Coding Boot Camp is generally 3 months of intensive training that focuses on popular full stack like MEAN. I’ve heard that 70~90% of the students lands a job at the end of the course. What’s interesting is that the students demonstrate their final project to an actual IT company and gets a job offer on the spot… incredible! It generally costs $10~20k which can be easily paid off on the first year salary that’s usually $60k+ (depending on the area).
If one can land a job in 3 months as a developer then why would anyone go to college? The whole point of going to college is to get a job and seems like this would be a super short cut. Many say that non-degree person gets paid less and that’s generally true. However, let say college student who spent 4 years in college (w/ a big dept) vs another who spent 4 years with real work experiece (while getting paid). Who do you think will get paid more? I would say the guy w/ 4 years of experience by 20% or so…maybe even 50% depending on their skill level.
For the most part, college educated developers would have a more rounded and robust education which should provide a baseline for being able to be flexible. They know more than just the specific framework they would be taught in. For example, my college education was unix based, but the foundation was solid enough that I’ve been able to transition to mainframe to client server to web based to the hybrid work I do know. I was trained in C, COBOL and PL1, but also got a solid foundation that has allowed me to expand my skillset into work in Visual Basic, vbscript, PHP, Java and C#. I’ve known a number of people who went to technical schools (essentially a formalized boot camp approach), and they’ve struggled mightily with transitioning to new languages/approaches/platforms.
It may be true for the majority, and indeed, I have gone to a technical college to prepare for a career. But my primary goal has always been to learn whether or not it was with the intent of utilizing the knowledge to earn an income from it.
For example, my pottery, creative writing, herbs, etc. classes were more for the “fun” in learning about an interest than they were taken with employment in mind.
Anyway. . . .
The technical program I participated in (medical field) had a very high rate of graduates finding employment. In fact, it was the employers that contacted graduates with offers.
But note I said “graduates”. A great many of the students that enrolled in the program never graduated (IIRC Organic Chemistry alone culled at least 50%)
I have never attended a Code Bootcamp.
Do you know if they also have a high dropping out rate?