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u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Hi, did you have any internships during school? If so I wouldn't do a bootcamp and would do a career accelerator like [Formation.dev](https://Formation.dev) (bias disclosure, my company) Interview Kickstart, Pathrise, Coachable, etc... (all different but worth looking into) If you have a CS degree from a top tier university and are aiming for top tier companies, you need to be good at DS&A, and all of those options above help get interview ready with that, and a bootcamp won't help. If you don't have any experience or projects of note then I would consider a bootcamp and aim for a non-top tier role. Codesmith is a pretty good option for this bucket for CS grads to get a six figure non-top tier tech role. Rithm, Launch School are other options of good bootcamps that you can research and compare to Flatiron. Happy to answer more, I'm tight on time and can't right now, but feel free to DM me too if you want.

u/Omiscient-Potato123 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

I hope you have better fellowship recruiters because the person I got in contact with was kind of a dick.

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Hi, DM me who! Our Fellowship recruiters are former FAANG recruiters and not really salespeople so it might be different from other programs. But no one should be a jerk to you and most people comment that the recruiters are helpful to talk to even if Formation isn't a good fit. A weakness of our model though is that everyone is a industry engineer or recruiter and not a trained teacher or salesperson. You'd be surprised how many times a day we get session feedback where one person thought the mentor was the best ever and disliked them so much they requested to not have sessions with them again. Pros and cons, you get to work with a ton of different people, but it takes some time to figure out who you get along with and who you don't. But there is a bar for attitude where we would remove a mentor or an engineer.