Navigating the Debate: Bootcamps, Criticism, and Personal Responsibility

Bootcamps work for a specific slice of people. Launch School is the only program I know that systematically tries to find those people though a multi step, months long process of getting through to Capstone. And surprise, it works better! But you don't know if it will work for you until you try getting through, and you might be capable of getting a job through a bootcamp, just not through Launch School. Launch School has like under 100 capstone students a year. The problem with bootcamps, which particularly hit Codesmith hard and they haven't fully recovered is that they scaled from 100 students a year to over a 1000, thinking that if it worked for so many of their students when they are small, it would work for everyone who passes the bar. While Launch School has maintained a relatively high placement rates. Unofficially reported Codesmith placement rates have gone down drastically in the mad market. I interpret this in my opinion that Launch School has more intrinsic impact on the outcomes, whereas Codesmith's outcomes are more the result of the person and the market than anything they do and their true impact is small.