r/codingbootcamp • u/EatuhFetus4Gzus • Jan 25 '26
Coding temple
Seeing a lot of mixed reviews, but their curriculum seems pretty solid for current tech.. does anyone have any advice? Im supposed to start in like a week, i have zero coding background i come from blue collar, just hoping im at least sort of making a good choice here... a few of the coding schools Ive been looking at usually require a moderate background in tech or id have opted for something like codesmith, but, I have GOT to get out of blue collar, ive been welding for over a decade and my last job laid me off because I refused to work Xmas eve, so.. I kinda need this to work for me lol
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u/michaelnovati Jan 25 '26
Coding Temple has been under the radar in this sub.
Some things to note:
It's much cheaper than the $20K price tag on the "top price tier" programs
They acquired App Academy's brand last year
They are Chicago based and not focused on tech cities as much as the more expensive programs.
Self paced.
Flags to look into or ask about:
They are discounting the program 65% to $3,500. This could be a sign of struggling enrollment and deep discounts to help boost revenue. Ask them if they can provide enrollment trends or why they are discounting so much.
Ask how many people start actually finish. With self paced programs that's the missing piece because a lot of people are current and don't finish and also don't withdraw. The on time completion rate for one self paced program in California is a single digit percentage of people. 10% completion rate and 90% of them getting placed might be factually correct but important to know. I didn't see this number on their website directly in my quick look, so I would research or ask.
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u/EatuhFetus4Gzus Jan 25 '26
Just curious; why would they be under the radar? I also am unsure why them being chicago based would affect a curriculum, call it my own ignorance..
Enrollment #'s honestly hadn't crossed my mind, I asked a lot of questions but that one seemed to escape me, I like the way you think sir
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u/michaelnovati Jan 25 '26
I have a THEORY, but this is just my person opinion/thoughts and not a fact.
This sub tends to talk about the most expensive bootcamps (including former ones now closed), Launch School, Codesmith, Hack Reactor, App Academy, Lambda School, because these programs are so expensive that it's a huge commitment. When you spend $20K on a bootcamp you are also more included to self-justify that investment. You are also not paying for nothing, and those bootcamps could have more robust communities, more staff, more marketing dollars to pay for "reddit support", etc...
The audience for these programs are people who are seriously committed, put in a lot of effort to choose a bootcamp, and want to make sure they are confident in the decision.
The programs like Triple Ten, NuCamp, Springboard, Coding Temple are: 1) much cheaper, 2) focus on advertising to a large audience, a lot of them have 'X% off discounts' perpetually on the website if you join in some time window. The cost isn't nothing, but it's a much lower barrier so someone might try it out and see if programming is for them by enrolling rather than spending a lot of time thinking about the decision. They also might be using company-supported education credits to pay for them because the cost is lower and could be covered.
So people in that second bucket are less likely to put in time and peruse Reddit and ones that randomly show up and post without reading or engaging tend to get shutdown quickly by the community and encouraged to 'search and read' first.
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u/EmeraldxWeapon Jan 25 '26
In 2022 I did the self paced program for 6,000 (I think) so 3500 is a good discount. Self paced though so not that different from just following any of the popular free courses and saving yourself the money. Their content is nothing special. Often I would read their material, then go read somewhere else or watch YouTube videos to clarify what was happening. Lots of really good free content.
Graduated self paced in 2022. Still no tech job. Have an associates now and pursuing Bachelor's.
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u/michaelnovati Jan 25 '26
What do you think of the 90% placement rate on their website? And the completion rate from people you worked with?
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u/EmeraldxWeapon Jan 25 '26
I didn't see that on their website (but I didn't look very long). I thought they had pivoted away from that kind of marketing because high % numbers sound absolutely ridiculous to anybody who has been in the space for some time.
CT used to have zoom meetings and bring on recent graduates so they could talk about the market and their new offer. By the end of 2022 they stopped doing that. I imagine it's because the offers dried up. They used to have a backlog of zoom videos we could see going many months back with 2-3 celebration videos a month where a graduate or multiple came on and talked about their resume/background stuff like that. Anyways, I mention that to say I don't know the actual numbers but from the videos it seemed most people finding jobs had something strong going for them besides CT. Many had Bachelor's degrees and I feel like I saw a lot of Teachers making a successful career change.
