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by drawnwren 3485 days ago
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.
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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.