I dropped out of Formation.dev after 6 weeks and this is why

I'm the co-founder and lead engineer and have been in the industry for 15 years, 8 years at Facebook and then a break, and then 4 years at Formation. Formation's predecessor, Buildschool, was a free coding bootcamp, and Formation was explicitly founded to not be a bootcamp. There are a few differences, for which there are no bootcamps that offer this kind of thing: 1. Formation has no length, no curriculum, and no expected time frame that you will be training for. You start training on day one and you keep training until you get a job. We work on things week to week that you need to work on, and constantly benchmark across many skills until we think you are at the top-tier company bar (not just FAANG, but the broad top tier bar). As the OP posted, you might have good weeks or bad weeks, but you are paying for unconditional support until you get a job. 2. The majority of people at Formation are currently working full time as SWEs with good jobs, and they are doing Formation part time to train to get a better job and to get our support while job hunting. The people who have zero experience almost all have graduated from a bootcamp already or have a college degree. A bunch of people at Formation TEACH AT BOOTCAMPS. You'll have sessions with current FAANG engineers who are Fellows just like you trying to get a new job. I don't know any bootcamp that is like this. 3. There are no guarantees on what you do day to day, and you don't get any kind of certificate or "completion", everyone will do something different and pay the same, which is very expensive and not cheap. We pay mentors and we pay our engineers FAANG-competitive rates. To put it in one sentence: we are like a personal trainer at the gym for your fundamental skills and job hunt, and not a school/bootcamp/course.