I keep thinking about this so I thought to ask HN's opinion. We all know what bootcamps do. They charge you to train you and then you hope to get a job at a good company.
As a bootstrapped SAAS founder, I am finding it very hard to try and attract experienced talent as I cannot pay the high salaries for senior folks. However, I can afford to pay 60-70K USD/Year with profit sharing options. The issue is that you have to work with us in our office at least for first few months before I am comfortable doing remote.
So I thought of an idea where I would run a web dev bootcamp as an employer. I will pay entry level folks to join the bootcamp and out of the batch, I will then hire the best candidates once bootcamp is over. So there really is no downside to the bootcampers. They get paid to learn but I get to choose who I want to hire from that batch. Win win ?
As a bootstrapped SAAS founder, I am finding it very hard to try and attract experienced talent as I cannot pay the high salaries for senior folks. However, I can afford to pay 60-70K USD/Year with profit sharing options. The issue is that you have to work with us in our office at least for first few months before I am comfortable doing remote.
So I thought of an idea where I would run a web dev bootcamp as an employer. I will pay entry level folks to join the bootcamp and out of the batch, I will then hire the best candidates once bootcamp is over. So there really is no downside to the bootcampers. They get paid to learn but I get to choose who I want to hire from that batch. Win win ?