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Re:Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads by learc83 on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:43PM (#14541371)
No I don't doubt they work at Google--I doubt that it's what they learned at app academy that got them the job at Google.

You can't​ take someone new to programming and train them to pass a Google interview in 12 weeks.

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Re:Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads by nycbootcamp on Monday June 12, 2017 @08:31PM (#14542194)
I did this and 1 other person did this in my cohort.

The flaw with your assumption is that you're new to programming by the time you start a/A. By the time you start a/A you can already solve sophomore-level algorithms problems.

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Re:Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads by learc83 on Monday June 12, 2017 @09:50PM (#14542422)
>The flaw with your assumption

I never assumed that. I prefaced my assertion with: unless you have a significant knowledge base going in.

I've done a bit of reading up on app academy and from what I can tell it's a pretty standard curriculum, but it includes 80-100 hours per week of work.

It's basically a 12 week long interview that's doesn't so much train developers as it does select them.

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