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by jimmierock 3392 days ago
I see alot of mixed news about bootcamps. How did you make the decision to attend one, and how did you know which one to attend?
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Yeah, they are saturating the market these days.

I decided to go for it because I was unsatisfied with my degree path (I was in business), and a scholarship more or less fell into my lap.

I filtered the bootcamps based off the curriculum they offered, which I decided my prefrence based on what tech was hot, both in the industry and in my region of the world (South Central US). I then filtered by reviews and success/employment rate. Finally I scheduled an interview with all the remaining options and talked with them to to get as much of an idea as I could on what kind of place they were. I finally applied to one, and thankfully was accepted.

Awesome, thanks. If you could attend a top university at the same price as a bootcamp would you have done it?