Tech Bootcamp Experience/Advice???

Feb 17 4 Comments

So, recently my wife took a new role and her TC has skyrocketed to the point where we have the opportunity to no longer have to rely on both of our incomes. This is a great situation because I have been really frustrated/tired of the direction my career path has led me (Biz Continuity, Ops, etc.) and been wanting to quit and explore a big shift for the last coupon years.

Given our newfound flexibility, I’m considering leaving my current role at BOFA in Ops and exploring a totally different career path. I’m looking at joining on of the full immersive programs at either General Assembly or Flatiron for software engineering or UX/UI design. Going back to university is out of the question cost wise for us, but these bootcamps seem like they would be a good alternative to help me find a different career path at this stage.

Has anyone here had any firsthand experience going through one of these programs? What was it like? How did they do with helping with placement once you finished the program? Any other insights?

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    niPo64

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    niPo64
    i did Flatiron SWE bootcamp

    was working the entire time as PM building software which was more valuable than the bootcamp. U said ur interested in UX/UI so idk how that works exactly. My SWE bootcamp was good to learn object oriented programming, some high level functional programming in JS and being forced to build 5 projects w feedback from instructors.

    Overall Flatiron was pretty legit. Getting into tech is really hard tho. Bootcamp is like 1/5 of what u need or bank on getting lucky. For most its a pretty rough ride.
    Feb 17 3
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      niPo64

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      niPo64
      Yeah, they help u a lot at Flatiron.

      but in the case of SWE (i dont know how much this applies to UI/UX) u still have to pass technical interview & none of the material is covered in the course. it's all stuff from undergrad CS degrees related to Big O, data structures & algorithms. U basically have to do a whole extra self-taught "bootcamp" in leetcode

      good luck!!
      Feb 17
    • OP
      Ah ok, gotcha, thanks for the tip!!
      Feb 17