Hi my name is Stephanie and I'm a frontend web development student at OpenClassrooms
I think my favorite thing about OpenClassrooms is the fact that they are really people oriented
and they really care about you. I think a way of seeing that is the mentoring program. I
think my mentor has definitely made a huge impact in my life. She doesn't only focus on
the fact that I am doing things technically correct in terms of theory and in terms of
coding but also in the fact that I am okay as a person and I think the whole team at
OpenClassrooms is really focused on that which makes you feel taken care of.
They have great courses that teach you the theory but the fact that you have projects
makes you realise that all the knowledge you have it's actually appliable into something
which I think prepares you for the work out there and it's really nice to come out of
your career with a portfolio already to show which I think is not something that you find
often and it's something I've cherished a lot throughout this career. So basically the
way the mentoring process works is you meet every week with a particular mentor that helps
you throughout your projects I think technology is a career that can get very stressful from
time to time I think you can get very stuck in something and if you don't have
somebody there to kind of like hold your hand and be like "you got this", it can become a little
frustrating.
I think that's what my mentor has done for me.
Being able to push me and make sure I reach my full potential.
It's nice to have somebody looking out for you and caring for you and it makes you want
to care for yourself a little bit more I think.
Before I came into OpenClassrooms I think I was a person that was very away from technology.
I was really into art, I was really into languages.
I was everything that you would not think of when you see programming but I found the
challenge and I liked it.
I think I found this whole thing by a coincidence and stayed by choice and I think it's the
best choice I've made so far.