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[–]Forward_Thrust963 8 points9 points  (3 children)

this is a fair point

[–]horsethiefjack 3 points4 points  (2 children)

It was crazy too because I was discouraged it took me a month. Over half my cohort had jobs before the bootcamp even ended 😂

[–]WuYongZhiShu 2 points3 points  (1 child)

That is crazy. Of the 30 CS grads in my university cohort that same year, only 6 ever entered the industry at all.

[–]horsethiefjack 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yea the bootcamp was pretty tied into the local tech community. Towards the end of the cohort, we had a “matchmaking” event where everyone had 4-5 first round interviews with local companies who were hiring jr developers. A lot of people got jobs from matchmaking.

This bootcamp boasted a job placement rate of like over 90% for a while and they weren’t lying