u/thievingfour wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Not a AA ex-employee, but I can confirm that many instructional staff at bootcamps take the position because they couldn't get a dev role. It often shows in their teaching, e.g. students can often tell the instructor is only marginally better than them, instructor seems to not be
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I know of two instructors who worked as SWEs and then went back as instructors at Codesmith. I can't speak to their personal situations, but they seem like at least not bad engineers. So I wouldn't say that's universally or unanimously true.
If a decent paying job drops in your lap and you otherwise wouldn't have income, I can see it being an okay option while you job hunt.