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Let's say that startups do indeed become less attractive as time goes on. Do coding bootcamps prepare their students for jobs at BigCorp?

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I'm not convinced they prepare them for startups.

As a coding bootcamp grad, I agree. I think bootcamps are better for mid to large companies actually where you will get mentorship and processes to help you graduate from being an apprentice to a contributing member of your team.

Many of my bootcamp colleagues at small stage startups regretted the decision.

Given the stacks at BigCorps (at least here in Chicago), I would say "it depends". Working in an enterprise environment where everything is older and battle-tested, probably not, given most of the camps gloss clean over the details, opting for training against the MEAN stack or variants thereof as far as front-end options go, that would enable someone coming out of these camps to hit the ground running.

It'll be an interesting observation to see if that comes to pass, but insofar as I'm concerned, they're training front-end students for startups building platforms.

Launchcode certainly does[0]

[0] https://www.launchcode.org

This is the first time I've heard about this but I really like what I'm seeing based on what's on the site. This sounds like a really good way to get the candidate you need if you're a BigCorp. I wonder what the acquisition cost of going through Launchcode is vs traditional channels?

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