Gomycode Nigeria - The reality of a Nigerian Instructor
Pros
A good curriculum for Data Science and Full-Stack web development.
Cons
1) Not student-oriented 2) Emphasis on just making money and getting students without any real plan to help them and see them grow in the field. 3) The allocated time to learn and complete a project is ridiculously small. 4) They lie to students that the program is 5 months before they come in and they have one month to work on their final project. When the students then get in, they realize that the reality is they have 4 months to learn an extensive curriculum with the last month for their project. This is against what they were being told while being marketed. 5) In key courses like data science and full-stack web development the allocated 4 months is ridiculous because they are forced to learn over 20 superskills, finish over 35 checkpoints, complete over 25 ono-to-one, and still understand every single thing being thought. 6) The management doesn't care about their instructors and the challenges they face. 7) The expected learning progress with how students learn is horrible and needs to be reviewed. 8) The structure for how information is passed down to the instructors is horrible from the global team abroad. Complaints and issues are never heard or addressed, and problems with management when raised are bottled down. 9) No incentive to grow 10) Our contract states benefits and bonuses. One of which is a promise that after 6 months, we would get access to the full platform as an instructor. That way, we could upskill and learn new tech skills. That was a lie. Upon request, we learn that we have to pay for every course just like people outside the firm. 11) As an instructor, forget about any plans of getting a teaching certificate or acknowledgment in your field from Gomycode even if you have been with the team for a year plus which makes it difficult for you to show anything that truly qualifies you as an educator. 12) I had a fellow instructor narrate to me that one of the most depressing things that he had to deal with was a period when he had students for a cohort to teach Business Intelligence. When his students all logged into the platform, the videos put in place as part of the curriculum to help the students as well as the picture resources as a guide to elaborate were all in French meanwhile, the rest of the course was in English. Did the management care or provide an incentive to rewrite this wrong? NO. They just hurry you up and move quickly to the next cohort
