[drawnwren]

In SF, with a good portfolio and the ability to demonstrate your coding skills well in an interview, you can expect to get a job w/in about 3 months. This will cost you between $5 and $8k (cost of living) and you will be able to take home anywhere from $53 - $80k/yr (after taxes and before cost of living.) I don't know how this compares to other options, but just thought I'd give you some numbers.

[komali2]

53$ is shockingly low for Bay Area, after taxes. 80K is also low... Hack Reactor bootcamp grads are generally pulling 100-125 straight out, so, what, 85 after taxes?

[gwbas1c]

Because it will be an entry-level position with low expectations. I'd never pay $125k to a self-taught engineer who will move at a snail's pace, and might need a lot of help from the team.

The $125k salary comes later once the engineer moves faster and doesn't need a lot of help.

[drawnwren]

I have friends who went to HR, and my personal perception is that bootcamps are a bubble bound to fall on their faces. They have been aggressively expanding for as long as they have been around, and I don't think the market is keeping pace. 100-125 is the number they advertise, but we won't know when that number has fallen until the 12 month average has fallen significantly.

[komali2]

Well, for reference, I graduated in September and my cohort are all pulling above 100. Hack Reactor's expansion is old news - they acquired Makersquare nearly 2 years ago, they settled on 2 floors of students earlier than that, quite early in their history really.

As long as we see 1000 unique jobs posted on LinkedIn daily, which is the case right now, Bootcamps will continue to profit off the massive lack of general web dev talent. I'd expect a crash to be more of a general economic crash than any fault of the bootcamps.

I can't speak for how other bootcamps are operating. So far the only model that I've seen make sense is HR and Makersquare, which are now the same.