u/InterestingFrame1982 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
They are a scam now, but during the mid to late 2010s, they were career changing for a lot of people with the passion and motivation to pivot professions. It was never supposed to be the end-all be-all to one's own journey learning software development. For the people who truly
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I commented above but the existential crisis is that bootcamps worked ok when people were paying for the outcome and getting it. It's clear from most of the websites that shove their outcomes into the hero banners that the outcomes are what you are paying for.
If the derivative/delta of the outcomes is in really bad shape and people don't want to pay for the outcome, then the only other option for survival is if they pay for the education itself.... and when you are taught by recent graduates and the materials suck, then people won't pay for that either. Even if you had the #1 quality instructors and materials, it's a hard sell that it's worth $20K for 12 weeks or w/e...
It's really a hard time for all bootcamps if the outcomes are tanking/have tanked and there's no fix or solution that I can think of to the market problem.