u/Aggravating-Video316 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
For those who were in a bootcamp in 2024 and/or 2025 and got a job during or after the bootcamp..... Could you share the name of the bootcamp, the topics of the bootcamp, your experiences and location (country)? The info might help others in deciding which bootcamp to attend.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I'm going to caution with the premise of the question.
So first off, check for yourself because one off examples of jobs or no job don't mean much in isolation. A small number of people get jobs from all bootcamps. Both Codesmith and Launch School work on open source projects and you can review the projects, see the contributors, check their LinkedIns and see if they got jobs or not. Launch School has provided a report for 2024 grads that accounts for every single person that started and you can see that without doing the work.
Second, it highly depends on the person. People with a engineering background, or experience at a tech company in a non software role, and who take adjacent roles have a much better short.
For example, a 15 year salesperson at tech companies -> "Sales Engineer" is a massively different placement from no-degree no-experience line cook -> FAANG Software Engineer.
More and more of the placements I've seen in 2024-2025 are not "Software Engineer" titles. They are things like "product analyst", "support engineer", or just jobs at tech companies that aren't even technical but are definitely better jobs than previous jobs.
Zooming out I think it's very weird how bootcamps in 2022 that had tons of SWE placements are trying to market similar but slower outcomes in 2024/2025 when in fact the outcomes are entirely different. One sign is the average salary. Inflation running rampant during that time and many bootcamps outcome salaries dropped 10 to 20% during that time and it's not because SWE salaries went down, but because people are taking non SWE roles.