3 ms·
I was involved with one of the more reputable code schools a few years ago, my information is out of date and not necessarily representative but firsthand. It'
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
I was involved with one of the more reputable code schools a few years ago, my information is out of date and not necessarily representative but firsthand.
It's not really true that the students at these were trying to fast-track into highly paid jobs per se. Half or more were skilled professionals with masters degrees. A lot of high-burnout fields represented: disproportionate (and alarming) number of teachers and nurses in there, as well as like ex-goldman analysts, tons of mechanical and civil engineers as well.
Everyone assumes these were full of like, bartenders chasing money (which there is nothing wrong with that either) but in my experience it wasn't true at all. It was mostly late 20s-early 30s professionals who were looking to change to another skilled career, mostly due to burnout, poor fit in the first one, or more autonomy.
> turns out you cannot easily get into a tech job doing some simple cookie cutter courses.
No, you can't easily get into a tech job from these courses. But more interesting to me it showed that you can do a tech job from doing these courses. I've worked with code school grads a lot after that as well, in fact I seek them out when hiring. It's true that a fresh code school grad has a narrow slice of competence and needs more and different kinds of support than other junior devs. But they can succeed if given it, and ones a couple years or more into their careers tend to punch well above their weight in my experience. It's a group that is basically self-selecting for confidence and calculated risk-taking. They do well.
- npalli 4y agoThanks for sharing, good to know. I think it also speaks to the shady underside of the coding camps that they always seem to advertise some random person doing some side jobs, then they do a coding bootcamp and boom! they are into tech. Literally a couple of days ago[1], Austen Allred (the guy running BloomTech getting sued) was tweeting how some housewife has landed a tech job after being out of the workforce for 15 years. People would be lot more careful if they knew that 1/2 the cohort is people with Master's degrees. [1] https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1636176434380296194 https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1636176434380296194
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- pavlov 4y agoA housewife out of the workforce for 15 years can have a master’s degree…
- Karrot_Kream 4y ago> Everyone assumes these were full of like, bartenders chasing money (which there is nothing wrong with that either) but in my experience it wasn't true at all. It was mostly late 20s-early 30s professionals who were looking to change to another skilled career, mostly due to burnout, poor fit in the first one, or more autonomy. Yeah I was surprised when I realized most of the bootcamp grads I met were elite school graduates in things like BioE or Industrial Engineering who wanted to transition to tech. They had worked in their fields and wanted a change so they had the money saved up to do a bootcamp. It was no surprise to me that they did well in tech as they were already from STEM programs in great schools anyway. I've heard anecdotally (no real proof) that later cohorts started drawing more of the "bartender chasing money" types (again nothing wrong with them) which made the competition for the schools a lot harder.