u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
The market right now is not great for bootcamp grads. FAANG hiring is opening up again for people with 2+ years of SWE work experience, but not for people with none. And you can't fake this work experience or stretch your resume - it's either 2 real YOE or not - faking your resume will just piss off hiring managers that will tell the recruiter that sent you over to never consider candidates from your bootcamp again and waste their time.
The only data I have here is from Codesmith. They had H1 2022 CIRR placements of 80% within 180 days of graduation for people who graduated and were job hunting. I've seen Codesmith's placement numbers for H2 2022 and for recent cohorts and they are hovering around 50% +/- 15%ish (these are not official numbers but from primary data from students and alumni) and are about a 20% drop from H1 2022 in H2 2022 and H1 2023 (which still has a lot of time left for people to find jobs is somewhere much so terrible for people graduating in Q1 2023 specifically that it might drag down H1 2023 to even lower numbers.
I have data from Formation, which is NOT a bootcamp, that hiring number have picked up at the end of Q2 and job openings are popping up, companies are asking for referrals again, etc...
So everything said, it's such a rollercoaster I don't know if anyone can give you a proper answer. The hiring market is hard for bootcamp grads, is improving a bit for experienced engineers, and the top bootcamps are still placing people - despite lower placement numbers.