. Er war in der Lage, die Ziele seines Unternehmens zu definieren und den Kunden genau zu vermitteln, was er will. Er hat mir erklärt, wie der Tagesablauf aussehen wird, wenn ich einen Kurs besuche. Ich bin von Ihrem Angebot überzeugt, was mich vor allem bei den Kursen Online Marketing und Webdesigner überzeugt hat. Ich empfehle DCI Digital Carrer jedem, der daran interessiert ist, so etwas zu lernen und in seinem Lebenslauf zu haben.
Vielen Dank!
Salih

Der DCI-Orientierungskurs für digitale Berufe hat mir rundum gut gefallen und mir geholfen, die nächsten Schritte für meinen beruflichen Weg festzulegen.
Der gesamte Ablauf war technisch einwandfrei und wurde remote hervorragend umgesetzt. Der Kurs bot eine fundierte Einführung in Online-Marketing sowie in die Webentwicklung mit HTML und CSS.

Meine Kontaktperson, M. Schormair, ermöglichte es mir, mit weiteren Lehrern aus alternativen Kursen zu sprechen, um noch mehr über verschiedene Karrierewege zu erfahren. Die Workshoptage boten darüber hinaus wertvolle Einblicke in HR, Salesforce, Tech-Berufe, Bewerbungscoaching und sogar JavaScript.

Der Service war durchweg professionell, und man spürte, dass das Team mit viel Engagement und Herzblut dabei ist. Ein großartiger Kurs für alle, die sich in der digitalen Welt orientieren und weiterentwickeln möchten. Klare Empfehlung!

Meine Erfahrung mit dem DCI Institute war sehr positiv. Die Kurse sind praxisnah und gut strukturiert, besonders für Quereinsteiger wie mich. Die Dozenten waren unterstützend, und das Karriere-Coaching hat mir geholfen, mich sicherer im digitalen Arbeitsmarkt zu fühlen.

Als Student der DCI Digital Career Institute, bin ich sehr zufrieden. Meine HR-Dozenten Timo und Laura unterrichten praxisorientiert, verständlich, mit Know-how-Effekt. Mein Wohlfühlfaktor ist dadurch hoch angesiedelt und erweitert meine Kompetenzen, somit wird mein Aufenthalt bei der DCI, Ort des fachlichen und sozialen Lernens, effizient. Die Onlineschulung Face to Face ist qualitativ hochwertig sowie ein Methoden-vielfältiges Seminar. Das Personal der DCI, aus verschiedensten Bereichen, ist sehr freundlich und stets zuvorkommend. Ein fettes Danke an dieser Stelle und weiter so VG Yvonne

Am DCI hat mir besonders gut gefallen, dass sich so sehr Mühe gegeben wird, individuell auf die Schüler*innen einzugehen, mit Spaß und KnowHow den Stoff zu vermitteln und immer ein offenes Ohr für jeden zu haben. Keiner wird mit seinen Themen allein gelassen und gerade der HR Kurs, an dem ich teilnehmen durfte, war wirklich umfangreich, so dass ich damit auch wirklich gute Chancen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt habe. Gemeinsam zum Erfolg ist hier keine Floskel, sondern süße Realität

They charge >30k€ for two aws exams costing less than 300€ altogether. The content itself is super bad quality and won’t train you to become a devops cloud engineer. Anybody with a degree would confirm this. Writing this as a dci student with 3 degrees in the same field.

I did a 1year fullstack bootcamp at this online school
The teacher lack any teaching skills, and some of them struggle to explain some concepts in plain english
Also they don't encourage cooperation but more competition between students. If you don't get any concepts you'll be left behind and they will focus only on the few ones that they get it in the first place. That was for me the worst. The teachers were calling all the time the same 2 or 3 names and not engaging the other ones in the conversation
The classes are overcrowded(20+) and the curricula is rushed. We had situations where even the teachers couldn't understand the assignments
Some of the people from the management agreed that their plans is to literally onboard as much people as possible. There's no filtering in the way they organize the classes.
Quality is pretty low
Most of us couldn't make it without enrolling in courses on Udemy or other alike
Considering the fact that you spend around 40h/week for one year for this, my time was mainly wasted by being forced to attend. I could've learned better programming skills on my own in this amount of time