u/Affectionate-Net889 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
my thought process for doing a coding bootcamp is that they may teach me some new SWE industry standards that I am unaware of. But the main reason I am considering doing a coding bootcamp is for there networking capabilities if any. Although, I am still doing research if cod
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Sadly many bootcamps have closed, paused, and the ones surviving have had had many layoffs or pullbacks.
Launch School continues to update stuff, but a lot of the previous "best bootcamps" haven't been updating materials in a long time, and their projects are awful. Their marketing tells you their projects are incredible and get people jobs and the reality is that that is not true for most people who get jobs. And the people who gets jobs, or maybe lied about their projects to get jobs requiring experience, don't always have the best career trajectories too, a number of people don't make it a year on the job, job hop a lot, etc...
Bootcamps are not a supplement for a 'practical experience', they currently mostly work for super ambitious people with relevant professional experience to hustle their way into a job, and then keep the hustle going for years until they have enough experience to have a stable job.