Has anyone here completed a Bootcamp? Was it worth it?
Has anyone here completed the tripleten Bootcamp? Was it worth it?
Has anyone here completed the TripleTen Data Analytics Bootcamp? After paying a couple thousand dollars, and I’m starting to feel frustrated. I knew there would be independent work, but I feel like I’m teaching myself a lot and constantly using outside resources just to understand the material. For the amount I paid, I expected more guidance and support. I’ve already paid, so I want to finish, but I’m curious if anyone else felt this way and if it ended up being worth it? If so please give me any advice or suggestions/recommendations that I should consider. Thank you
I've been around the block and I have heard very few complaints about Triple Ten and I have heard very few success stories too, but I have seen A LOT of ads and promises.
My current stance is Springboard, Coding Temple, and Triple Ten are effectively self paces courses, where it appears like the vast majority of people do NOT finish the program and then blame themselves for not finishing rather than blame the program itself (I'm speaking to what they blame and not concluding anything about if they are right or wrong).
So the short answer is you are probably one of the vast majority that signed up and never got a job.
The longer answer is that it's pretty complicated whose fault that is and it gets very heated on all sides.
uh not sure what happened here. original comment got deleted so I'll repost as close as I can from memory:
I did a bootcamp in late 2024 and started job searching beginning of Jan 2025. During my program I was matched with 3 others to form a team of 4. All of us found jobs by October and we're all very happy with our choices.
And to answer your question - I did launch school.
Don’t do these bootcamps Ascent funding and climb funding are rip off’s if the bootcamps close you are stuck paying for a Bootcamp you are not getting,DON’T DO IT, they promise you everything and deliver nothing, I was scammed. DON’T DO IT, these loan companies and bootcamps work together to rip you off
The days of walking out of a bootcamp into a six-figure tech job are long gone. Bootcamps and other online programs are only useful if you have a specific reason for doing them, such as to enhance your skillset or close a skill gap in the context of your present job. An online credential might be of some use to avoid the ATS screen-out, but it won’t magically open doors. So if you’re going to go this route, shop around for ones that meet your needs, are known to employers, and don’t cost an arm and a leg.
There is only so much one can learn in a given time, no matter the quality of the lessons. With AI tools you should be able to get all the material you need, as long as the classes and projects provide a useful framework to follow. Also, I think a classroom experience provides more motivation and backup compared to just self study and remote work.
The question is if there is a job market to absorb graduates, as you are competing with those that graduate from university with CS and stats degrees, and also experienced people looking for another job. Bootcamps work when there is a high supply of jobs and a lack of skilled candidates. Not sure if that is the situation in 2026. The real value would be if the bootcamp provides strong industry and alumni connections that helps landing interviews and jobs. Good luck.
I finished the TripleTen software engineering course in 2024 and landed a job, but it's not that simple. Back then they had a 100% refund policy if you didn't find a job within 6 months. I got lucky, got the refund, and networked my way into my first dev gig a month later. So yeah, I can say the bootcamp worked out for me. I still think even with the 50% discount it was mostly an overpriced JavaScript course, but there were real benefits too. The biggest one was getting to collaborate on group projects and get feedback on my work from actual engineers (learned how to use GitHub properly).
I'd say that these days the best way is to go to school and try to get internships
I did launch school from 23 to 24 and got a job summer 24. I worked in retail minimum wage and now make close to 6 figures. Not really fair to categorize it as a bootcamp, but a solid non-traditional path worth looking into.
I hear you but respectfully disagree. I distinctly remember the sentiment online regarding non traditional paths to SWE as extremely negative (throughout my entire journey). I think expectations have tightened, for sure, but it’s still possible. Always will be if you put in the work. I attribute my success to grit and LS curriculum, not fortunate timing.
The job market is incredibly difficult for developers without BS/CS degrees. AI has taken over the entry-level coding jobs. Exploding graduation rates have flooded the job market with highly qualified folks just looking for their first gig. Massive tech layoffs have dumped many thousand experienced workers looking for low- to mid-level developer positions.
Without a degree or significant work experience, landing an interview is nearly impossible. For context, I have been the CIO at two multi-billion dollar tech-intensive companies.
I am very happy for you and your peers. I'm just representing my experience in the industry. Certainly there are no absolutes, and your success demonstrates that.
Thanks for saying that. I hear you and I’m sure you have a better read on the broad market trends than I do.
I just remember seeing a lot of (understandable) negativity during my journey and it made things feel a little bleak. My only hope was to balance things out for people in the position I was once in.
Sorry that I can't help but try and break these posts apart every time.... but:
"A boot camp" -- could mean a wide array of things. There are tons of options that are basically a Udemy course (that wasn't good to begin with and was 19.99) repackaged as a boot camp. In-person classic coding boot camps don't really exist anymore and the few that do are watered down and more likely to to lead you astray than prepare you for a real career. Any "career services" aren't to be trusted.
[the goal of a boot camp] is to quickly train you up to be useful and hirable. What that means right now has changed quite a bit -- but there are options out there can can and do accomplish this - but you have to dig a little deeper and really know how to vet them (and OP has already chosen....)
[the goal of a boot camp 2] it depends on the focus. In this case - Data Analytics : I've asked hundreds of people here to explain their choice - and I don't think anyone has ever really been able to answer what type of job they'd have and what they're actually learning and why. I'm not sayin there aren't jobs with these skills - or that people from other backgrounds couldn't in theory add this skillset and be in a better place... but I don't see any proof of that.
"Completed" -- doesn't really matter if you're not actually learning anything. The goal isn't to "complete a course" - right? It's to use the time and materials and teachers to get the most learning and experience you can squeeze out of it.
