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How does the bootcamp refund work if I fail into 90% of the process?

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u/PabloEstAmor wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Two years experience sounds pretty good, even at 50k

u/michaelnovati replied ·
I'm talking about the on paper version of what they are trying to do. I suggest researching how that has actually worked for people to get a sense of when it works and doesn't work. For example, it doesn't work when a CS grad doesn't realize what they are signing up for and loses out on $100K+ of lost income as a result. It also doesn't work if the contract company fires you, or doesn't give you any work to do... which sounds funny but has happened. 50K is kind of a "drop in the bucket" for big tech, that's barely more than San Francisco's minimum wage, and the companies you get contracted to sometimes don't treat you great, and sometimes you are a contractor for a contractor for a contractor (yes 3 layers, e.g. you are W2 for Revature assigned as contractor to Cognizant assigned a contractor to X, who is building something for the government (under a contract). And X is treating you as a warm body who can type.