[elliotec]

Every after-hours bootcamp I've heard of has had awful reviews. You're missing out on the whole "immersive" part of it, which is really what matters in a lot of ways.

Like how you learned Spanish a couple days a week in middle school. Do you remember more than how to count to ten and ask where the bathroom is? No, but if you had to live in Mexico for 3 months you'd get pretty adept and be able to make your way around and likely have conversations, assuming you put in the time to actually learn.

[yaddayadda]

I would have preferred to do an immersive, in large part for these reasons, but couldn't afford both the tuition and loss of income for months.

The BC I attended claimed to have a flipped classroom model, which would have been better that in instructor in the front of the class demonstrating code. In addition, I was apparently one of the few students who actually did want to change careers, so my "peers" were never willing to work outside of class. Despite my day job, I put in at least 2 hours outside of class for each how in class.

Even with the after-hours approach, if the classroom model had actually been flipped, and there were several peers to work with outside of class, it would have been significantly better, and I think I could get a junior dev job.

[elliotec]

I think you could still get a junior dev job, if you just do a bunch of projects, even if trivial or done before, that demonstrates you know what you're doing. If you don't know what you're doing, the projects will help you learn. Win-win.

If you don't mind me asking, what program did you go to?

[yaddayadda]

Your main competitor that was just sold.

[elliotec]

Your feedback is exactly the same that I get from others coming from that program. Thanks!