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A sincere question: Do people ever NOT graduate from these types of bootcamps? I'm asking as IT Manager / Engineering Manager person. When it's on someone's CV, I never know how t value it.

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The graduation rate is irrelevant, as a very selective bootcamp that works hard to make sure everyone learns and has a 100% grad rate will put out higher quality folks than a dev-mill that doesn't care what folks do and has a 75% grad rate. The base fact is bootcamps vary in quality. As a hiring manager it would be in your best interest to take a day to visit the bootcamps you see on resumes and get a sense for what goes on there, you will get a very quick sense of which ones are legit and which ones are not. (I say this only as a graduate of a bootcamp)

That sounds fare, however the reality is this is a global market: I asses a CV from a Mexican guy/girl who went through a US bootcamp while I'm a hiring manager in Berlin. An actual coding chalenge still helps though.

My only experience is with one bootcamp, but people rarely don't graduate. That wasn't because they just pushed people through, but filter people out at the beginning. A month of online prework helped filter out those who couldn't handle it, as well as a test at the end of it.

If you were someone who wasn't keeping up, they might hold you back (there was two sessions, junior/senior phases). And in a rare case, you may get asked to leave.

Actually, when I was still in school I was taking part in a Pascal course. I wonder if that counts as well ;)

I guess the bottom line is that you still need to put in some sort of work to get the necessary qualifications...

My bootcamp (Hack Reactor) had a big assessment test at the end of six weeks. If you didn't pass, they would ask you to leave or redo the first six weeks.

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