4 Reasons Dev Bootcamps Are a SCAM!

Are you learning how to code or program and wondering if you should enroll in a dev Bootcamp like Hack Reactor, General Assembly, Flatiron? In this video, we'll be exploring why dev bootcamps might not be worth your money! After you're done, take a look at my other video on why dev bootcamps are great:    • Are Dev Bootcamps Worth it? 5 Reasons...   Subscribe for more dev, finance, and entrepreneurship hot takes:    / @vu0tran   ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 Intro 0:27 Learn Online For Free 1:43 Don't Teach the Fundamentals 4:31 Bootcamps Overpromise 6:50 Don't Need a Degree For a Job Hi everyone, it’s Vu. So it’s no secret that some of the highest-paying jobs in the world right now are in the tech industry, namely programming! In turn, this has given rise to many, and I mean, MANY different coding boot camps and schools! In this video, we’ll be taking a look at the coding boot camp industry and its structure, and I’ll be going through 4 reasons why I think it may be a SCAM, or at least, not worth your time and money. 5 Ways coding bootcamps are a SCAM: 1. You can already do it all for free - Hack Reactor’s average tuition $17,980. - You’re paying for knowledge that you can get for free. - The caveat is, if you need the traditional structure to motivate you, then this could be a good way, but IMO, you’re just paying $17,780 for motivation. 2. It doesn’t teach you the fundamentals - A major portion of getting a job at a top-tier tech company has solid CS fundamentals. This is where Boot camps fail. - Because it is so condensed and focused on practical programming, it over indexes on it and doesn’t focus enough on CS fundamentals, and these things come out in the tech interview. - Basic things like Big O, data structures, underlying implementation, low level. - Without solid fundamentals, it will hurt you in the middle of your career. It’ll also cap you out on the biggest future opportunities like ML and high-performance computing. You’ll be able to throw up a react app, code monkey. 3. It overpromises itself to be the solution - The silver bullet, all I have to do X and then Y. - Doesn’t say it but implies just do X then Y. - Coding is a journey, and the most successful engineers I know do it intrinsically, not for the money. - We compare ourselves to other people, we see people graduating from Stanford and then make $200k out of college, and we think we just need to go to Stanford. - As a hiring manager and knowing the people we hire, they are good at programming not because they went to a good school, they went to a good school because they were good at programming. 4. You don’t actually need a Bootcamp or a degree to land a job - Some of the best engineers I know don’t actually have a CS degree. I don’t have a CS degree. One of my colleagues at work, one of the most productive iOS engineers I know, has an economics degree. - You talk to new grads; they learned programming as a hobby in high school. . . Keywords: dev bootcamps are a scam || truth about coding bootcamps || coding bootcamps are a scam || are coding bootcamps worth it || are coding bootcamps a waste of money || do coding bootcamps work || is coding bootcamp worth it || coding bootcamp review || coding bootcamps are scams || coding bootcamps worth it || coding bootcamp worth it || what to know about coding bootcamps || is it worth going to coding bootcamp || coding bootcamps waste of money || dev bootcamps || coding bootcamp || coding bootcamps ||

• #education
• #dev_bootcamps_are_a_scam
• #truth_about_coding_bootcamps
• #coding_bootcamps_are_a_scam
• #are_coding_bootcamps_worth_it
• #are_coding_bootcamps_a_waste_of_money
• #do_coding_bootcamps_work
• #is_coding_bootcamp_worth_it
• #coding_bootcamp_review
• #coding_bootcamps_are_scams
• #coding_bootcamps_worth_it
• #coding_bootcamp_worth_it
• #what_to_know_about_coding_bootcamps
• #is_it_worth_going_to_coding_bootcamp
• #coding_bootcamps_waste_of_money
• #dev_bootcamps
• #coding_bootcamp
• #coding_bootcamps