u/Puzzleheaded-Part-17 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
What are your thoughts on BloomTech? As a Y Combinator backed company, they seem to face a lot of negative press that so just don’t see with the other boot camps.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I have a lot of thought on them and have been following for a while. They have audited outcomes that are really not great (something around 50% of people who start get a job within 6 months of graduating and the median salary is quite low compared to the national averages for engineers).
So this is a bit of secret but they use to have this webpage where they listed all of their new grads who were available to hire. I was monitoring that page month to month and something in the low dozens out of many hundreds were hired every month. Their CEOs tweets make it seem like a lot more people are graduating and getting top tier jobs.
I have a minor beef with them personally. One of their alumni came to Formation 2 years and 2 jobs after leaving Bloomtech. We helped them very briefly to interview and negotiate their top tier offer and then Bloomtech shouted out this offer as a success case for THEM. They really had nothing to do with that offer yet it was shouted out in their channels as a placement for them.
I do think it’s a decent option if you really have zero experience in tech and live in an area with zero tech.