Tech Boot Camps Dangled Well-Paid Jobs. They Didn't Deliver

I had several coworker coming from various bootcamps in the last 5 years or so.<p>Most were good, motivated junior. I found their training sufficient to execute on well written user story with clear acceptance criteria.<p>They knew there way around Git, bash, a bit of AWS or the like. And one framework.<p>Most were able to get promoted. Often I found them driven and resourceful.<p>They did went thought some Income Sharing Program indeed.<p>One issues I saw first hand : successfully local bootcamps works hand in hand with local branch of BigCorp. Everyone is happy.<p>BigCorps close branch , new graduate struggle to find a job. Went from 90% placement to 30%. ( also from cohorts of 8 to class of 30… )<p>Curriculum was fine. But I would recommend examining the relationship of a bootcamps with local company.

As the creator of Boot.dev, I have every reason to dogpile on these articles bashing boot camps. Don&#x27;t get me wrong - there are plenty of shitty boot camps out there, and I think online platforms are, if not a better alternative, at least a better starting point for many people.<p>That said, there are some good boot camps out there that are doing good work. We do need a better way to protect uninformed consumers from getting scammed though - not sure what that looks like yet.

&gt;The very idea that she, a Black person living in Alabama, could make $75,000 a year in the tech industry after just a 10-week boot camp is what drew Aaryn Johnson into Flockjay.<p>Isn&#x27;t this where someone with reasonable critical thinking skills could see that something smells very, very fishy? I think the people who run these snake-oil boot camps are jerks, but I also don&#x27;t have too much sympathy for the people they dupe when what&#x27;s being promised is so outrageous.<p>I&#x27;m not a great chef but I worked in a kitchen as a teenager, so if someone told me I could make $75k cooking after 10 weeks of lessons and I believed them, does that make them a scam artist or me a deserving sucker? In my admittedly shallow opinion, I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s both.

My impression was that most boot camps didn’t provide much training on the one skill set critical for getting many entry level SWE jobs - leetcode.