Do Not Waste Money on a Bootcamp. Get a degree.

I partially agree with the OP yeah. I do think the "ship has sailed" for a group of people that had a previous career they didn't like, saw the flexibility and high salaries of SWEs in a youtube video or an ad, and impulsively joined a bootcamp to career switch without considering all the options. I do think a smaller number of people it's still a viable option (not THE ONLY option, but a viable one). People who have put in months or years of self study, have a lot of personal runway/savings and no hard headlines, and have a previous career that has some or many transferrable soft skills to SWE (e.g. lawyer, doctor, accountant, teacher). Then a bootcamp might be a good option to focus and make the final jump. People post on here when they get their job or shortly after to celebrate, but it's not the end, it's the beginning and there is quite a journey ahead - of ups and downs. But to corroborate the OPs post, who seems highly likely talking about Turing School, I think a number of the top programs have had layoffs in the past two months: Codesmith, Turing, Hack Reactor. Launch School and Rithm I'm not aware of any, but both had very small (ie. 20 - 30 people at a time) programs that were way oversubscribed and might just be barely filling up right now vs the others which have actually shrunk. So I think most people get this already.