His statement also went somewhat against the marketing message that I’d received from paid bootcamps. This stuck a chord with me, as my gut had been telling me the same thing. After discussing it for a while, he said something that really made me think: “Teaching highly motivated students to code is actually not that hard.” - Dan Sofer So I scheduled a chat with the founder of FAC, Dan Sofer, to better understand their peer-driven model. Their reported hiring rates were impressive. A free bootcamp that didn’t brag about metrics or make any grand promisesĮven though I was skeptical about a lot of the claims paid bootcamps made, it still wasn’t an easy choice.A traditional $15K bootcamp that promised “99% of our graduates get hired at a $100K starting salary”.I got accepted, which left me to choose between the two options: So when I discovered Founders and Coders (FAC)- a free bootcamp in London based around peer-to-peer learning instead of teacher-student learning - I immediately sent them an application. Though I was willing to pay up, I struggled to justify the price to myself, as I suspected I didn’t need all the services they offered. Most of them had price tags between $12K and $18K.
Throughout 20, I spent a lot of my spare time teaching myself basic JavaScript and Python through tutorials I found online.īy 2015, I wanted to speed up my learning and become a professional developer. My hope is that this will give you the tools you need to make decisions for yourself. This is my best attempt at a balanced a perspective on bootcamps. But I ultimately decided to attend a free, peer-to-peer based coding bootcamp instead. I applied to 6 of the top coding bootcamps and got into 5 of them. Luckily, there are cheaper (and completely free) alternatives out there. And that’s before you even factor in the economic opportunity cost associated with not working for three months.Īnd then there are also plenty of people who feel uncomfortable paying so much money to what are typically unaccredited, for-profit schools, in exchange for just twelve weeks of education. If they help you get started on a well-paid career in tech, $15,000 USD might be worth it.īut one thing is for sure: the steep price of coding bootcamps ends up excluding a lot of people. Coding bootcamps have exploded in popularity the past few years.
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