Are bootcamps still a thing in 2024?

Hi! Yeah I'm surprised there isn't as much commentary around Hack Reactor given that it's historically one of the top bootcamps. All of this is my personal opinion, but I would put them in a bucket with App Academy right now. Sorry this is a bit rambly, I don't really have strong opinions now. My views come from what people tell me, and I don't proactively seek out that much (unless following up on something someone tells me), and I talk a LOT of specific programs that people talk to me about. No one talks to me about HR! Both are historically "top bootcamps", that have scaled pretty well and helped a lot of people. But both have evolved from there as well. App Academy recently had their founder step down and a more corporate business-y person came in to manage it. Hack Reactor sold to Galvanize in 2018. Since then, they have stopped offering in person, merged with Galvanize's back offer, absorbed Tech Elevator and merged it with their back office as well. Galvanize itself was acquired by a large public ed-tech company in 2020. So Hack Reactor of the old days doesn't exist anymore. During the boom times, they built out this longer, 19 week, program for "beginners" that kind of imploded during the market crash that followed and they laid off a lot of the team. Since then consolidating Tech Elevator resulting in more people leaving. I got yelled at on here for daring to talk about that, and a week later the Tech Elevator CEO left. Anyways, I can't comment it it anymore because all the people I know who did it, did it before all of this and I would have recommended it before. It's weakness was the entrance bar was a bit lower so more people dropped out, but generally people that finished did comparable to other good bootcamps.