"Participants will need to complete a binding job search agreement and must be willing to relocate for a job if they reside outside of selected cities."<p>Really? So basically you have no choice but to relocate if they can't place you in a job where you live.<p>Also, they never say what type of programming job they can give or if you have a choice on accepting the job or not. what if you graduate and they get you a job across the country that paying $50K a year? do you have to accept it or pay the tuition fee?<p>also the curriculum posted on the site, isn't that detailed on what you will learn.
The problem I have with this is that a certain percentage of people will get a job anyway. I could, theoretically speaking, set up a school that promises you only pay if you get a job - teach nothing - and then rake in the profits.<p>Where this falls on a line between 100% of people get a job and only the background rate get a job is questionable - and I'd be interested to see the degree of investment that they place in each student because there will be Kelly Criterion that determine how rational it is for them to gamble on that at any particular point of value-add to the student.
The interesting part of this is the "don't pay if you don't get hired" part of the policy. Sure, a couple of the big in-person boot camps have that, but I've never seen it online-only.
At risk of admitting tl;dr... how long do you have to find a job? For example, if I find a job programming 10 years after graduating from an accredited university, do I need to pay them?
The Iron Yard (Orlando, FL) is also a coding school that guarantees a job to its graduates. They don't offer the same "don't pay if you don't get hired" policy, to my knowledge.<p>I can't vouch for the efficacy of either, but learning programming from 0 in N weeks and guaranteed employment seems... unlikely.
"Complete software engineers", eh? Does that mean things required for modern software engineering, like complexity theory and relational calculus?<p>Or are they just skipping over this?
12K$ tuition, a contract that forces you to not only accept any job offers but also relocate for them... eh ok...<p>Most public 2-year collages cost 3-5K (Google, not experience so forgive me if I'm off by a bit, and yes that doesn't cover board and living expenses but neither does the 12K for the 7 months you go to this school) a year, you can get an associate in applied Science degree in programming for about the same costs as that course and most likely lower.<p>This looks more like an indenture scam than a coding school. And while their teaching might be top notch you will probably won't be hired into a top tier company with a 100K+ salary just because you've attended an online course no matter how good it was.<p>At best you will end up working for some filling some low paid job for some generic software company.<p>What sad is that they are also most likely being paid by the companies they arrange jobs for just like any other recruitment company does.<p>Their curriculum is also a bit meh, I really don't see the value of coding schools that don't integrate math into their curriculum. I'm sorry but there's a good reason why college degrees in Comp. Sci or Software Engineering are mostly maths. It's fairly tough facing actual programming challenges without it, now I'm not saying every programmer, eh sorry "coder" has to have MSc level of math but quite a bit of it is actually important into forming how a programmer "thinks" even if they are not directly implementing it in their programming.