Things were way different 8 years ago.
Doom and gloom from people spending more time on Reddit than job hunting is one thing.
But stats are clear. End of 2023 outcomes were absolutely terrible and people need to exercise extreme caution trusting anyone or anything trying to sell them a bootcamp right now.
You need to go for the right reasons after careful consideration and not get wood by glitz and glamor.
Finally, engineering has become more diverse since then. A bunch of aggro single guys "competing" for FAANG jobs is very much past us and bootcamps are now a place supportive of people from different backgrounds expressing themselves and feeling supported to do things the way they want to do them.
u/Fabulous_Sherbet_431 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I think you may have misunderstood what I wrote.
There were women in our cohort, and it wasn't aggressive bros. It was a bunch of people who were in it together, and healthy competition was a part of the collaboration.
2023 was miserable for everyone, even those with experienc
u/michaelnovatireplied·★ FEATURED
Sorry, was also not implying you said that either and didn't fully explain what I was talking about.
Tech is still largely dominated by men and it was even worse back then. The big tech IPOs attracted a demographic that previously went to wall Street out of school.
Mothers are statistically the primary care giver in the USA and doing a 11 hour a day bootcamp - in person back then - was not at all inclusive. We still see this today in intensives like Codesmith which have been majority men as well (prior to all the recent changes, don't know anymore).
In person bootcamps were - perhaps unintentionally - made for unattached people who could move to SF or NYC and do 11 hours days in person for 3 months and then hustle their way to a job.