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Comment by sunny--tech

You can’t compare uni and bootcamps because they’re a false equivalency as someone else pointed out.

The sole purpose of a bootcamp is to get a job afterwards. That’s why they market their job placement rates so much.

Uni, video courses, and MOOCs are for education. Not everyone uses them to get a job, so job placement for a video course or uni compared to bootcamp doesn’t give you much info.

Anecdote: I did a self-paced online school to get my first software job. I did research on it in regards to job placement.

After getting my first software job, I have since taking many video courses and even went back to uni to get a degree in Computer Science. All of that was purely for further education, not getting a job.

I wouldn’t go to a bootcamp in my position because I don’t need it. They aren’t focused on education or academics but job training.

parent sunny--tech 5 years ago

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