u/kklutzington wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Very bad. Got acquired a year ago by perdoceo. Ever since then student number went down the drain. We needed to pivot to machine learning and AI, but it didn’t happen. Got to the point to where we had around 6 instructors every month not needed. Went from 40 student classes for e
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Thanks for sharing and hopefully it was also a learning experience good and bad.
A lot of bootcamps are in a similar situation unfortunately, some nicer than others.
When you say that they needed to pivot to ML and AI, was that officially planned and they couldn't pull it off?
I've seen Codesmith (adding on AI) and BloomTech (pivoting to AI) but it still feels like the days of Web3 and BlockChain bootcamps that popped up during the Bitcoin spike.
No one knew what Web3 skills companies wanted and companies didn't have systematic ways of hiring and accessing for Web3 skills so a bootcamp focused on Web3 didn't make sense.
Right now no one knows what AI skills companies want because the companies don't know.
We're in a 1-2 year phase where companies are exploring generative AI internally and we'll see what kinds of skills people need.
The existing senior engineers will have a lot of sway in what kinds of "AI skills" they want to see in new people joining the company.