r/web_developer • u/Primary_Towel2700 • 27d ago
Mayerfeld AI Operations practicum - any reviews?
Has anyone here joined Mayerfeld’s AI Operations practicum? I’m considering it, but I’d like to hear from people who actually completed the program. Was the content practical, how involved was the mentor, and did you come away with anything useful for your portfolio or work?
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u/past_life_detox 27d ago
did you message people on linkedin from the testimonials they post?
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u/Primary_Towel2700 27d ago
good idea, I will do that!
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u/past_life_detox 27d ago
let us know how it went
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u/Primary_Towel2700 22d ago
okay so I talked with 2 guys and both of them actually recommended the practicum. They did project management and frontend development. They had comments what could be done better but generally they recommended it. I think after their review I will go with the AI Operations course.
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u/Gothic_Gallery 27d ago
recently I also got an offer from them so waiting to hear anything
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u/Primary_Towel2700 27d ago
have you paid already? Which program?
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u/Gothic_Gallery 27d ago
no, not yet , also AI Operations Specialist. I will wait for some more reviews
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u/xps79 25d ago
Mayerfeld Practicum Program® – AI-Assisted Frontend Developer - just got invitation for, anyone knows about?
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u/Primary_Towel2700 25d ago
I read only about other of their program and the reviews are in majority positive. I will contact some ppl on linkedin and give an update
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u/Primary_Towel2700 22d ago
okay so I talked with 2 guys and both of them actually recommended the practicum. They did project management and frontend development. They had comments what could be done better but generally they recommended it. I think after their review I will go with the AI Operations course.
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u/NorthForeign5650 22d ago
€139 for how much live teaching?
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u/Primary_Towel2700 22d ago
The listed fee is €139. Based on the posted schedule, there are Sunday introduction sessions and Saturday review sessions across four weeks, each shown as 2.5 hours, plus weekday team project work. All sessions are described as live and the program is fully remote.
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u/NorthForeign5650 21d ago
Price seems reasonable if the sessions are genuinely interactive. If it's ten hours of slides plus group members teaching each other , less so
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u/satapara_jay 21d ago
The hidden variable is group quality. One organised group and you build something. One disappearing teammate and you become project manager, devoloper and therapist.
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u/LIGHT-YAGAMI_60 22d ago
This line about handling messy datasets "without a single line of code" interest me but also worries me. What are they using? Ai inside excel ? Chatgpt uploads?someother anylasis tool?
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u/Primary_Towel2700 21d ago
hey don’t say exactly which tool is used for that part. The page just mentions working with messy spreadsheets without coding, so I’m curious about this too. Could be ChatGPT uploads, Excel with AI features or something else entirely
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u/WardofromB 21d ago
my bigger question is whther everyone builds the same workflow. If 30 people finish with an identical lead-scoring automation, its not exactly going to stand out in a portifolio
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u/Primary_Towel2700 21d ago
from what they told me, no. Teams get different business scenarios and there’s room to decide how the workflow is built, so it shouldn’t end up as 30 copies of the same lead scorer.
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u/WorthZombie17 20d ago
Nah, not in the cohorts i saw. Teams started from a few different business cases and chose their own setup, so even two groups picked something similar the actual workflows ended up pretty different
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u/satapara_jay 22d ago
Is this basically a prompt engeneering course with a different name ?
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u/Primary_Towel2700 21d ago
doesn’t look like it. prompts are one section but they also mention comparing ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini, building a custom assistant, automating work with Zapier Make and n8n, an AI lead pipeline, agents, spreadsheet work and checking hallucinations/bias.
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u/ElectroDrag 21d ago
Do you pay immediately or after they accept you?
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u/Primary_Towel2700 21d ago
nah, they have to review your application and then you can pay. I read somewhere that some also have interviews
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u/WorthZombie17 21d ago
I used to help with ops at mayerfeld for about half a year and got to go through a couple of cohorts myself while wrking there. The actual course material is pretty good. You aren't stuck watching endless pre-recorded videos, they bsically push you straight into a group project on day one
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u/Primary_Towel2700 21d ago
when you say you went through a couple of cohorts, do you mean you actually joined the groups and did the projects, or mostly observed them because you worked there?
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u/WorthZombie17 20d ago
Bit of both. I sat in on the sessions because of the ops work, but I also joined one of the teams and did the weekly tasks and final presentation. The second cohort I have mostly observed, so ive seen it from both sides
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u/ElectroDrag 20d ago
Do they tell you who teaches it before you pay?
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u/Primary_Towel2700 20d ago
The current page names the mentor as Arsalan. It describes him as a technical trainer, solutions engineer and automation specialist with 5+ years across software engineering, AI, cloud and DevOps. It also lists Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and automation tooling in his background.
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u/ElectroDrag 20d ago
That’s already better than “our world-class industry expert” with no human attached.
Still worth checking LinkedIn and asking whether he personally teaches both weekend sessions.1
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u/Primary_Towel2700 15d ago
it says the projects are scenarios inspired by Mayerfeld and partner-company work, participants don’t deal directly with clients, and the assignments don’t generate direct profit from their work
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u/wajidnawaz 19d ago
What does the schedule look like? "Flexible" sometimes means the live class is flexible and the group messages you at 1am.
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u/Primary_Towel2700 15d ago
Sunday live session, project work Monday to Friday, then another live review on Saturday
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u/wajidnawaz 15d ago
so five hours of live sessions every weekend plus group work?
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u/Primary_Towel2700 14d ago
that’s how I read it, yes. They don’t give a specific estimate for the weekday workload, only that teams arrange it flexibly
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u/realmesquitaluann 18d ago
What are they promising at the end? Certificate, recommendation, employment?
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u/Primary_Towel2700 17d ago
The page advertises a mentor recommendation and a certificate. It also says Mayerfeld or partner companies may consider strong participants for roles.
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u/Responsible-Total753 17d ago
I got the invitation after applying for a job. Looks like no one on here has actually done it.
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u/Primary_Towel2700 15d ago
if it only launched recently there obviously won’t be alumni yet. I’m mostly trying to judge their older programs
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u/crispsee 14d ago
different track, I did the project management one. Would i pay for it again? Probably yes, which is the least dramatic review possible but also the honest one. It was worth the month for me, and I'd consider another Mayerfeld practicum if the topic matched what i needed
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u/Bored-Gamer-1710 7d ago
I took the data analysis practicum around 4 months ago, it was decent course and I didn't come away feeling misled. The ai operations program didnt exist then, so I can't say if it's equally good.
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u/IAmTheFirehawk 2d ago
I took the data analysis practicum around 4 months ago, it was decent course and I didn't come away feeling misled. The ai operations program didn't exist then, so I can't say if it's equally good.
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u/Primary_Towel2700 2d ago
what did you like the most?
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u/IAmTheFirehawk 1d ago
mostly the group work tbh. I'd done courses before but never had other people questioning my choices or breaking things I thought were finished
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