Front-End Nanodegree graduate here, and I recently got a job at a startup because of my final project with the program (neighborhood map--using Google maps and AJAX requests). My interview consisted of me adding a new feature to that project and explaining everything.<p>Would I have been able to have gotten the job without the actual Nanodegree? To be perfectly honest, probably. However, the Nanodegree provides structure to a rather cluttered catalogue of courses (not entirely a bad thing). Worth $200&#x2F;mo? (That&#x27;s how much it was for me to do it at the time). It depends on the person. Certainly cheaper than something like General Assembly or App Academy (not comparing the two as they are entirely different things, but they have similar &quot;guarantees&quot;).<p>But knowing what projects I had to do, and what courses I needed to take to prepare for those projects, made it much easier for me to go through the curriculum, rather than just taking ALL of the front-end courses, ALL of the AJAX courses, etc.