and I would say part of the phenomena - and this might sound corny but I will explain - is how bootcamps are a personal journey.īy that I mean the entry point for most participants are all different, the expectations for most participants are all different, the experience for most participants are all different (some students work harder than others), and the outcomes are all different. I think they tend to mask the huge gulf between the several schools that a fantastic investment and the many more that aren't.
I don't think bootcamp review sites (except possibly Yelp) "help guide the conversation". That would yield some data, but the data wouldn't be useful for an entrepreneur actually considering taking on funding. Similarly, what good are "overall stats" that average the results of random respondents from world class institutions, low-end operations, experiments and all kinds of other projects? It would be kind of like looking at "overall stats" for a bucket of participating businesses who had taken money from YC, Techstars, unknown funds, crowdfunding, banks or their parents. Considering the effects of selection bias on top of those of the small sample size you mentioned before I suspect they're essentially useless for someone making a decision. List the stat and link to or summarize or link to their explanation of how it was calculated.Īs for your own independent surveys, they are almost certainly far less accurate than that of the schools themselves. That's actually one of the key pieces of information I myself was looking at. It's extremely useful to include self-reported salaries and hiring stats. Are you aware of the legal trouble a school misrepresenting its numbers would be open to? The person who emailed me did seem to express some vague interest in adding that kind of information later but two years later it's still not there.Īt least for me, the main reason I avoided the "bootcamp review" sites is that I didn't feel any would have given me useful guidance as a prospect (whereas Quora, Yelp and HN threads would have if they'd been around when I applied). They offer a comparison only of the costs of the various options, not the value.
I hadn't looked at any of these sites in a long time, but to the best of my knowledge, very little has changed. How about listing average salaries, listing graduation rates, linking to yelp profiles and linking to student directories for those schools confident enough in their outcomes to share them? > By completely ignoring the issue of student outcomes, your resource does prospective students a disservice. It lead to several sites emailing me and asking me to write a review or to link to their sites. I wrote a fairly detailed review on my blog.
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