“Oftentimes, boot camps will make these numbers up,” said Jonathan Lau, co-founder of SwitchUp, an independent directory of boot-camp reviews and rankings. Miami-based Wyncode, meanwhile, claims a more modest 90 percent placement rating that includes internships and part-time positions but is measured over just three months.
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At App Academy, a 12-week program based in San Francisco, only a full-time software developer position counts, but its 98 percent placement rate is measured over a yearlong period. Denver's Turing School, meanwhile, touts a placement rate of 98 percent but has a drastically lower completion rate, of 71 percent.Īdditionally, there is no standard for what constitutes a hire or what time frame should be used to measure success. New York City's General Assembly, for example, boasts a 99 percent job placement rate but does not disclose its completion rate.
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For example, schools tend to omit the completion rates for these programs.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Visit the website of any top coding school and you'll find some eye-popping numbers: Some promise to turn people into software engineers in as little as 12 weeks and most claim job placement rates of 97, 98 or 99 percent within months of graduation.īut those claims are largely unaudited by third parties and based on differing standards, which makes it difficult to compare the effectiveness of programs.
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Last March, Hack Reactor and nine other schools committed to releasing annual, audited outcomes, but so far only one of those schools, Flatiron School, has fulfilled the commitment. Students in class at Hack Reactor, a well-known coding bootcamp.