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Hi there -- I'm a cofounder at Hack Reactor. I agree with your headline: this is a much bigger problem than people realize. The solution is CIRR (http://cirr.
by shawndrost 9y ago
Hi there -- I'm a cofounder at Hack Reactor.
I agree with your headline: this is a much bigger problem than people realize. The solution is CIRR (http://cirr.org http://cirr.org). CIRR schools -- including Hack Reactor -- generally report outcome statistics that are similar to Course Report's third-party industry averages (~70% placement rate), whereas non-CIRR schools generally report 9X%.
It sounds like you've gotten the a couple of wrong impressions about Hack Reactor. No offense taken (thanks for the kind words too!) and I hope you don't mind if I issue some corrections:
We don't use out-of-date statistics in our marketing, and we really don't market based off of statistics at all. It is hard to do so given the problem you pointed out. If you see out-of-date statistics anywhere, it is a grave error that I would love to correct. Please screenshot and email to shawn@hackreactor.com. Current statistics are on our site and cirr.org.
Students in our remote program receive the same career services that our other campuses do: about a third of student-facing staff work full-time on helping alums get jobs. The program is not very large (~20 students per cohort) and is one of our better-performing "campuses".
- adamzerner 9y ago> third-party industry averages (~70% placement rate) The ~70% placement rate seems to refer to what percentage of applicants get full time jobs within 6 months of graduating. For within 3 months of graduating, the placement rate seems to drop to 30-40%. (See https://cirr.org/data https://cirr.org/data)
- shawndrost 9y agoI was referring to Course Report's third-party industry averages, 75.2% within 180 days. https://www.coursereport.com/reports/2016-coding-bootcamp-job-placement-demographics-report https://www.coursereport.com/reports/2016-coding-bootcamp-jo... What you said is also true though.