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0 pointsgen2204y ago0 comments

FWIW, many teachers are only at bootcamps for a year or two before moving on to work for normal companies. I didn’t go through a boot camp, but I do work with people who did and were teachers at those boot camps before working here.

From what I understand, teaching is generally seen as a positive signal (if the boot camp is a good one), because it means they know the material well enough to teach it.

I can totally imagine the opposite becoming true (teaching is a negative signal), creating a positive feedback loop in the opposite direction, and turning the boot camp into a pyramid scheme.

I guess it all depends on the credibility of the boot camp, kind of analogous to universities, as a sibling commenter points out.

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bdcravens4y ago

This all may be true, but hand waves away the point: students don't know this going in; they assume the high cost will get them a developer salary much sooner than is true. The marketing should be more transparent about this, and if it were, how many students would rethink the costs with a longer ROI?

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0 pointsgen2204y ago0 comments

From what I understand, teaching is generally seen as a positive signal (if the boot camp is a good one), because it means they know the material well enough to teach it.

I can totally imagine the opposite becoming true (teaching is a negative signal), creating a positive feedback loop in the opposite direction, and turning the boot camp into a pyramid scheme.

I guess it all depends on the credibility of the boot camp, kind of analogous to universities, as a sibling commenter points out.

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bdcravens4y ago

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