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Programming bootcamps and career hopping in 2025-26 with AI competition

2 of Michael's comments in this thread · View thread on Reddit ↗

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

The majority of bootcamps im looking at have a no job no pay gaurantee type thing. Im currently at an SLE and i hate my circumstances and bootcamps have financial aid so they carrot dangling there is the idea i could get a job in 6 months instead of working some dead end job full

u/michaelnovati replied ·
Don't trust any job guarantee. There are a lot of bootcamps with job guarantees and while I've bumped into a dozen or two people who wanted refunds and got denied, I have yet to bump into someone who actually got the "job guarantee' refund. Illustrative examples like: \- despite a flawless record, you missed a phone call four months ago that was scheduled the day before so no refund \- you took too long to graduate, no refund \- 9 months ago, you failed the mid term twice before passing the third time, so no refund I truly believe if you meet the criteria that you'll get a refund, but it seems extremely hard to actually meet the criteria.

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

Its the power of advertisements. They still run tripple10 ads on my youtube and these ads relentless with their false hope. You can tell OP jas just got bootcamp marketing fed to him the way his post reads. Its basically exactly what the ad is but regurgitated without any acual r

u/michaelnovati replied ·
TripleTen's CPO did a CourseReport video in the past couple weeks and she was talking about how they are going to expand to working with current employees (non-engineers) to help them do better at their job with AI. I feel like changing focus to AI-for-everyone and using the tuition dollars from current dying programs to fund it is not cool.