Career changers who tutor other bootcamp students: is this a thing?

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

I'm a career changer (15 years in retail & now building Rails apps) about 2 years into my dev journey. I've been working with a mentor and have shipped a few production projects. Lately I've been wondering if there's value in "peer tutoring". Not senior devs teaching down, but m

u/michaelnovati replied · Feb 12, 2026

Yeah, this is a thing. Sidebar is an example. I haven't seen any free stuff that's useful because especially the more senior and you are, the busier your life is and the busier your job is and the more responsibility, I haven't seen any free ones work. A lo people start off with enthusiasm but quickly start missing sessions and it's hard without having some kind of structure and accountability.

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

TAs covered this. TAs were recent grads at some bootcamps, and recent grads were full fledged instructors at others (not saying that's a good thing, just that that's how some are/were). There are also tons of Discord servers that theoretically serve this purpose, but they usua

u/michaelnovati replied · Feb 12, 2026

I joined them all and just cleared out all the dead ones and my gosh there are a lot of dead ones.