[dbla]

I used to work for a coding bootcamp (not Flatiron) and made good money with a month off in between each of the three classes I taught each year. I eventually left because it felt like I was complicit in selling a lie. I totally agree with the article. Students graduating from a bootcamp are definitely not "job ready" without additional training / mentorship. Three months is just not a lot of time to acquire all of the good instincts that you naturally learn over years of doing development. Also the number of junior developers coming out of these bootcamps, combined with graduates from traditional CS programs is way more than the Bureau of Labor statistics suggests that the job market can bear and I saw these effects in action. Each class I taught had a harder time finding jobs than the one before, despite being more qualified on average.

That's not to say bootcamps are not worth it for anyone. There are some really good ones out there that honestly want to help improve peoples lives. The catch is that the students that have the most success are not the ones who come in knowing nothing. The most successful students have spent months (if not years) of dedicated self study. The bootcamp acts as a way to fill in some gaps and provide confidence in the job hunt.

[badminton1]

I used to work for the admissions department of a private university (not in the US). Private universities were mostly focused in enrolling as many people as possible, while not being particularly worried about the market needs at all. Back then, our educational system produced an excessive number of attorneys and kinesiologists, leaving many of them in disadvantage at the moment of looking for jobs. Many of them switched to other occupations for very low wages, something that did not release them from the obligation of paying student loans.