Survivor Bias

I agree a lot with this point, but I think there is value of all sides and often say reality is usually somewhere in between. The most important thing is to have well sourced and correct information, otherwise people can't make good calls. If you have something from two people, say it's from two people. If you have a complete data set, say it's a complete data set, and have integrity in what you put out there. The challenge with the bootcamp market is that bootcamps (which as for profit businesses they have every right to) are in the other camp, where they make things sound the best possible and it's good to see more sides of things. For example, CIRR decided to remove all their reports on their website and delayed publishing of 2022 reports so they can publish longer placement windows. You can argue this is a good decision for transparency, but in the mean time, Codesmith had their H2 2022 report ready to go "any day now" and never published it. They have published some salary data and data bout recent offers, but not publishing how long it's taking those people, and my data on this shows that it's much longer than those previous numbers. I'm not making an argument for or against, just a middle road argument that I think all views are useful, but need to be put together critically to figure out what works for you, and only you can ultimately make that conclusion.