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Any data on the salaries or placement rates of different bootcamps?

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u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Ah my favorite topic haha. So one resource is CIRR. It's a business group started by bootcamps to develop standards for reporting audited outcomes that they all agree with. Unfortunately it's down to only 5 bootcamps reporting in the recent results and has been on the decline each half. Quite frankly, the results other than Codesmith are not great so people have little incentive to keep publishing results as they will probably be used against the bootcamp. HackReactor and BloomTech publish their own audited reports as well, but just following their own metrics rather than CIRRs. I have a strong stance on metrics and don't love any of the above reports as they focus on medians and averages. You want to know what someone with a similar background felt about the program. These numbers get juiced up by people with CS degrees and experience attending and getting high outcomes. I would use them to narrow down to a handful of legit bootcamps: Codesmith, HackReactor, Rithm School, App Academy for example. And then try to contact people who went through the programs who started off similar to yourself and talk to them. People are super open to talking if you reach out!