Site live on 2026-10-08 with tuition ($16,500), program pages (full-time 14 weeks, part-time 30 weeks) and an admissions portal, but no cohort start date or application deadline appears on any page fetched, and the homepage still advertises info sessions dated October 14 and October 28, 2025, a year old. The bootcamp-locator, locations and find-my-bootcamp pages return 404. Hack Reactor's FAQ says the two brands combined operations in August 2023. Treat as not demonstrably enrolling until a dated cohort is confirmed by admissions. source
Tech Elevator is Stride's Java-focused live-online bootcamp at $16,500 for 14 weeks, with a well-defined coaching program and a history of reporting to CIRR that ended in 2021. It would suit career changers aiming at Midwest enterprise employers, if a cohort is running. Before paying a deposit, get a dated start in writing, because the site shows none and its info-session listings are a year old.
The facts
| Category | Software engineering |
|---|---|
| Website | techelevator.com |
| Based | Cleveland, OH (historical campus; not stated on site) |
| Format | online-live |
| Programs | Full-Time Coding Bootcamp (14 wks, Java), Part-Time Coding Bootcamp (30 wks) |
| Length | 14 weeks (Full-time 14 weeks, Mon-Fri 9am to 4:30pm, '800+ hours of coding and other tech training' plus about 45 hours of coaching; part-time 30 weeks (own online bootcamp page).) verified |
| Tuition | $16,500 Tuition page and online bootcamp page: 'The bootcamp tuition is $16,500.' verified |
| Financing | installments, loan, scholarship, employer Tuition page: monthly financing 'averaging $338 per month'; Payment Protection Loans from Clasp Group or FinWise Bank repaid in fixed installments after leaving the program; WIOA workforce grants in OH, MI, PA; Hebrew Free Loan; vocational rehabilitation funding; Represent Tech Scholarship covering 'more than $13,000'; employer reskilling. No ISA on the current site (SwitchUp's ISA mention is stale). |
| Admission | basic assessment Admissions page is a lead form plus 'Create Account' for the admissions portal; steps and prerequisites are not published. Historically an aptitude assessment and interview (Course Report). |
| Stack | Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL, React, Git/GitHub, REST APIs, AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT) |
| Hiring partners (claimed) | Progressive Insurance, Hyland, PNC Bank, The Home Depot claimed |
Outcomes
Reporting period: 2024 Alumni Report (survey of nine years of graduates): $90,483 average annual earnings, 85% satisfied with role, 56% promoted since graduation. Outcomes page: 'We do not publish placement data publicly.' Historical CIRR data on cirr.org runs through H1 2021; Course Report cites Jan-Jun 2022: 83% graduation, 70% employed within 180 days, $74,000 median (24 graduates).. unknown source
Interview-prep depth
2 / 5
Outcomes and tuition pages describe roughly 45 coaching hours with mock interviews, interview readiness and personal branding; no algorithm or system-design unit appears in the published Java curriculum outline.
Job support: structured. Pathway Program: 1-on-1 career coaching on 'interview readiness', a personal-branding curriculum with 'mock interviews and alumni networking', employer introductions through company panels, mock interviews and hiring events; about 45 hours of coaching; support for six months after graduation.
Whatever the program covers, the interview itself is free to prepare for here: coding patterns, system design, practice prompts, company guides.
What a careful reader should know
Site footer: 'Tech Elevator, Inc. is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of Galvanize Inc.'; Galvanize is owned by Stride, Inc., which announced the Tech Elevator acquisition in November 2020 (Wikipedia). Tech Elevator was a CIRR reporter through H1 2021 and left; the current outcomes page explicitly declines to publish placement data. Former campuses (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Detroit per Course Report) are now a 'National Live Remote' program. Founding year and address are not on the site. The site blocks automated fetches (Cloudflare); content was read through a render proxy. Reddit sentiment could not be sampled this session (search tools blocked).
Third-party signals: Course Report 4.9 (509 reviews). SwitchUp 4.91. Graduation-time star ratings are collected by the schools; weigh them accordingly.
Sources (16)
- techelevator.com/
- techelevator.com/tuition/
- techelevator.com/bootcamp/tuition-cost/
- techelevator.com/outcomes/
- techelevator.com/about/
- techelevator.com/admissions/
- techelevator.com/contact/
- stridelearning.com/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stride,_Inc.
- coursereport.com/schools/tech-elevator
- switchup.org/bootcamps/tech-elevator
- cirr.org/data
- techelevator.com/bootcamp/online/
- techelevator.com/bootcamp-locator/
- techelevator.com/find-my-bootcamp/
- hackreactor.com/faq
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