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why is it unsustainable?
by flamedoge 9y ago
why is it unsustainable?
- jmcgough 9y agoBecause dozens of bootcamps are churning out tens of thousands of candidates a year. There's only so many entry level positions to fight over, especially if they all have essentially the same skill set (full stack web).
- grogenaut 9y agoUniversities churn out teens of thousands of candidates every year as well. Actually there are at least a thousand universities in the us. Let's call it 30 cs students at each. That's 30k. Stanford has 574 last year in undergrad / 4
- romanovcode 9y agoUNI takes around 3-4 years to complete. Bootcamps are like 12-36 weeks. People who graduate from UNI actually know some things.
- grogenaut 9y agoHis point was that thousands of people coming out of bootcamps were saturating the market. My point is I think the market is bigger than that or bootcamps wouldn't exist.
- romanovcode 9y agoMaybe you are correct but I think that bootcamps are created for attracting people to spend their money on a premise that they will get payed very good as programmers.
- jmcgough 9y agoHer point.