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Re:Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads by timbuckley on Monday June 12, 2017 @02:24PM (#14539625)
The vast majority of these are App Academy (a/A) programming bootcamp graduates, which explains why only 10% have CS degrees. Bootcamp graduates are probably not representative of all CS grads, or even most devs, so take this with a grain of salt.
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Re:Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads by linkregister on Monday June 12, 2017 @03:12PM (#14540119)
It looks like App Academy grads vastly out-earn their CS-degreed counterparts. I wonder if that is representative of App Academy. If so, that is impressive.
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Re:Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads by timbuckley on Monday June 12, 2017 @04:13PM (#14540684)
App Academy is extremely selective (less than 3%). Also there is probably sample bias, since these are all self-reported.
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Re:Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads by linkregister on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:18PM (#14541196)
So App Academy is fulfilling the selection process that companies really want?

Sounds like a cheaper way to a $150k salary than spending 4 years at a top CS university or MBA program.

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Re:Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads by timbuckley on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:41PM (#14541358)
Indeed. I'm a graduate (3+ years ago). Best thing I ever did.
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