Bootcamps vs. College
There are several factors that don&#x27;t enter this analysis.<p>1. Bootcamps can be selective over a range of non-academic criteria such as interview skills, personal hygene, and prior work experience. Or to put it another way, unlike a public university, a boot camp can select for culture fit both in its internal cohorts and in the workplaces it targets.<p>2. Bootcamps tend to attract people with previous work experience: someone more likely to have several years of working to keep a roof over their head than a recent CS grad. There&#x27;s a difference between a junior programmer with their first real job and a junior programmer who has spent six years working crappy jobs [or good ones].<p>3. Bootcamps have much more  latitude to train for employment and employability. Listening to Jeff Meyerson&#x27;s hours of bootcamp love songs, those interviews have left me with the distinct impression that doing so is common.<p>4. Bootcamp grads may come out with a stronger alumni network that can provide recent feedback about interview processes like Triplebyte&#x27;s. Going in with some idea of what&#x27;s coming is likely to produce better results.<p>5. Bootcamps don&#x27;t have to report their &quot;failures&quot;. There&#x27;s no independent oversight or accountability of the sort common in university education. A &quot;C student&quot; may simply find it impossible to graduate a bootcamp. The bootcamps are free to shape their &quot;graduate&quot; pool however they wish.