Is the incredibly high tuition for the 'best' coding bootcamps commensurate with their quality + job prospects?

They are worse! It depends a lot on the program. One of the best things to read is this from /u/cglee [https://medium.com/launch-school/evolving-landscape-for-software-career-transitioners-a-three-year-review-of-capstone-data-dbab52b6550c](https://medium.com/launch-school/evolving-landscape-for-software-career-transitioners-a-three-year-review-of-capstone-data-dbab52b6550c) . Launch School Capstone is a top tier program with high entrance bar, small program, but it at least shows the trends. Ada for example essentially paused entirely because their model was based on internship partners - who all backed out and hence they have no internships for people. Codesmith's enrollment pace has slowed (they used to be booked for months and are now interviewing days/weeks before new cohorts) but they are fortunately keeping a high bar and their outcomes remain strong (although my information shows them down POSSIBLY about 15-20%ish from the peak) Tech Elevator has anecdotally undergone some restructuring. They had AMAZING in person partnerships in smaller cities that appear to have slowed, similar to Ada, but they have aggregated some programs remotely online. Note Tech Elevator is owned by Hack Reactor's parent company.