Would love to hear thoughts regarding the boot camp vs. higher ed question. In many cases it's not one or the other, but I'm curious where people think education is headed.
Generally you can trust decent grades in a CS program no matter what the reputation of the school is. If someone can write a compiler, or operating system, or whatever else they specialize in, they can be free-standing with their learning. I haven't found this to be the case with "Non-technical degree plus bootcamp." Maybe the hit rate for boot camp grads is 1/3 that of CS? Perhaps it's not a fair comparison, but it's been my experience.