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I hire data scientists, my experience interviewing through a boot camp for a year: the top 1-2 students in each class are great, the remaining 10-15 are anywher
by rm999 10y ago
I hire data scientists, my experience interviewing through a boot camp for a year: the top 1-2 students in each class are great, the remaining 10-15 are anywhere from under-qualified to woefully unqualified. The one guy I hired from the bootcamp, easily the highest quality applicant from three classes we evaluated, told me he learned essentially nothing. He told me his teachers had no real qualifications or work experience. The students are charged 15K for 6 weeks, about the same amount I spent on my entire masters. We were charged 10K to hire him.
Bootcamps are a good idea in theory, but the execution makes it clear most of them are cash grabs and part of a disturbing culture in this country to massively profit off post secondary school education (at the expense of the students).
- thaumasiotes 10y ago> The students are charged 15K for 6 weeks, about the same amount I spent on my entire masters. Assuming you're going for a job, paying $X to get a job in six weeks sounds like much better value than paying $X to get a job in two years.
- yompers888 10y agoI think parent comment is suggesting a greater value because 15k bought him a whole year or two of supervised self-improvement, whereas it lasts only 6 weeks in the boot camp environment.
- rm999 10y agoYes exactly. I only brought up the money to transition to my rant about how I think bootcamps are a cash grab :) I also think thaumasiotes is missing my overarching point, which is that the data science bootcamps didn't actually provide much value to their students.