I was in a boot camp and they hired me for an entry level marketing job.

Lots of boot camps advertise high job placement rates. A year ago, I didn't know a single thing about software development. That's happened to at least one of my fellow bootcamp grads already.Įither way, it's working for me.

Sometimes the client will even buy the developer out of the contract early. There is no guarantee that the company you're placed with will hire you once the two years are up, but the bootcamp company advertises that their devs almost always do get hired directly. Some aren't as happy with their teams as I am, but the company as a whole is great. We still have a group chatroom that we use every now and then to stay in touch. Most of my fellow bootcamp grads got placed at the same company, but in completely different teams working on different projects. They ended up placing me with a large financial organization in my region and I've been very happy with the experience. I did my research to make sure I wasn't getting scammed and the company was legit. I still had to interview with the clients like a typical job, but the bootcamp company set up the interviews for me.īeing locked into work for a company for 2 years was scary, but I had no job and no direction in my life at the time. I'm a bootcamp grad and part of the deal with my bootcamp was signing a contract to agree to work for one of their clients for 2 years after graduating. In the software dev field, who told me that Jr devs were being recruited from this specific bootcamp. I knew people working for the major corporation I currently work for. I chose the bootcamp I attended out of word of mouth. They should be able to demonstrate high placement in software development as well as list their average graduation salaries. I recommend researching the graduation statistics of any boot camp you are looking for. Regardless of the value I percieved the boot camp had, the value perception of the hiring recruiters is far more important. However, that bootcamp was my 'ticket' to finally getting a well paying job in the field because major corporations near me hire directly from the camp I had taken. I don't think a boot camp should be necessary to get into the field.

I think if you've never built your own project, you won't learn from a boot camp as the pace is too fast. I studied coding and built projects on my own for 3 years before doing a boot camp.

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