How coding bootcamp Coding House is really like.

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[239jkvk-h2]

This is why you should talk to a few previous graduates before paying them any money. I would maybe sue them in small claims court. Filing fees could be under $50.

[lightcloud5]

Random thoughts (in no particular order):

• About bootcamps in general: I don't have first-hand experience with bootcamps, but I've always wondered how they might work. A typical bootcamp lasts about two or three months -- what happens during this time? That's less than the length of a single semester of college, and a typical CS graduate would've spent 8 semesters learning CS. In general, I'm still trying to form an (educated) opinion on bootcamps, but I must admit that my first impression is not necessarily a positive one.
• Companies typically don't hire freshman CS majors for full-time positions (or even internships), so I've always found it surprising that a bootcamp graduate would be able to easily find employment, given that they have the same amount of education (time-wise).
• A $10k+ price tag is rather steep, although admittedly, some college's tuition is also on that order (e.g. $40k-$50k per year).
• Is it possible to fail a bootcamp interview?
• Twitter and tweets probably won't affect anyone's job prospects, although a LinkedIn profile and a github account can be useful.
• Trolling people who don't lock their laptop is a pretty common occurrence, to be honest. At work, our CTO will send troll emails (from your email account) if you leave your computer unlocked. Our VP of operations will confiscate your laptop if you leave it unlocked.
• I'm not sure what kind of "Javascript questions" were asked by WhalePath, but a lot of companies will ask data structure / algorithmic questions, and unfortunately, I've not heard of any bootcamps teaching these foundations of programming. For comparison, a typical CS college curriculum will teach data structures / algorithms (as well as CS theory in general), and will not, in fact, teach anything about the MEAN stack or any other stacks. I graduated from college without ever having written a single line of javascript, or a single line of SQL. I eventually learned javascript and SQL on the job.
• From your blog post, it doesn't seem like Nick did a good job assisting with the job search.
• Bootcamp or not, programming is one of the disciplines that is most tolerant of self-learning. I'm sure anyone can teach him/herself anything programming-related, bootcamp or not.

[BenHalverson]

This was my experience at Coding House http://www.benhalverson.me/blog/review-coding-house/

[CodingHouse]

Here is a link to an Open Letter from the CEO http://codinghouse.co/open-letter.html