[nissimk]

These sorts of bootcamps are more along the lines of an employment agency. They make the recruits pay the recruiting fee rather than the hiring company. They also maintain strong relationships with the hiring companies because they've trained the recruits well. I'm not sure how that alters your calculus for the value based on the recruit / student's benenefit, but it is definitely a good value for prospective employers. Also, I imagine these job placement agencies in disguise are much better at helping their students find work than a university even if they are not as good at traditional style education.

[giaour]

If they made the hiring company pay the fee, then you would be correct. That's how hacker school in NYC makes money while offering a tuition-free school.

This bootcamp instead makes its graduates pay. That's very, very different from an employment agency and more like the University of Phoenix.

[gohrt]

> because they've trained the recruits well.

filtered, not trained.