Ask HN: If you worked with a grad from a code bootcamp, how effective were they?

91 points

12 years ago

A close friend of mine is deciding which code bootcamp to attend. Talking to graduates has been useful. But if the goal is to be a good developer that people want to work with, the most objective source of information for applicants (and hirers) is probably previous graduates' coworkers.

If you've worked with a bootcamp grad, please take this < 1 minute survey. Results will hopefully be really helpful for a lot of people, and they'll be available for download in their entirety.

http://fluidsurveys.com/s/coding-bootcamp-grad-peer-assessment/

Disclosure: I have a secondary motive in that I'm a cofounder of Statwing, and I think the results of this will be a really interesting dataset to let people play around with (like the Stack Overflow survey: https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey). I do in fact have a close friend making this decision right now, though.

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