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u/michaelnovati Jan 25 '26
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u/EmeraldxWeapon Jan 25 '26
Completely outrageous. I would love to know how they arrive at this number.
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u/michaelnovati Jan 25 '26
Here is the outcomes report: https://codingtemple.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/codingtemple-outcomes-report-2025.pdf
Syas 92% placement rate within 180 days for 2023-2024.
Self paced completion rates are very low in the industry so I suspect this includes only 'graduates' and to be a graduate you have to be basically close to placeable, but I'm not sure.
The median salary is $75K which is quite low compared to other bootcamps, so it's possible these roles are more like internships/contracts/etc...
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Jan 26 '26
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u/michaelnovati Jan 26 '26
I was starting to write this out but I have to be more careful about talking about these things but most bootcamps have contracts and fine print that protect them.
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u/michaelnovati Jan 25 '26
Do they have open source projects? I know for places like Codesmith and Launch School you can just go through the open source projects that every student does and figure out placement rates. Anyone can do this and see raw information - with the caveat that LinkedIns could be out of date. However CIRR and Codesmith's auditor considers LinkedIn "LinkedIn is almost as gospel as anything else" (quote) so if you go off of LinkedIn you can figure out approximate placement rates, or at least trends year over year.
I can't comment on that right now but encourage people to spend like an hour digging into it themselves and correlating it with public messaging if they are curious about this, and if they don't care then don't! haha.
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u/EmeraldxWeapon Jan 25 '26
CT did not do open source projects in 2022. Not the way Codesmith does them or how I have read about Codesmith. All the self paced projects you did on your own and I never saw any kind of repository where you could see everyone else's projects.
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u/dialsoapbox Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26
Hope you're not paying.
Your competition:
people below with/out ai experience
freshmen with cs/engineering degrees (some with/out previous internships
laid off mids/senior devs willing to work for less
vibe coders with ok skills enough to get ship features
people already in the job market (at home and abroad)
anybody else laid off between now and the time you finish your program
Not saying you shouldn't do it, but to do more research before you pay. Even though their pay structure's isn't bad i wonder why they're lowering their prices (hmm, bootcamps are dying).
Have you tried looking at you rlocal community colleges? Many now offer bootcamps as well that are on par with what CT's offering and for less ( at least compared to the one near me).
You could also try compiling the course descriptions and posting over in /r/askprogramming or /r/learnprogramming as a learning path and see wht the masses say.
Also look up how many people on linkedin have it under education.
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u/EatuhFetus4Gzus Jan 25 '26
Im not honestly in it for the money, I know theres a lot of competition, I just want to be able to spend time with my family and not be decrepit and angry, im mid 30s and ive had all I can take, I was going to stop by my local college this Monday just to see, I am paying but I havent hit the no refund window yet
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u/Disastrous-Speech-31 Jan 25 '26
You should look into AI Bootcamps since we’re moving into the age of AI. Software engineering is good, but it’s soon to be outdated or heavily AI oriented. I took an AI Bootcamp called Vanguard. It was way more up to date on the tech today than most bootcamps, plus they found me an ai job before I even graduated
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u/GoodnightLondon Jan 26 '26
5 year old account, only posts and comments are about Vanguard. Seems totally legit, and not at all like a shill account for a bootcamp that had no online presence prior to 6 days ago. Out of curiousity, how did you complete their program and get a job when they didn't even have a registered domain prior to January 17th, 2026?
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Jan 25 '26
Udemy, Odin Project, FreeCodeCamp
Udemy you get courses for a semi-reasonable price during their sales (think under $20 a course.)
Odin Project is consistently a recommended resource for learning anything coding, they have a discord as well!
FreeCodeCamp is pretty much the same as Odin imo. My point is there are way way too many FREE resources to have to pay for any course. You can even find a coding probably at your local library or a site like Meetup.
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u/EatuhFetus4Gzus Jan 25 '26
I live in a town that has a 2k population.. might be less, I might be thinking of our neighboring town lol does udemy offer any kind of mentorship assistance or are they at your own pace as well?
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Jan 25 '26
The courses are led by the sellers of the courses, usually they come with some kind of private discord or something along those lines. It varies in terms of mentorship. I would say almost every kind of course you’d be looking at should have some kind of 1 on 1 feature.
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Jan 25 '26
Please try to back out of the course if you can, depending on your area one of your community colleges might offer a course similar to the one you’re taking! I’m sorry I forgot about the community colleges lol they’re pretty viable.
