One thing to consider more than the numbers alone for any program is to find people at the bootcamp who had a similar background/profile to yourself and see how they did.
Two things to consider specifically for Codesmith's numbers:
1. They have more people with some kind of experience before joining than a lot of other programs, and those people tend to make higher salaries coming out, which brings up the median.
2. Students are encouraged to put their open source projects as work experience, so they tend to get more real engineer interview opportunities than other bootcamps. Whereas at other bootcamps people get more junior, apprenticeship opportunities, and internships.
So you really want to try to see what people that look like yourself on paper have done rather than the overall stats.
I have some neutral comments on the project-as-work-experience debate. I was a E7-level Engineer at Facebook for 8 years, interviewed hundreds of people, read thousands of resumes. I'm co-founder of Formation.dev now which does mentoring and coaching and I have worked with many Codesmith grads and alumni and am familiar with their program. We also have recruiters at Formation with 10 years recruiting experience at Facebook as well who review Codesmith applicants to Formation. We also hired a Codesmith alumni who we worked with at Formation as well.
1. If you put something on your resume that says Software Engineer for a "company", where the company is an open source project, it's a little grey area/pushing the limits of what people deem acceptable at top-tier companies. Here's an example of a prolific open source contributor and what their resume looks like with things clearly labelle…
\+1 to all the people who said you probably need coaching and interview prep more than a bootcamp. There are two things to deep dive into, 1. benchmarking your raw skill levels to see if you are interview ready or not yet. 2. you need help getting the interviews.
Given you are applying to 100 jobs a week, I think you absolutely need some help on your approach.
There are different options for all of these goals, [interviewing.io](https://interviewing.io) is good for doing one off interviews without any training or job hunt help, and [Formation.dev](https://Formation.dev) is much more expensive and is your one stop shop (disclosure: I'm co founder) for assessment, skill building, job hunting, negotiation.
There are some other options for coaching, like Pathrise and Outco and you should do your research, and figure out what's right for you, but I would strongly suggest something like t…
If you have been self studying DSA and that’s your main gap, I would absolutely not look at a bootcamp, and instead look at more interview prep. I’m the founder of Formation.dev and an 8 year E7 engineer at Facebook and have helped many bootcamp grads with some work experience level up to top tier jobs. While we support you all the way until you get a new job, and it’s intense,it’s also not cheap so I would carefully look at your options and figure out what’s best for you.
Leetcode is a great way to get some kind of benchmark. For example, you want to be comfortable solving medium level problems to have a chance at top tier roles.
If you haven't already made a decision, check out Formation.dev (disclosure: I'm a co-founder). It might be a good fit and you should look into it and do your own research. It's not a bootcamp with a structured curriculum, nor is it a job hunt only program. We work with people to fill in whatever gaps they have across the board (technical and behavioral), refer you to top tier jobs, help you interview and negotiate, etc... And we work with you on your schedule all the way until you get your new job.
Our last ten placements (at time of writing) were at Plaid, 1Password, GitHub, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Google, Snap, Atlassian. Many of these engineers went to bootcamps in the past.
I also don't really know any other programs like this at the time of writing, perhaps having several private mentors who is are senior engineers at top tier companies and paying them directly?