Really thinking about a career change, is a coding bootcamp worth it ?

There are two cases I've seen frequently with open source: 1. Hack Reactor people list a section under "experience" called "Personal Projects" that is a list of their personal projects on GitHub 2. Codesmith people list a section under experience called "Open Source Projects" which are personal projects similar to Hack Reactors and not really open source. Most people separately list a larger group open source project as "software engineer experience" for a "company". These projects aren't really open source projects as almost all have no outside contribution and are not worked on after Codesmith (you can look at the GitHub histories for all of them yourself). The projects are great group projects but they aren't paid and slightly controversial... I know a lot of people on the hiring side that fell for this trick in a resume screen and thought the people had paid work experience and realized in first calls that this was not real work. I'm not sure why these group projects are not also listed under "Open Source Projects" along with their other projects. EDIT: this is getting downvoted, want to make it clear I'm not badmouthing Codesmith here - this is just a controversial point in the industry. There are pros and cons to this and I understand Codesmith staff and students might feel defensive, and I also think there are positives to this approach, but there are people in the industry, for example [this thread,](https://www.reddit.com/r/TechLA/comments/b7xl98/codesmith_coding_bootcamp_scam_beware/) outside of Codesmith and outside of this subreddit, that don't like the way people portray the OSP projects as well. Two sides to everything.