u/michaelnovati replied ·
I would assess them based on the newest facts and really look into it carefully because of numerous recent changes.
BloomTech just had a round of layoffs and half the company left and they have hard pivot towards a self serve model. The free trial zone was a ghost town a few months ago and the sessions had 0 to 2 people registered and it doesn't seem like many people are joining. Their last report had only about 50% of people who started graduate and I suspect it will become less and less with these changes.
Their backend program that had a "100% placement rate and average six figure outcome" saw all of the people (inside report, not confirmed) go to Amazon and Amazon has basically stopped hiring entirely since and laid off 18,000 people.
One of those people had 8 years of experience already and got a full midlevel SWE job. So I would also assume that class was cherry picked for the best people to ensure the first cohort ever had those results.
Anyways, I'm not saying not to go there, just that you really have to look at the current state and not judge them from their past. Lambda School had a pretty bad reputation but I would also throw that out the window and really analyze where they are today.