u/ConstructionPlenty51 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I got into the industry via bootcamp and had a good experience. It honestly seems like for a lot of these bootcamps they are great when they aren't concerned about being cashflow positive. When they're in the growth phase there's a lot of hands on instruction. However, when they
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Haha Formation is far from perfect but we have an advantage to scale for sure because of our dynamic scheduling engine that gets better the more people we have. We match people up through hundreds of mentorship sessions every week, all scheduled for scratch based on what topics people need to practice, availability, and seniority level. So the more people we can match from, the better the matches end up being!
BUT! The downside is that with such a dynamic schedule, it's more likely for a mentor to have to reschedule or for people in a group to have to drop out. So to make it work, we have to have layers and layers of product and algorithms to handle these cases and make them as least abd possible.
Another aspect of scaling is our mentors. Because Formation doesn't teach anything or have any curriculum and instead we facilitate mentorship and practice: you might like or dislike a mentor or their advice, and you will also have a lot of different mentors throughout. This has a lot of good things (and again, requires a lot of product work outside to make it all work), but it also means you shouldn't come if you want to have a single, dedicated technical mentor and we try to make that clear before you join.
I guess the TLDR, we have aspects that aren't good, but scaling isnt one of them and we don't inherently get worse when we scale, we get better.
But we can't be compared to bootcamps or programs that offer education of a curriculum because we don't have one at all and we don't offer education.