A friend wants to break into coding and has asked my advice. He has an offer from Revature, which he describes as:
"They train their new associates for 10 to 12 weeks and then try to place them at different companies. Since the training is free and they also provide corporate housing, they require new associates to sign an agreement for a two year employment term. The first year pay is around 50k and the second year around 65k. The training is in Arlington Texas and after the training they can send me anywhere in the US to work depending on their clients needs."
My initial thoughts are that he would be better suited with an online school as being forced to travel for 2 years for that low of pay isn't a good deal. But I'm not up to speed on the subject and would appreciate advice.
Here are just a few we have come across recently that you can check out. Not sure if you are looking for front-end, full-stack, or mobile dev to name a few, so I mixed it a bit:
- https://www.thinkful.com/bootcamp/web-development/flexible/ - https://lambdaschool.com/courses/full-stack-web-development - https://flatironschool.com/career-courses/coding-bootcamp/ - https://www.hackreactor.com/ - https://www.codecademy.com/learn/paths/web-development - https://www.makeschool.com/ (bit of a different approach, still very much interesting)
I recommend you look for those that work with an ISA type of structure. That way you are sure the platform is incentivized to get you a good job afterwards.
Good luck!