Hack Reactor 19 week program sucks - definitely not worth your time and money

The job market right now is putting "the best" to the test. Many bootcamps have long been pretty poor education experiences that use a high entrance bar to let in people that would succeed without the program but need a little more guidance. In a good job market where you get a six figure job, that "little more guidance" was easily worth any amount of money. In a tough job market people are pulling out the magnifying glass to see exactly what they are paying for, because they aren't getting jobs anymore. I've seen Hack Reactor and Codesmith's curriculum, and I don't see how people can learn React in a day (literally at Codesmith, it's 1-2 days as of Jan 2023). I worked at Facebook for 8 years, and after leaving it took me months to get really good at React and I'm still not amazing. I don't think it's fair to entirely blame the programs though because they largely haven't changed in this market. So they were getting too much credit in the good time, and they are going to get too much criticism in the bad times, and as usually, things usually land somewhere in between.