u/lawschoolredux wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
It’s my understanding that Codesmith and Hack Reactor are 2 of the best…. However Codesmith has lifetime career advising services for alumni, but Hack Reactor’s is just 6 months.
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I don't buy any "lifetime career services". Note, I have significant bias because I work on a platform that provides coaching and training and does not provide lifetime career services intentionally and instead gives you full powered training every day until you get a job - and makes you pay to come back in the future for your next job.
Two lectures/office hours a week and access to former students for resume reviews to me isn't the support most people need.
Good training is expensive and good mentors who give good feedback are expensive. The longer you are at in the program I help run, the more it costs us, so we are financially incentivized to get you a job quickly and efficiently.
If you are getting any kind of valuable training "for life" it's not free, it's being included in your tuition price and you are getting worse training while in the bootcamp, to allocate a portion of tuition for that lifelong support. Once you have a few years of experience you need an entirely different tier of training and support than the bootcamp "lifetime support" will offer, and you wasted part of your tuition on that.