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"we charge $20k because the median student gets a ~$50k raise"

Horseshit alert if I've ever heard one.

Hack Reactor grad here and former civil engineer. My raise was $40k and I came from a fairly high paying job relative to the rest of the civil engineers I knew. If I had come from an average civil engineering salary the raise would have been more along the lines of $55-$60k.

I was in HR15. I got a $70k raise. Went from working as a Junior accountant making $40k to Software Engineer making $110k (not even counting my $15k signing bonus). The ROI from the program is beyond ridiculous. Best experience of my life.

Yeah, my raise was more along the lines of $140k. But I went from Shift Lead Walgreens to contract Web Developer at Google, so... there's that.

Yeah, im gonna call bullshit on this one too.

You got into google because google actively recruits military vets, not because of the bootcamp experience, which might have helped get you over the hump, but unlikely caused it.

It took you 3 years between shift lead and google.

~your lovely neighborhood ex-people search engine founder.

P.S. thank you for your navy service (in all seriousness)

Google doesn't care about veteran status when it comes to their contracted employees as that pool comes from the ranks of the staffing agencies.

As far as the 3 years since Walgreens goes... - 1 year spent in college for CS before dropping out - 1 year spent self-teaching and working for a startup where I learned what "jQuery" and "AJAX" and "PHP" did =p - 3 months Hack Reactor - 6 months contract with Intel - currently at Google

Right, because you can hire from the graduating class of Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, MIT, etc., and instead you choose a Walgreens Shift Lead from a "coding bootcamp."

Sounds legit.

Parent is being disingenious. They held 5 positions (plus military reserve) over a period of 4 years between "Walgreens Shift Lead" and "Web Application Developer" at a staffing agency.

I, too, got a six-figure "raise" from middle school to today.

Considering there was less than a year between AudioThrift (where I was making ~$20k) and ink on the Google contract... I wouldn't think it's all that disingenuous.

50k to 100k median doesn't seem too far fetched to me. Myself and many people I know were in that range.

Code Fellows grad here. I went from a $50k mechanical engineering job to a $130k web dev job (consulting) directly after completing the program.

HR06 grad here, went from making 25k at a restaurant to 110k at my first job out of HR. Obviously if you're working in the field beforehand the increase won't be as much, but far from horseshit for most grads.

Went from 55K consultant mech eng to 95K. Took a lot of self hustle and the HR marketing and alum outcome results.

If not this would have got to that number after maybe 2 years so definitely helped.

chiming in here - i went from making salary ~80k at google in a non tech role, to 106k salary at a start up working remotely. i'd say with all the benefits at google, i probably made more with bonus, stock, and perks, but i'm happier now with what i'm doing - my work is more fulfilling. the investment i made in HR was worth it to me.

Hack Reactor 25 Grad here... I got a 93k raise after HR working at Google. Left to go to Apple less than a month after that.

Hack Reactor Cohort 32 graduate here -- 50k bump in salary

another HR06 grad here. worked as a customer support rep making $43k/year to $110k/year + 5k signing bonus right out of Hack Reactor.

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