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

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

Just curious, is Georgia Tech considered a good school? I see a lot of chatter about the Georgia Tech CS master's program and consider it myself vs another bachelor's in CS.

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Zooming out, masters degrees are super complicated. You know how 2U/Edx/Trilogy has partnerships with most of the top schools to run bootcamps under their names. Masters degrees fall into a similar world of for profit, where a lot of top schools that have expensive, short degrees that they offer online or in remote cities for a very high fee. The real benefit I'm talking about above for CS degrees is if you are able to engage directly with recruiters who are dedicated to hiring from your school and get priority interviews and "the red carpet treatment" (recruiters taking you out for dinner, fancy events, boxes of coconut water mailed to you). It's not going there just grants you these benefits, they happen because the students end up being superstars at the companies and the recruiters go back for the next year's graduates. The fundamental problem with bootcamps is that there isn't A SINGLE BOOTCAMP that has recruiters lined up for their graduates. Not even Codesmith with it's best of the best salaries. Anyways, Georgia Tech is a top 10/20 CS school but their masters program doesn't give you the above, so it's reasonable to consider it, but not a hands down clear choice.