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Careful out there. Bootcamps are lying.

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u/lawschoolredux wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Are there any ANY decent bootcamps left? Hack Reactor - they only publish an overall alumni report now LOL thats kind of untrustworthy IMO how the mighty have fallen! I wonder if this program is still worth it….. Codesmith - probably the best one as they actually publish their

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
2/2 Fullstack - they have traded hands from Zovio to SimpliLearn so it's really a front on top of SimpliLearns business. I don't know enough about it but I suspect similar to Hack Reactor it's kind of like floating around with most of the below-surface running generically within SimpliLearn. Flatiron - they spun back off WeWork and I haven't heard anything either. General Assembly - they actually are still chugging along and they are focusing more on B2B upskilling than. You can read more about their parent [https://www.adeccogroup.com/investors/annual-report](https://www.adeccogroup.com/investors/annual-report) and they actually ARE mentioned often as a potential business boom. But not as a bootcamp, as a B2B upskilling platform. Launch School - yeah the only actually honest bootcamp left that discloses 6 months after a cohort graduates how each student is doing and has still done this. 100% placement in 6 months dropped to 70% (which is what Codesmith was at it's more or less) and their enrollment seems down a bit but sufficient to sustain the business for now. More generally, single cohort programs taught and led by their founders have a chance of surviving because they don't have layers of management in between to pay salaries to. App Academy - after their CEO stepped down and the new CEO tried to reboot it as an AI bootcamp they sold to Coding Temple after the new CEO failed to reboot the SWE portion (it's still paused). Coding Temple - I actually don't know much about them but they seem to be surviving and "acquired" App Academy! Sprinboard/Triple-Ten - these are self paced programs with low completion rates and job guarantees. They are like expensive Udemy courses and I would avoid as well right now - don't fall for job guarantees.