The West Coast Hack Reactor Remote 19-week cohort that graduated on October 9, 2025 is the first Hack Reactor cohort that I know of where 100% of its graduates failed to find a paid SWE job within 6 months of graduation from Hack Reactor.

Do you know how many people have signed up for cohorts since then? If any? Like I've been researching Codesmith for 4 years and their student GitHub repos have very little signs of life relative to before. And they did a 3 month pause on new cohorts, breaking their years long tradition of overlapping cohorts and junior/senior model. I know Launch School cut back from 3 cohorts for 2026 to 2 cohorts, which is their first reported decline, but they also aren't really a "bootcamp" and have never had a ton of students.

Curious why you signed up? Like if you expected a job despite the negative sentiment, or if you just wanted to learn?