u/michaelnovati replied ·
Career Karma pivoted. Their homepage is all about AI companions they offer other companies as a product and don't talk about bootcamps whatsoever.
All of their bootcamp reviews are still hosted on direct links for SEO so they can continue to make money from traffic and referrals to bootcamps but it comes across that business is being run simply to continue to make money from the wealth of reviews they have collected over the years.
I believe all this happened earlier this year. I was digging into it a few months ago when I noticed as well and I think I narrowed it down to about April or so but not on the computer and can't check the exact date right now.
It's not surprising at all. With so many bootcamps pausing, shutting down, and laying people off, they have been going into turtle mode to try to survive rather than spending a few thousand dollars in commissions for each enrolled person Career Karma sends them (I've heard anecdotal ranges of $1000 to $3000 but have not seen first hand)
Their business model was very similar to Course Report, which sold off a month ago to a career conglomerate.
So yeah clearly bootcamps hurting has hurt the review websites... which is my entire point about how they are not neutral bystanders.... their survival depends on bootcamps doing well and therefore they have an incentive to make bootcamps look good.