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Fair enough, but I don't see how any of this has to do with the topic at hand, which was boot camps are for suckers. I wouldn't consider the junior developers who are working out well in the parents reply suckers - sounds like they're employed and working out well.

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They bought a product (bootcamp) in the pursuit of a career in software engineering. Odds are they aren't equipped for more than a series of jobs doing webdev scut work.

"Suckers" might be a bit strong, but their expectations may suffer a certain misalignment with reality.

That's a bit presumption of you, perhaps all they wanted to be was someone who does 'webdev scut work'.

It's possible! But I've also talked to a number of bootcamp grads and students. Most of them have dreams of doing more than basic webdev.

Of course, it's possible that those were outliers. The population is clearly non-zero, though.

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