Former instructor here: don't spend your money on this. My bootcamp, as far as I know, didn't abuse anyone; just innocently failed to provide the students with

Former instructor here: don't spend your money on this. My bootcamp, as far as I know, didn't abuse anyone; just innocently failed to provide the students with the value. Three months isn't enough time. One year isn't enough time. If you had a good experience at a bootcamp, then you probably would have been fine on your own. Most students at bootcamps are like most students at any school (lazy/cheating) except in the case of the bootcamp, the school has less to offer in the first place and essentially no incentive to grade you rigorously. So even more than usual, you get out what you put in. Bootcamp grads flooding the industry have put such a burden on hiring, performance reviews, and firing, that we now live in a world where "senior" means "second year" and asking someone to perform a tree search on a white board is literally torturing them. Making good software, dealing with other humans, providing value and earning money -- it's not easy; and it's ridiculous to assume that these bootcamps can come anywhere near the (lack of) preparation you get from real schools.