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Coding Bootcamps in SF

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u/michaelnovati replied ·
I don't think there are any live bootcamp in San Francisco at all. I also don't know any 1 week bootcamps. Maybe try to find a hackathon to attend?

u/ChrisCleaner wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Yes, searching online didn’t give any options. Which I found kinda weird, I’d expect a bunch of courses being offered in SF but apparently not.. Thanks for the response! Do you know any in the Bay Area by chance?

u/michaelnovati replied ·
I live in SF and I can give my thoughts: - A number of the original bootcamps started in person in San Francisco - two things happened simultaneously, rents became extremely high for the businesses, but they also became very high for people so only people making like hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in Tech lived in SF. so the customers for the boot camps weren't even there and had to commute for hours just to go to somewhere in SF - then simultaneously the areas of the city with the most office space for sublease started getting more dangerous and lots of crime so that compounded the fact that people didn't really want to go there. like my partner's phone was stolen right out of her hand and she was pushed over like right in front of our old office downtown, and it happened to our other friend like the week before this happened. - so when covid hit all of the boot camp who were remaining were out and gone. nothing has come back since then