I think a bootcamp is pretty useful for someone who has no experience in development and wants to obtain it in a relatively short time frame.
Teachers come to mind here. Many of them encounter a LOT of difficulty when they try to find jobs outside of education. Many, many companies completely discount their experience regardless of the length of time they've spent in the profession. This essentially means that teachers who've been in the system for a while and are becoming disillusioned with it are almost forced to restart their career; this is very painful for those that have many, many years in the game.
A bootcamp is a great way of getting the experience needed to restart their career into a well-paying industry (for now). Yeah, they don't learn Big O or discrete math, but they do learn how to write an app that will make their founders a LOT of money if it sells, and that's worth a lot.
BTW: A lot of high-falutin places (like Jane Street, which I worked at a few years ago) care much more about your experience and what you've done than where you came from (at least on the development side of the house, which pays handsomely compared to market; the trading side still heavily recruits from the Ivies). I remember them hiring a few Hacker School type devs, and if they survived our interview process, that means they HAD to be good.
Teachers come to mind here. Many of them encounter a LOT of difficulty when they try to find jobs outside of education. Many, many companies completely discount their experience regardless of the length of time they've spent in the profession. This essentially means that teachers who've been in the system for a while and are becoming disillusioned with it are almost forced to restart their career; this is very painful for those that have many, many years in the game.
A bootcamp is a great way of getting the experience needed to restart their career into a well-paying industry (for now). Yeah, they don't learn Big O or discrete math, but they do learn how to write an app that will make their founders a LOT of money if it sells, and that's worth a lot.
BTW: A lot of high-falutin places (like Jane Street, which I worked at a few years ago) care much more about your experience and what you've done than where you came from (at least on the development side of the house, which pays handsomely compared to market; the trading side still heavily recruits from the Ivies). I remember them hiring a few Hacker School type devs, and if they survived our interview process, that means they HAD to be good.