> App Academy graduates compete for the same jobs as people who have taken computer science in college, a four year long, $200,000 undertaking.
No they don't. I have never once considered a recent bootcamp graduate to be equivalently talented and knowledgeable as a recent CS graduate. Their earnings difference certainly reflects this. (Try getting a job at Google as an "App Academy" graduate vs a fresh Stanford grad.)
I call this the Einstein fallacy. It says that quality Q is of questionable relevance/utility/value because there exist people without quality Q that do X, even though the vast majority of people who do X have quality Q. But that argument is kind of insane.
If you want a job at Google, you're much better off getting a degree from a good university. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional.
(EDIT: And no, App Academy graduates do not -- on balance -- compete for the same jobs as recent Stanford graduates. On balance, they compete for very different jobs and have far lower starting salaries. The existence of exceptional outliers is not a good basis for policy or decision making.)
(edit2: whoever just downvoted every single post I made on this article: the reply button is there for a reason :-) Otherwise, the early career salary for Stanford is $97,100. Are you saying that the average app academy graduate makes ~6 figures right after finishing the academy?)
>Are you saying that the average app academy graduate makes ~6 figures right after finishing the academy?
Yes. I know of a/A graduates who have accepted offers at $90k, $100k, and $115k. The $90k was their first offer, and the general reaction was that declining it in favor of continuing the search was probably higher value.
Average, which has been hammered home in three posts now. Anecdotes are non-answers.
Edit: Incidentally, according to App Academy's own numbers, they're about $10k behind Stanford in average salary (and, I'd argue, the comparison is apples and oranges to begin with. Stanford graduates are much more geographically distributed, that's noise. Many Stanford graduates will go on to graduate school, that's noise. Some a/A graduates already have a college degree or experience in another industry, that's noise. And so on.)
No they don't. I have never once considered a recent bootcamp graduate to be equivalently talented and knowledgeable as a recent CS graduate. Their earnings difference certainly reflects this. (Try getting a job at Google as an "App Academy" graduate vs a fresh Stanford grad.)