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If the skills gap/demand for 'coders' is correlated with the closing of two 'coding bootcamps' closing; does the author of this post also assume that some spont
by barns-n-moguls 9y ago
If the skills gap/demand for 'coders' is correlated with the closing of two 'coding bootcamps' closing; does the author of this post also assume that some spontaneous, profound event will reverse our current trajectory? That h1b and other visa abuse by primarily tech companies will be permitted to continue, perhaps even expand? Will the direction of 'america first' soon make a 180 as well, perhaps the cost of outsourcing IT/programming will be reduced by imminent unprecedented legislation?
While I understand that the majority of our greatest thinkers can attribute the University of Phoenix to their sudden rise from obscurity, is their any sort of data available displaying how well they educate their students? I have seen far too many students graduate from university with computer science degree, with little to no understanding of the real world, or anything other than the concepts required to learn to program with java(exaggeration), but I can only imagine what sort of education another 'for-profit university' provides all the kids who want to become cool, hip, programmers and make 250k for browsing reddit remotely.
My guess is they spend most of their time/money figuring out how to locate and market to unemployed/underemployed Americans with access to student loans, and little certainty or direction in their lives; while spending zero time coming up with a metric via quiz/survey to determine good candidates for programming jobs, as that would likely reduce profits for said for-profit university.
I don't know much about these bootcamps, but I'm sure some of them do great things, however, I don't think the author of this post considered any of the likely relevant factors to the conclusion they are drawing about a possible trend here. Quality front page nothingburger rambling.