Title: Programs like General Assembly and Flatiron School are touted as effective ways to mint new developers very quickly, and a bunch of them boast hiring rates over 90% and average starting salaries of 100k or more.<p>And yet, looking around, there don&#x27;t seem to be many jobs for entry-level Rails or iOS developers. If you look around on job boards, there simply is not much competition for entry-level talent. Most of the job growth appears to be in academic stuff like AI and data science which requires at the very least a BS and probably an MS. The run-of-the-mill web and mobile developer positions all demand at least some level of experience (generally 2-6 years). It just doesn&#x27;t seem like there is enough demand for inexperienced talent to make this kind of program effective.<p>But if the stats that these bootcamps throw out are true, there are companies hiring people at $100k who, twelve weeks ago, had never opened a text editor in their lives.<p>If you&#x27;ve hired from one of these programs, what made you turn to them? Was it a success? And if it&#x27;s really possible to build a rails developer from scratch in 10 weeks, why not just just do it in-house through an internship program and avoid paying commission to these schools? And why do most companies still ask for &quot;<i>at least</i> a Bachelors in CS&quot; for web and mobile development positions?
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