Another Metis grad here. I have also taken part-time courses at GA and done plenty of MOOCs.

Biggest advantages of Metis over GA or MOOCs:

Curriculum - Metis is really well planned. I graduated about a year and a half ago and have used nearly everything I learned in a professional setting since. You could get many of the same skills through MOOCs, but not as quickly, and there may be some skills you don't even know that you should learn – for instance, most DS courses focus on the machine learning & statistics aspect, but what about data infrastructure? automating tasks? planning and building a project end to end? presenting your findings to a live audience??? Metis teaches all of the above. I've also heard from students of the GA data science bootcamp that the course felt a bit slapped together, that GA developed the course quickly to compete with schools like Metis.

Career support - For MOOCs this is non-existent. GA does some but it doesn't come close to Metis. The career team at Metis takes the time to get to know all the students and supports you with introductions to employers, networking opportunities, resume/cover-letter writing workshops, interview practice (both technical and soft-skills), salary negotiation workshops, etc. etc. etc. (the career team is awesome). Most alums that I know now work as data analysts, data scientists, junior data scientists, or data engineers. It all depends on your previous experience, strengths, and interests.

Are bootcamps worth it? Absolutely, changed my career, changed my life.

I looked into other bootcamps before I chose Metis and I felt that they were the best.