9 questions you must ask coding bootcamps (by an ex-student & ex-employee)

Choosing a coding bootcamp is tough. More now than ever. Before COVID, you just chose one in your local area. Today, they’re all online — so you can go pretty much anywhere.

There’s a fair bit of content on the internet about how to choose coding bootcamps. Most of it is written by coding bootcamps, which is a bit of an issue.

I…

• am a coding bootcamp graduate
• worked in Senior Management for a coding bootcamp for five years
• have provided services to coding bootcamps …so I know my way around the industry pretty well.

I’m a neutral – I’m not affiliated with any coding bootcamp now.

I hoped it would be useful to share my honest feelings about how to decide where to go.

Not all bootcamps are created (even close to) equal

If you wind back the clock a little over a decade, there wasn’t really any such thing as a coding bootcamp.

But now there are literally hundreds.

The issue is that many of them make the same kinds of sounds — “we offer extensive job support”, “expert trainers”, that kind of thing. The trouble is, anybody can say it. But…