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Seeking the best coding bootcamp worth the money

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

Look up CIRR as well as reviews on this subreddit. There is only one bootcamp right now really delivering outsized outcomes.

u/michaelnovati replied ·
1. CIRR is a great resource and their reports can be trusted, but not many bootcamps do them anymore. 2. The CIRR process itself is robust, but CIRR itself was founded by a Bootcamp Loan company (Ascent - previously named SkillsFund), is supported by Course Report (who supports reviews for Bootcamps), and the board members are all representatives from bootcamps themselves. Finally, CIRR isn't a 501 3c charity because of this conflict of interest and is registered as a business league, like the Chamber of Commerce, the American Dental Association, etc... I'm sure you would call out this bias in other industries for similar organizations, if you yourself weren't biased in promoting CIRR. 3. Just because someone doesn't publish CIRR outcomes it doesn't mean that others don't exist greater than that one bootcamp. That's a flawed logical argument and one used by flat earthers and all kinds of provably false claims. "Because I can't see anything else, nothing else exists". What you should say is "There is only one bootcamp that stands above the rest in published outcomes reports". 4. Finally, "outsized" means money. I really hope this bootcamp's ethos isn't using money as a metric for how good you are as an engineer or that would offend me as someone who spent their entire career trying to support people trying to be the best problems solvers and have the most impact on the world that they could. Focusing on money is short term when you are an an industry with such rapid career growth that you want to not miss the forest for the trees.