<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 May 2014 15:57, Louis Goff-Beardsley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:louisror@gmail.com" target="_blank">louisror@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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developers [boot camps] produce are often not immediately employable.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can't speak for others (other 'boot camps' that is), but my experience teaching at General Assembly (as a contractor... so I have no corporate axe to grind) is absolutely antithetical of that - as is the employment stats of the grads from the WDI courses that have run over the last year, and the attitude of employers that attend the recruitment 'meet-and-greets' that run at the end of each course.</div>
<div><br></div><div>From what I hear of other providers' courses though, the stories are very similar, so I'd be interested to find out what you're basing that assertion on. What sorts of things do you feel the graduates you meet are often lacking that causes them to not be immediately employable? (since the curriculum of the courses are generally based on the premise that they should be... and if we're missing anything, it would be nice to know)</div>
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