Two reasons come to mind:<p>1. People who just graduated from a 12 week bootcamp are not really practiced and skilled enough to be mentoring others, imo.<p>2. It sounds like a way to inflate the bootcamp&#x27;s placement rates, which seems really sketchy and borderline false advertising to me.<p>My friend is considering this bootcamp around here called DevMountain and was telling me that the placement rate is supposedly around 90-95% within 3 months of graduation. This is for a 13-week program that costs over $10,000 I think. It might be a great program, but it sounds expensive to me and that placement rate sounds too good to be true. I warned my friend that they&#x27;ve probably found some way to manipulate that number, like people getting short-term contracts or something. My friend hears &quot;90% placement within 3 months&quot; and thinks he&#x27;s got a 90% chance of getting a good, full-time job within 3 months of finishing the program (which is probably what the bootcamp wants him to think).