| This requires more upvotes. I can't believe so many people in this thread are agreeing with the view that is painted in this article as the majority. I went to SF without money for a bootcamp, I did not experience this. The author seems to just have done it without preparing or thinking much. First, if you are joining a bootcamp, there are other people in your cohort with whom you can find support, roommates, etc (that's what I did). 2nd, even if you end up in such a bad situation, you KNOW it's for only 12 weeks. And very intense 12 weeks anyway, so really, all you need your room for is sleeping. 3rd, you socialise with other students and teachers in that bootcamp. Can't you see that most of them are NOT like the nerdy roommates he describes? 4th I have a few friends who work at Pinterest... yes _that_ Pinterest. They can afford their own place in SF, thank you. 5th, the OP wanted to do a 12weeks bootcamp to then work remotely and be a ski bum? That's nice, but he obviously didn't really research what a bootcamp really offers. I've done a bootcamp - I'm now working for myself, but that's 5 years later.
I would have NOT been able to work remotely my first year, I needed way too much mentoring and help to continue learning. Bootcamps don't promise to make your a senior engineer in 12 weeks, they promise to teach you how to learn, so can get a cheap entry level job and _continue_ learning on the job, with _mentoring_. Sorry this sounds like a rant, but I've seen too many people giving a bad image of what bootcamps have to offer. I've had a great experience doing mine and this is true for most people I know who did one too. It just has to be taken how it is. |
I work mostly remote these days--in tech but not a developer at a company with a lot of people who are remote to greater or lesser degrees.
I can't imagine having started out that way though. Communications mechanisms and so forth were different at the time but I can't imagine starting out without physical proximity to co-workers.