When should you not attempt Hack Reactor(Galvanize)?

The enforced time commitment for both HR 12 week and Codesmith is one of the reasons both are not super diverse. You have to have both the life circumstances to work on this without any source of income for 3 or more months AND you have to have the life circumstances to commit 11 hours a day to a program. Not everyone has the savings or the ability to do this and it tends to bias to non parents with enough savings to live off of for months. These programs though are optimizing for the outcomes of such people though and they don't pretending to be trying to help make the industry more diverse and inclusive. Nothing wrong with this, but it's counter intuitive that the most intense bootcamps with the best outcomes are the least diverse at the same time. Lack of diversity in the industry is the biggest problem with big tech right now in my opinion and I'm committed to working on this problem for as long as it takes, but kind of off topic.