So, I had a couple of questions about Dev Bootcamp as it seems like a great idea and the cost is definitely in balance with what you get but...
Do we know how many of the people are getting actually job offers after completing this program? Obviously that's partly on the individual but I would be interested to see the statistics.
Secondly, it seems like this program is no longer "Free". I noticed that tuition is around 11K and they give you back 5K of that. I think the last session used to be 5K and they will give you the 5K back if you get recruited. Can someone confirm this?
The question is, are these people actually learning what they are doing, or are they just creating muscle memory on certain tasks... kind of like a 2 year old seeing patterns in a word and being able to identify it despite have no idea how to read.
The only way I can learn something well is by doing it many times. That's how I learned ruby, js, vi, regex, etc. But if this program is able to present a good scope of topics and get the people to really hammer on writing code from scratch (not copy and paste coding), then I can really see this being successful.
Humans have amazing potential to learn and be productive when we get into a distraction free, focused 'zone'. If this program can push people to reach this point and take full advantage over the course of several weeks (without burning out), I can see them doing extremely well on an interview and realistically getting junior positions.
30 companies interviewed 20 students this last Friday for 5 minutes each.
On average each student was invited to 6 companies for further interviews. This experiment only works if we're totally transparent so I'll be updating this community and our blog with numbers as soon as we have them.
The spring's tuition was 6k, and 100% refunded on hire. The summer is 11k with 5k refunded on hire. Summer will be 2 weeks longer and will have at least twice as many mentors per student.
Thanks Kabuks! I am glad the team is being transparent with the numbers and that you clarified the rise in tuition.
At 11K this still provides a lot of value. Does the team do any exit interviews for the graduates? I would also love to know what percentage of the class went from 0 programming experience to junior developer (I am assuming these types of people would be very rare like an overnight success).
Yes, we did an exit interview, we're pulling together the numbers and will post them in the next week.
We're definitely very interested in your second question too. It's going to be a few weeks before folks get offers and accept them, but I'm 100% committed to these numbers being transparent. Stay posted.
Do we know how many of the people are getting actually job offers after completing this program? Obviously that's partly on the individual but I would be interested to see the statistics.
Secondly, it seems like this program is no longer "Free". I noticed that tuition is around 11K and they give you back 5K of that. I think the last session used to be 5K and they will give you the 5K back if you get recruited. Can someone confirm this?