#Coding bootcamp nyc how to#

In SF, graduates receive an average salary of $100,000 in NY, graduates receive an average salary of $84,000.вЂќ And they put their money where their mouth is: you donвЂ™t have to pay tuition until you get your first job! It seems to be a very well established program that has been around for a while and knows how to get jobs for its students. вЂњ98 % of our graduates have offers or are working in tech jobs.

They have the best job placement and average salary rates.

Another indicator: I was told that thereвЂ™s about 4 hours of вЂњafter hoursвЂќ once the day ends at 6, and I should be able to go to the gym if I keep it under 30 minutes during after hours. They even let you sleep there, which should be an indicator of the types of hours people put in.

The curriculum is very comprehensive and difficult.

Like people with strong analytic/science backgrounds, and people coming out of top colleges.

They have the lowest acceptance rate (~5%) and are serious about taking really smart people.

I think the placement rates were about 85%, and average starting salaries around $80k. The job placement rates and starting salaries seem pretty good.

TheyвЂ™re a pretty well established program, and have been around for a while.

It seems that most people donвЂ™t enter Dev Bootcamp having done a few months of tutorials already, and that the curriculum is a little less in depth.

They seem to be geared a little bit more towards вЂњbeginner beginnersвЂќ rather than вЂњintermediate beginnersвЂќ.

They have a yoga break around noon for about an hour. They want their students to be able to empathize with customers (be better product people), with coworkers (be better communicators) and other people (be better citizens).

They take empathy seriously, which I think is cool.

With that said, IвЂ™ll give my impression of the four bootcamps I looked into, and then talk about my decision and why I made it. They usually have a bunch of companies they work with to recruit.

After the program is over, thereвЂ™s some sort of Demo Day, and they work hard to help you find a job.

The curriculum involves going over the basics for the first 7 or 8 weeks, and then focusing on personal/group projects during the last third of the program.

The size of the groups are similarly sized: 25-40 students, with a student-teacher ratio of about 7/8-1.

Then people might get dinner or something, and then come back to work until about 9 or 10 pm. Maybe one more iteration of that before the day officially ends at 6pm. Come back, do another lecture and pair session. You get there, start the day off with a short lecture, break off into groups to pair program and solve problems, with the instructors available if you need any help. This prep phase is supposed to take a few hours of work per day, so they say you could still work at your normal job during the prep phase. They want everyone to start the program with a certain baseline understanding of things like HTML, CSS, JS, Ruby, Rails, Git, the command line etc.

ThereвЂ™s a prep phase, where youвЂ™re given links to a bunch of tutorials to do about a month before the program starts.

But students often stay late (until 9 or 10pm), and the instructors also stick around to help out.

They run from 9am-6pm, Monday through Friday.

This seems to be true for the more well-known bootcamps, but might not be for other ones. TheyвЂ™re all about $12k for 12 weeks and have good placement rates (80-90%) and average starting salaries ($80k). Most bootcamps seemed to be pretty good investments.The students seem like a bunch of smart 20-somethings who are eager and motivated to learn to code.The instructors seem to be good at teaching, and seem to care about the students and willing to go the extra mile for them.People often talk about how it was such a life changing experience and how the people they met were so amazing. The instructors and students all seem to be genuinely good people.However, my (and your) job is to choose the best among an array of good options. IвЂ™d probably be happy attending any of them. YouвЂ™ll be happy to hear that al l of the bootcamps I looked into seem great. I did a good amount of research the past few weeks, so I figured IвЂ™d publish my findings in hope that itвЂ™ll be useful to others. I often run into issues that take me hours/days, and having the guidance of a bootcamp will reduce that to mere minutes. IвЂ™m 21, reached a wall in my journey towards becoming a web developer, and thus started looking into attending a bootcamp.