u/michaelnovati replied ·
Any coding bootcamp offering you anything in 4 weeks, 8 weeks, .... up to 16 weeks is not a "bootcamp" preparing you for a job, but rather a course. Kind of like a community college course except maybe doing 5 of them at once in 10 hour long days.
You end up with a semester's worth of stuff crammed so fast that you might not even remember a lot.
On the other hand, self paces programs tend to lose people when they get hard, because it's super easy to sign up with a "job guarantee" and then never graduate and never be eligible for the refund. So these programs attract people who aren't fully committed.
Two options:
1. I like Launch School's model, the "slow path" to a career.
2. Part time but rigid schedules can work better as a compromise.
But overall, market is not hiring bootcamp grads with no experience and best of the worst still isn't good.