u/Noffica wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
These single semester -long bootcamps need to die. They promise the world in the same timeframe as a single semester of a multi-year programme by an established institution. In my time, we had one hour of actual instruction followed by the entire day of floundering on our own.
u/michaelnovati replied ·
It's interesting that when you zoom out and look at without bias from marketing, it sounds absurd that a 4 month long program can cover the materials of a CS degree.
The reason bootcamps worked was that companies needed supply and scraped the bottom of the barrel hoping that they find some diamonds in the rough (because of the amount of training, not the natural abilities of the people themselves)
But no one in the industry ever thought bootcamps worked to actually teach people things.