| Are you planning on verifying that people leaving reviews have first hand experience with a school? Do you allow people affiliated with the school to respond to the reviews in order to share their side of the story? As someone who has participated in one of the bootcamps you list on your site I can tell you that your data will likely be skewed by a vocal minority, and a request to "open the books" and provide the data on graduates is a faulty proposition. When I was researching which bootcamp I would attend, figures about job placement after graduation were extremely important to me and my decision process. However, having attended one of these programs and having worked closely with the other students in my group, I started to understand the flaws in that statistic as a measure of the program. Really, all that it measures is how selective a program is of the students it accepts. Programs that choose the top <1% of applicants are obviously going to place more people into better jobs because they are starting with smarter, more experienced people to begin with. The type of person that is successful in these style of learning environments has a few very specific personality traits. They are extremely motivated, and they have the ability to learn quickly. No bootcamp program can force a lazy person to learn how to code. Just like no company wants to hire a lazy coder. It is not the fault of the program, the instructors, or the curriculum. Obviously, there are some programs that are more thorough than others, but I really found that one of the most valuable things I gained from my program was access to the network of the founders. The people they invited to hiring day and as mentors were awesome, and forming those relationships on my own probably would have been harder than learning how to code. TL;DR If nobody from a program gets hired, then there is a problem with the program. However, if several people do get hired, the others have no business crying "This is a scam!" |
Not really. Honor system.
> Do you allow people affiliated with the school to respond to the reviews in order to share their side of the story?
This is more about personal experience from both students and companies hiring. I'm not preventing people from replying, but that's not really the focus.
> As someone who has participated in one of the bootcamps you list on your site I can tell you that your data will likely be skewed by a vocal minority, and a request to "open the books" and provide the data on graduates is a faulty proposition.
Well I would hope both sides would be represented that way we can get a better view of how successful these places for students hoping to enroll.
> TL;DR If nobody from a program gets hired, then there is a problem with the program. However, if several people do get hired, the others have no business crying "This is a scam!"
Why? Are you assuming those that got hired were also hired by competent companies and went through an interview process that validated what they learned?