u/michaelnovati posted · · edited ★ FEATURED
Launch School Placement Date - Q4 2024 Cohort, ~70% placed within six months - similar to previous cohort. Lower salaries at $100K mediums - indicating role shifts. Very strong results given the market but very small program so hard to extrapolate.
Results [https://www.reddit.com/r/launchschool/comments/1kzrkyv/cohort\_2405\_salary\_outcomes\_6months/](https://www.reddit.com/r/launchschool/comments/1kzrkyv/cohort_2405_salary_outcomes_6months/)
2024-2025 saw major changes to top bootcamps. Codesmith - arguably the top program alongside Launch Schoo - is down about 80% of it's staff and the founder seems to be moving on to writing a book about AI Ethics and doing a new Front End Masters course while the remaining Codesmith students are taught by recent graduate 'lead instructors' with no SWE experience that their website calls 'engineering industry experts' - most recent 6 month placement was around 40% and that was counting a ton of people who ghosted and were counted because of their LinkedIn pages. Hack Reactor after many changes is an unrecognizable version of it's former self. App Academy paused SWE. Turing shut down. Launch Academy paused. Rithm shut down.
And in all of that - Launch School has been chugging along. It used to have a 100% placement rate so 70% is a significant decline, but in a a world where other programs are struggling to have relevance, Launch School is still getting by.
The caveats are that there are very few people - 16 enrolled per cohort and about 4 cohorts a year. You have to core for months - a year before being ready to join the Capstone.
They are also noting declines in salary - people aren't taking the canonical solid SWE jobs but are taking a wider range of quality of roles and jobs at less strong companies. But a $100K job is still a $100K job, and you'll be good down the road still.
You can see the full results in the link.