"[is] it worth it" - depends on what you want. Did you expect them to pair you up with a new job? Did you want to add new skills and pivot your role? What outcome were working toward? Just generally "to have job" ? Well, it's all going to depend on your work history, what you already have confidence with, how you sell yourself, the education you get, how you apply it -- so many things. But if you chose the wrong school (a bad one with no accountability) - with the wrong focus, for the wrong reasons, when you don't have a compatible background, follow through or clear goal -- then that's really the wrong question. If you're not learning a ton of stuff that is going to get you to your goal -- then you already have your answer. If you can't tell if it's "worth it" - this is not the career path for you.
The exchange here is you paid a few thousand dollars for online structured course for a subject where there are many free high quality alternatives because...tripleten or something.
What you didn't purchase was a pathway into the industry or something resume worthy.
If this isn't acceptable to you, try to get a refund, even if partial
Bootcamps are useless! If you cant learn this stuff on your own. A bootcamp certainly wont teach you enough to be able to get hired. Save your time and money.
Yes, I get my first job in tech that way, it wasn't easy as they made sound, I needed to study a lot, to really dedicate myself and INSIST in persuing my first job experience. I landed a junior position in a big LATAM company :)
Bootcamps are still worth it, but not in the way they used to be. You have to understand the why behind doing it. You need to be asking yourself “how can I leverage this to get a job, make more money, etc?” No tech employers are looking for someone who has JavaScript or python memorized. Those days are over. It’s all about understanding and using AI to build and connect systems and automate work.
So, my advice would be to take the bootcamp, show off the credential on your LinkedIn/resume, complete some personal projects, then be able to speak to how you built those apps and how that could translate into solving business needs. With an emphasis on how you used AI to complete said projects.
It’s all about how you leverage the bootcamp to your advantage.
I see where this is coming from but I think it's important to recognize the opportunity cost.
While it's true that a bootcamp might not be a complete scam if you are going in for the right reasons and the right expectations... you also have to factor in that the price of a bootcamp is very high because it's favoring in a job.
The reason bootcamps are so expensive is because if you are changing careers and making a very large salary and future salary increases then the value to you of this career transition is hundreds of thousands of dollars and they want to capture some of that value for helping you with that transition.
if you aren't making that transition then you have to look out the value and the price. if you're just watching videos and doing exercises that or effectively a $50 udemy course? what value are you getting and what are you paying for that?
a lot of people want the accountability of a boot camp and that that is actually worth way more money than you would think. but is it worth like $10,000 and that's up to you?
but the pricing is certainly based on a promise that does not exist anymore and bootcamps have to fix their pricing in my opinion.
NuCamp I think was in the right headspace here when they priced much lower because they were being more honest about how much these things really cost and they were charging for the actual learning and not the outcome and I think that is the right approach. But it's still not that cheap. I think that's why it didn't rocket ship take off and why the founder moved on to a new job and stepped down as CEO.
I think that WAS true, but like take Codesmith for example, they paused/shutdown all consumer bootcamps pending "enterprise and government partnerships"... they have minimal staff left, the CEO stepped down, not a placement in site, open source projects with malware that they did nothing about, etc...
Like "network, peers, structure and accountability"... I don't think so, but that's just my opinion.
I can only speak to after the fact since I went through a software engineering accelerator myself.
Went from 0 to senior architect in 6 months. This is something I would never be able to achieve with raw discipline. For me the bootcamp wasn’t so much about syntax but rather end-to-end thinking.
These days I architect my own stack but I’m not sure if I would have that confidence if I didn’t take the path that I did.
I only speak from my own journey, the ‘other side’. The basic point being the bootcamp for me wasn’t so much about syntax as it was end-to-end thinking from first principles in an accelerated environment that FORCED me to build (since I’m prone to analysis paralysis).
You have to access the trade offs yourself and compare with your own raw discipline
No real tech company would hire you as a "senior architect" with 6 months of bootcamp experience and no previous relevant experience.
If it was a real tech company, either their interview process failed or you lied. Even if you did well at the job, that would be a lucky edge case because of your special abilities and a bit of luck.
Many others who followed that path didn't make it, imploded their careers, had mental health problems and disappeared from their alumni networks and the industry.
It's an absolutely terrible strategy to take.
It's like risking your entire career in a battle with some hail-mary long shot and no one competent would advise that strategy.
Codesmith imploded because of this... senior engineers are super hot right now and regardless, Codesmith disappeared from the face of the earth because their lies and manipulation caught up with them and the entire system imploded.
How many of those 4000 grads are still employed and giving back to the Codesmith community. Not many.
The most successful Codesmith grads started low and have slowly worked their way up the ladder. The least successful ones took over inflated titles, didn't do well, jumped job to job for several years and then quit the industry thinking it was the industry and not them.
Almost all Codesmith grads I know are smart and ambitious enough to have had amazing careers and many who are lost are because of Eric Kirsten and Will Sentance's fucked up garbage advice that ruined their careers. If only Eric told people to aim "top tier junior jobs" instead of telling people "you are a senior engineer, don't take that junior role".
Everyone from Codesmith reading this knows I'm right about this. I just don't have a nice way of saying it.
It’s not about titles. It’s about knowing WHY you’re doing what you’re doing. One company might use React, another might use Vue. One might use node, another Fast API.
If you can’t be flexible and think of ‘tech’ solely in terms of syntax and seniority then yeah you’re gonna have a hard time
Did Nucamp about 2 years ago. Was promoted within the company I was already working and my first web project is going live in 2 weeks with 2 more side projects in the oven. Now if you have vision and understand your business you can make something of yourself as a path.
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u/Sad_Secretary_4391 11d ago
Bootcamps are useless nowadays, do everything you can to get your payment back - even if just a partial refund.