| Please take a look at the detailed reports that the bootcamps share about the outcome for their students, you will see that the numbers on the homepage and the actual numbers are so far that it's basically fraud. For a bootcamp that announces 95% of students finding a job in the field you will see that in reality they remove from their numbers the students that: - Did not finish the bootcamp, - "Chose" to get a job out of the field of the bootcamp after the end (as if it was a choice and not because nobody wants to hire them in the field), - Missed a single of their monthly status check meetups (regardless of the reason), - Missed the target (even just once) that their "career advisors" give them like applying to a minimum of 10 jobs in the field every single day, - Refused a job offer they received (a lot are offered a very low-pay job to become an instructor at the same bootcamp). If you do the total, they basically eliminate 80% of their students from the final calculation to reach those 95%. I did a dive-deep during the height of the hiring frenzy and if you only looked at "got a job in the field / were students at the bootcamp", the success rate was at best 20% (for "top tier" bootcamps). And of those that do find a job, it is almost always insanely low pay (I don't think a single one was above $100K in NYC for the bootcamps I looked at). Needless to say that nowadays you simply have not chance to get a job after a bootcamp. The whole industry is a scam. |