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What happened to the bootcamps?

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

What are some of these top tier bootcamps? When I was interviewing candidates at FAANG even graduates of Hack Reactor or App Academy were incredibly weak on fundamentals, and these were supposed to be the good ones. Are there better ones now?

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
In no particular order these are generally good, but each is different and depends on you: Codesmith, Rithm School, Launch School Capstone, Hack Reactor, App Academy. I wouldn't judge too hard from CIRR reports - they are useful to identify if a school is legit or not - in order to investigate further, but CIRR is a business league established by bootcamps and it's not a super well written specification - with little details that steer in favor of bootcamps. Talking to recent alumni and figuring out which program day-to-day is a good fit for you is most important, and using data to identify which programs to investigate is step 1.