u/genX_rep wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Things change. The bootcamp I went to was more selective when I went than before; their 2015 style grad wasn't good enough. So I actually had a tech interview to get into mine, and now I'm part of the 25% that are still coders. But that was early covid. Now that same bootca
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I'm arguing that going to a top school is better but not that going to a worse school is bad. People from worse schools have amazing careers too, I'm just talking about the statistics and strategizing if I was looking at colleges today.
Regarding performance, yeah at Meta bootcamp grads needed so much extra support and so few even passed the interviews that they generally stopped recruiting from them. I've heard the same thing from many others. At the same time all these same people know amazing individual bootcamp grads that are awesome, it's just not SYSTEMATIC and a lot because of the unique abilities of the person and not something magical the bootcamp did. Did the bootcamp help? maybe and maybe it's worth part of the cost to go to it. but when I see some of the top boot camps right now charging $22,500 for 12 weeks and only a handful of people each cohort being those people, it's not clear. it's worth it for the average person who's considering that.