Has anyone done the Software Engineering Bootcamp through University of Chicago / HyperionDev?

Two things to watch out for in that slide deck of outcomes 1. It's from 2024 and AI changes month to month. A number of industry engineers report not writing code anymore as of 3 months ago, so it's basically irrelevant what happened in 2024. 2. The 88% figure has some crazy fine print. If I'm reading it correctly, 88% of the people WHO GOT JOBS got them within six months and 12% took longer to get the job. But it's not the percentage of people that got a job. TripleTen does a similar metric, but for TripleTen the weakness in the data is more that a huge number of people remain "active" by not graduating and not dropping out so they don't count in the stats and they are there too long to get job guarantee refunds. I don't know if Hyperion is self paced with a similar gap but I would ask for clarity on the placement rates. No program is perfect and any program that looks amazing in this market is shooting themselves in the foot because no one is believing that... so transparency and honesty are the way to go and my comments are not criticism but just trying to get a full picture. That said, bootcamps, like Codesmith, don't want people like me poking around, so some programs take this kind of responsible questioning as an existential attack and text their alumni to go after critics. Others are transparent and honest and that's a much better way to build trust with their customers. As I see from GitHub activity, Codesmith's immersive has almost no signs of life left that so maybe those things just catch up to the bootcamp eventually, I dunno.

I'm not a lawyer. If things are laid out clearly in the fine print for a reasonable person to understand I do think the onus is on the reasonable consumer. But if the debate is over whether this is "reasonable" or not, I won't chime in on that. My person opinion is that even the bigger bootcamps are small businesses in the grand scheme of things and have so few customers in the grand scheme of things that I think the market and actions of the bootcamp will ultimately be their demise if they are not communicating transparently and openly... like I said, bootcamps are shooting themselves in the foot if their numbers look unrealistically good in this environment and it's actually a negative signal in my opinion. Like what in my opinion happened to Codesmith... covering up a majority of ghosting alumni by counting 'LinkedIn verified placements' that boost numbers. Everyone can see with their own eyes their GitHub projects have minimal new projects and minimal activity relative to the activity last year, so regardless of Reddit, and Twitter and LinkedIn and CIRR, etc... the "reasonable consumer" seems to have figured it out on their own.