This question gets asked often and as usual there's no simple answer as it depends on you. How much experience do you have? What stack do you want to work in? What are your goals (a job as a SWE, a job in another field, to learn) and what type of company do you want to join?
You can narrow your search pretty quickly to a handful of consistently well reviewed bootcamps, but there might be smaller bootcamps - or other things other than a bootcamp - that might be ideal for you depending on the above.
Without knowing the answers to the questions above though you can't really narrow it down as different bootcamps do different things for different people.
u/MegaSuperdudeX wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I have little to no experience in coding. I had taken a course on html years ago, but have become highly interested in learning again. And im actually serious about it.
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Ok great, Codesmith is good for people who are more advanced in their journey so I would probably look at prep before going there. I would suggest doing some more intense self teaching or doing a free or cheap bootcamp prep course (freeCodeCamp, App Academy Open, Codesmith CSX, CSPrep, etc...) to test the waters first before committing to a bootcamp. Most bootcamps do full stack, but lean front end.
u/swinetacular1 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Cant trust reviews... they are a business. Some of the ones where I am have get so many fake reviews done. And any money back guarantees are next to impossible to take advantage of because the criteria to qualify are insane. Also one camp near us has a budget for paying graduates
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I totally agree there are a lot of bootcamps taking advantage and misleading people. I don't think ALL are not to be trusted entirely. Some of them are non-profits, like Ada Academy in Seattle.
One counter point to "they are a business". So if a person completing any program that helps them transition to a new job paying $X more. Then there is value created by the transition. $X PER YEAR adds up to a lot, and it makes sense for a business to get a cut of that value that is created. I 100000% agree some bootcamps are not good intentioned, but in THEORY, I don't think a business making some money while you make a lot more money is bad if it truly works at generating that value for you.