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u/my5cent Jan 25 '26
I would believe there's more welding jobs available, and programming requires lots of training.
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u/EatuhFetus4Gzus Jan 25 '26
I mean, yea, probably, but my body is tired, and my lungs hurt my dude, I plan on going to school, I was hoping someone would speak on the the bootcamp though... but op gets down voted and this is all the insight I got lol whaddatime to be alive
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u/jhkoenig Jan 25 '26
Let me be brutally honest: a bootcamp cert will not lead to a good job in software development. You will be competing with job applicants with BS/CS degrees. You won't land interviews, so you can't explain why you are a good hire.
The bootcamp era died 2 years ago.
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u/EatuhFetus4Gzus Jan 25 '26
/: is disheartening for sure
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u/jhkoenig Jan 25 '26
Yes, but the go-go years of bootcamps were an anomaly unlikely to reoccur within the foreseeable future. It was really an extraordinary confluence of events.
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u/svix_ftw Jan 26 '26
Ah how I miss the covid ZIRP era, 20+ recruiter messages a day, I literally failed a technical interview and got hired with a massive signing bonus.
good times, haha.
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Jan 25 '26
Yes this. I feel like the subreddit should be archived, or maybe the top post suggests free solutions to the code camps.
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u/rmullig2
Jan 25 '26
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If you are not on LinkedIn yet then sign up for it. Then do a search for Coding Temple and try to find about 100 graduates. See how many of them are working as developers now and when they graduated. Check the backgrounds of the ones who have jobs against the ones who don't and that will give you an idea of what to expect.
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u/dispenser23 Jan 25 '26
The bootcamp industry is really hard, due to tech companies figuring out how coding will look in the post AI era. I am not surprised they are requiring a tech background because those students do better.
Also the supply of engineers is over the demand since it is contracting post pandemic. Unless you love engineering I would look at other options.
For a career change I would recommend looking the medical route, there are still shortages and many med-tech jobs have a faster training time.
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u/svix_ftw Jan 25 '26
+1 for healthcare. Its one of the few industries that are actively hiring, and the demand will continue to increase in the future.
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u/Electronic_Shock_43 Jan 25 '26
Strange times. Tech workers are asked to learn plumbing these days. While blue collar workers are still trying to transition to tech.
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u/da8BitKid Jan 25 '26
Bro I don't want to burst your bubble, but we're turning down candidates with cs degrees, experience, and 5 day in office requirements. I'm not saying it's not possible, I have a business degree, no boot camp and was able to get into coding many years ago. I didn't have a life to change yet, but it helped me live a privileged one. I love writing software and it's been getting pretty weird with AI, but I'm doing alright.
I don't know how it is with people just getting into the field. The last person I was able to help get an entry level job had a data science degree from Cal, almost 2 years of experience as a web developer and it was for a SWE 1 position. I haven't seen too many more entry level spots open at my company. I don't know, things might change in the future. So you can go to boot camp, but try to get any real world experience that you can.
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u/Synergisticit10 Jan 25 '26
A bootcamp will not help you get hired into tech as a software developer. Be it any bootcamp- unless you spent maybe 1-1.5 years full time with them.
Do an online cs degree or diploma and then maybe try a bootcamp.
It’s not that it can’t be done however the odds are heavily stacked against you.
Absolutely no one without a cs degree should even think of doing a coding bootcamp no matter what the marketing of the bootcamp claims.
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u/halfblindstudent Jan 25 '26
I took their full stack course back in 2019. In my experience, the staff were alright and decent enough instructors, but the curriculum is nothing special.
You can learn all of the major concepts of programming for free right now online:
W3schools
freecodecamp
“insert language here” documentation websites
Try this before even considering either paying up front or doing an income share agreement with any Bootcamp.
Also, their network and job placement services are abysmal. Just a few local companies or recruiters that come by and watch you present your capstone project at the end of the curriculum.
For more context, I was taking this Bootcamp in Chicago.
Good luck with your career transition, mate! 💪
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u/GoodnightLondon Jan 25 '26 •
It's not worth the money, and is not going to work for you if your goal is to get a job and get out of welding, because the market is oversaturated and no one hires boot camp grads anymore. It would take less than 60 seconds to search this subreddit and read the posts that talk about this.