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Man, I have so much to say about this...where do I even begin. I attended a bootcamp myself (hack reactor). My experience overall was very good and I owe my (6
by game_the0ry 3y ago
Man, I have so much to say about this...where do I even begin.
I attended a bootcamp myself (hack reactor). My experience overall was very good and I owe my (6 figure) income and current career to it - the students and instructors were both impressive. I was in a dead end career and now I have a new world opportunity opened up to me.
But that being said...
I think a couple of things killed the bootcamp model:
- Saturation. Insatiable student demand + no acceptance criteria (anyone can get in) means there is robust market for bootcamps. Hack Reactor (and a few others, like Fullstack Academy and App Academy) mitigated this somewhat bc you needed to pass a (difficult) interview to get accepted.
- Fraud. Bc there is no "accreditation" so anyone could star a bootcamp, including scumbags.
So I have mixed feelings.
Hopefully, the (terrible) job market will flush out some of the shit down the toilette, but I hate that innocents, people just trying to improve themselves, got caught up in the blast radius.