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Having done an online boot camp I can say at least part of it is not wanting to spread negative feedback that might devalue your investment.

I imagine many people go into these programs to gain skills to get a job. If afterwards you talk about how the program failed to prepare you for that you're shooting yourself in the foot.

As to why there aren't more positive reviews - maybe it's related?

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> As to why there aren't more positive reviews - maybe it's related?

I would look at the absolute lack of glowing 6/5 star reviews about how amazing these boot camps are as proof of exactly the opposite.

There are presumably thousands of grads from the largest programs. If you can only get 50 or 100 people to write a review about how your $10,000 course helped them land a job, it should be a huge red flag about the actual value.

I don't know about that. It's education. I've never written a review for my university experience, although I'm sure somewhere there's a venue for me to do so.

We got a lot of this in college. Thankfully it's big enough and I'm ambivalent enough that I can say my college education was largely worthless and the good parts often far less good than they could have been. At a 'good' school.

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