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Developer Bootcamps - Be a Programmer in Two Months!

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday October 15 2014, @03:06PM   
from the considered-harmful dept.

Thexalon writes:

The New York Times has coverage on the phenomenon of Developer Bootcamps, that claim to do in a matter of a couple of months what used to take at least a couple of years for an associate's degree. These cram courses are apparently getting about a 75% job placement rate.

Have any Soylentils either gone through these programs, or worked with others who have? If so, what are your experiences?

• This seems familiar... This seems familiar... (Score: 5, Insightful) by Tramii on Wednesday October 15 2014, @03:27PM

  by Tramii (920) on Wednesday October 15 2014, @03:27PM (#106283)

  I seem to remember a lot of similar programs popping up during the Dot-com bubble that were promising to teach people how develop websites...

  Seriously though, there's no way you can realistically cram 2+ years of training into a few months. (Honestly, it's hard to find a good dev job with just a 2 year degree.) I could understand if you were already a programmer in one language and wanted to learn another in an accelerated fashion. That I could see working. But if you are starting from scratch, there's not many companies looking to hire people with only a few months training and no real world experience.

  Any position that can be filled by random people off the street with two months training will be quickly filled and over-saturated. Soon after that it will be a race to the bottom on who will be willing to put up with the most crap and take the least amount of money. Eventually a few people will rise to the top and the rest will soon be out of a job and looking for the next quick/easy thing to jump on to.

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• Re:This seems familiar... (Score: 3, Interesting) by Sir Garlon on Wednesday October 15 2014, @05:30PM

  by Sir Garlon (1264) on Wednesday October 15 2014, @05:30PM (#106329)

  Any position that can be filled by random people off the street with two months training will be quickly filled and over-saturated.

  That is a fair description of truck driving, and I wouldn't say it's over-saturated, mostly because working conditions are so poor. (Not everyone wants to live out of a truck 5-6 days a week for $50K.) But you're right, the ease of entry into truck driving is what keeps the downward pressure on wages.

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