This probably depends on who you are. Like all organizations in higher learning, the boot camps serve two functions. The first, and what we'd probably like to think is the most important, is the value-adding function of education. The second is to serve as gatekeepers of their brand so that they maximize the marketability of their graduates, and thus encourage would-be applicants to come their way. Ideally you'd be able to offer such a stellar program that you have no one getting C's because they know all the material. In that case, yes, it's great that no one graduates with C's. And employers may not even care that the school is cruel and fast to shed students who are dragging. But for potential studenta, that situation is much worse. The school is much less valuable to students if they achieve their numbers by tough admissions and low retention, because then it's much less likely that the boot camp provides much in the way of education.

I think the point was not so much whether it's good or bad but that by weeding out the possibility of a C student from being in the bootcamp pool to begin with, it means the success of bootcamp interview candidates will be higher than any given college student just because they're better/more skilled-- not because they did bootcamp over university. I.e. you're comparing apples to oranges because bootcamp-educated candidates might actually be a more skilled subset of the overall candidate pool.

Perhaps we should think of graduating as simply 'finishing' the curriculum.

If you paid course fees and did the work, you should be able to walk out and say 'I am a C student at RoR' with a certificate.

A company which hires through boot camps can ask for grades and choose to hire or not.

A C level student with other skills may still be valuable because of other skills they have and employable for junior or non dev roles.

Setting such a high bar pretty much just seems to be a way to manipulate data for marketing purposes.

When I first read your comment I thought you meant the language C.

My reaction was, "Well we would likely reduce the rate at which security vulnerabilities are introduced in new code."

Then I reread it. :-)

(And I criticize C with love. I used it for years and recognize it as a product of its original purpose.)

Depends on how rigorous the curriculum is. The problem here however, is that although colleges typically are overseen and expected to let c students graduate, bootcamps can set as high a standard as they want.

Only the cream of the crop should get to graduate?