Springboard Boot Camp

Hi, Springboard is a little under the radar yeah! They had a big growth push a couple years ago and have been quieter since. I haven't done it personally and I don't know if they have made changes in the past few years, but their philosophy is to "specialize" in mentor support and not on content. So they work with others for content (again this was 2020ish-2021 and I believe this is still the model), for example licensing content from Colt Steele, who makes great beginner content. What they focus on is having mentors help you and review your code and the system to scale that mentorship to thousands of students while maintaining the quality. This is why they offer so many different tracks. If they can license raw content, find mentors in those areas, then they can expand to new tracks easily. I believe their "job guarantee" does require a lot of fine print, like minimums to hit and track to maintain the guarantee. I don't think it's sketchy fine print, it's just that they need you committed to the job hunt and not trying to find loopholes to get a free course. Anyways, hopefully you'll hear from some students who did it, but that's a little bit of color on their company strategy. Don The Developer covered them as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1jSkChYm8U

Everything is always in between right. The "negative take" is that you are getting content similar to a Udemy course and paying to have mentors help you through it, and that's expensive! The "positive take" is that underlying content is basically free all over the internet so they want to allocate more resources to better mentors than more bootcamps (that rely on current and former students to grade work). So I think it depends on how you value their mentorship style. Like bootcamps often have many former students who just did materials helping you through it. Springboard has industry engineers who are less closely connected to the program, helping you through it.