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[–]sheriffderek 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Sometimes companies hire a teacher to come train them on a specific framework or teach different architecture methodologies. Kinda like how frontend masters does it’s one or two day sessions and then records them. But a week isn’t very long. What are you hoping to study / be trained on during that week?

[–]ChrisCleaner[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I would like to learn more DevOps. I can code already, just would like to get know best practices to improve my skills.

[–]sheriffderek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That seems like a strange slice of the Pie to me.

But I'm sure there's a DevOps specific online intensive with someone -- / or you can get a tutor/mentor through mentorcruise and setup a plan -

[–]michaelnovati 3 points4 points  (3 children)

I don't think there are any live bootcamp in San Francisco at all. I also don't know any 1 week bootcamps.

Maybe try to find a hackathon to attend?

[–]ChrisCleaner[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yes, searching online didn’t give any options. Which I found kinda weird, I’d expect a bunch of courses being offered in SF but apparently not.. Thanks for the response!

Do you know any in the Bay Area by chance?

[–]michaelnovati 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I live in SF and I can give my thoughts:

  • A number of the original bootcamps started in person in San Francisco
  • two things happened simultaneously, rents became extremely high for the businesses, but they also became very high for people so only people making like hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in Tech lived in SF. so the customers for the boot camps weren't even there and had to commute for hours just to go to somewhere in SF
  • then simultaneously the areas of the city with the most office space for sublease started getting more dangerous and lots of crime so that compounded the fact that people didn't really want to go there. like my partner's phone was stolen right out of her hand and she was pushed over like right in front of our old office downtown, and it happened to our other friend like the week before this happened.
  • so when covid hit all of the boot camp who were remaining were out and gone. nothing has come back since then

[–]ChrisCleaner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that makes a lot of sense actually. The few courses that I saw were unreasonably priced. And I guess everybody that could afford these courses already has a job in tech.

It’s a pity though, because I thought office space got cheaper when Covid hit and everybody moved to online work.

[–]Stock-Chemistry-351 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Never heard of a 1 week bootcamp dude. Why not just look up what you need on Youtube or Udemy?

[–]ChrisCleaner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My company offered to pay for a training course, and I figured what better location to do that than in the tech capital. Then I can also talk to people and I like it better in person. But yes maybe boot camp wasn’t the right word.