u/jhkoenig wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
This type of report, regardless of source, is suspect because it relies on students self-reporting, with no means to truth-check the submissions. This does not reflect on the school, rather on the process used across the board for generating these reports.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I agree with this in general. The CIRR standards have no requirements for verification of salaries, other than asking a person. They also allow LinkedIn verification to be used to confirm employment but without any more qualifications on how to do that. So if someone works as a self employed Uber driver on their LinkedIn and ghosts bootcamp staff, that could as a "confirmed placement" but with "salary not reported".
The one thing they do have more qualification on is the start dates, and the process for verifying with a letter. Even there, they have subjectivity if someone has multiple jobs within the 6 months, to choose a job or the other.
Anyways, all in the spec, don't have time to write all this out yet again, but the TLDR: it was written by bootcamp marketing and outcomes people and not lawyers.