u/kabuk1 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
So true! In the UK, Makers is a big one and it seems they’ve pivoted massively. They still run their regular bootcamps, but much more is now going into their apprenticeship programme. You still do the bootcamp with them, but the courses are funded by the Uk gov and you get comp
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Apprenticeships are an amazing idea.
In the United States we to expand the tax credits under the federal apprenticeship program and this would be incredible.
Imagine Google getting more tax credits than it costs to run apprenticeships so that people can go to a free (or you get paid) Google Apprenticeship.
No guaranteed job at all, but the training would be a lot better and you have Goolge on your resume, and then bootcamps could be like interview prep only services to help those apprentices place at other companies (Google can't hire them all but would never help these people place at other companies because it's a conflict of interest)
I can expand on this but if I had political clout with the two Presidential campaigns I would push on this.
Note that Google actually does have a formal government approved apprenticeship under expanded Obama/Biden rules. But it's not enough to solve this problem for SWE specifically.