Recently departed bootcamp exec, my thoughts on the industry

It depends how you define outcomes. Again, since we're not a school or program, we are trying to help people achieve their goals, we take you from A -> B in C time for D cost, and those expectations have to be aligned for it to make sense to join. But everyone's A, B, C, D are different. We currently focus on preparing people for top tier DS&A/SD/classic interview pipelines and if we scale super large then it wouldn't make sense because every top tier job would be competing for Formation Fellows and so many people would want to join, there probably wouldn't be enough jobs. So the vision for us is to actually figure out what the best company is FOR YOU, help you figure out your best "B" target. And on the other side, we can help companies find the RIGHT people for them. If we can match everyone up with the right jobs for them and help every company find the right people, we have a scalable solution yeah. One of the problems with bootcamps is when a bootcamp finds a market inefficiency. Like Codesmith grads I'm talking to saying their 3 week project was 2, 3, and 4 years respectively instead of 3 weeks, and getting away with it, like that doesn't scale at all and we're seeing the limits of that in this market as they are shrinking pretty fast. So if we just find an efficient way to get into a small number of companies, we do not scale, correct.