u/Swami218 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
They should definitely do some good research. IMO it isn’t for everyone, and with the longer time it takes to get a job it isn’t for the same situations as during the ‘hay day’ times as well. That said, people researching whether a coding bootcamp is right for them would probab
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Does doing your research include looking at reports and asking critical questions and then interpreting answers?
Question: the ghosting rate for placements went from 15% to 65% from 2022 grads to 2023 in CA reports, what happened there? Why are alumni not responsive and is there a problem continuing in 2024?
The problem, whether you think I have biases or not, is that I **do my research** and I show it to people. When things are good, I publish good.
There has been nothing good in the past 2 years, no silver lining, nothing. There have been anecdotal one off success cases.
Codesmith added 5 lectures of AI to their curriculum that are already dated and worse than the free stuff from Andrej Karpathy on Youtube... and they intentionally chose to go all in on an AI curriculum that they knew was changing daily and they didn't have any unique expertise in teaching.
Like I wish I had more good things to say, the last good thing I said was Launch School's 2023 6 month placement rate was 70% which was decent and barely good enough for them to justify continuing on. Codesmith's 2023 6 month placement rate is around 40% including the 65% ghosters... Launch School has every single grad accounting for and ghosting grads are excluded.