Coding bootcamps are big business these days. They are everywhere. Seemingly, they offer a quick-fix to someone looking for a career change who knows nothing about coding. However, is it really that easy? For that matter, are coding bootcamps sustainable as business ventures? Consider a recent article for Wired titled “In 2016, The Coding Bootcamp Bubble Is Bound to Burst.”
Issie Lapowski of Wired writes, “Coding bootcamps had their moment in 2015. They were celebrated by everyone from President Barack Obama to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton to Republican Senator Marco Rubio as one-way tickets to the middle class in the 21st century. The Department of Education even rolled out a new pilot program that would allow students to use federal financial aid for some bootcamps and so-called massively open online courses, or MOOCs. But in 2016, the bootcamp bubble is bound to burst. The fact is, thanks to all of this attention, the number of bootcamps around the country has ballooned. So have the number of graduates. And while many of these schools are reputable institutions with solid relationships in the tech industry, others are, like so many for-profit schools before them, just jumping on the bandwagon and offering a less than satisfactory education in the process. The more people are encouraged to enroll in these bootcamps, the more likely a good percentage of them will find themselves six months later out several thousand dollars and out of a job. And as financing options for these bootcamps proliferate, and more students take on debt to pay for them, the model will only become more controversial. Another threat facing the coding bootcamp world is the fact that many tech recruiters are still skeptical of bootcamp graduates. They’ll come around eventually, but for the people who are putting their lives and careers on hold to take these courses today, change may come too late.”
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