If you want to design a new credential, how do you make people accept/respect it? One way is “convince the relevant government to make it illegal for people to perform a specific task without your credential”, but are there others?
As an employer, why should I hire someone who learned to code at App Academy but never went to college instead of the guy with the Comp. Sci degree from NJIT?
It should be noted that many employers do hire the somebody who learned to code at App Academy but never went to college over the other person.
(After all, the somebody can signal agentiness about becoming a better programmer, unlike the person. And the somebody is actually more likely to be a good employee than the person.)
(I’m not sure if you were implying the opposite of this or not (it is ambiguous))
Agreed. I just graduated from a different coding bootcamp (Fullstack Academy) and know that the good bootcamps have job placement rates in the mid-high 90s.
In this context I was using good to mean selective and prestigious. I’m not really sure where you’d find this information. My understanding is that App Academy, Hack Reactor, Fullstack and Dev Bootcamp are (part of) the top tier.
As for how much you learn, that’s a whole different question.
I don’t know. That’ s a tough question. Ideally, the invisible hand would do it for you. Firms would start to realize that people with this credential are good, and the market would reach some sort of equilibrium. But in practice, I’m not sure if this would work. I don’t know enough about how things work to really say. However, my suspicion is that although the market may not be perfectly rational, it’s rational enough such that if the credential was a really really strong indicator of quality, it’s value would rise to somewhere in the ballpark of where it should be.
If you want to design a new credential, how do you make people accept/respect it? One way is “convince the relevant government to make it illegal for people to perform a specific task without your credential”, but are there others?
As an employer, why should I hire someone who learned to code at App Academy but never went to college instead of the guy with the Comp. Sci degree from NJIT?
It should be noted that many employers do hire the somebody who learned to code at App Academy but never went to college over the other person.
(After all, the somebody can signal agentiness about becoming a better programmer, unlike the person. And the somebody is actually more likely to be a good employee than the person.)
(I’m not sure if you were implying the opposite of this or not (it is ambiguous))
Agreed. I just graduated from a different coding bootcamp (Fullstack Academy) and know that the good bootcamps have job placement rates in the mid-high 90s.
How do I tell the difference between a good bootcamp and a bad one?
In this context I was using good to mean selective and prestigious. I’m not really sure where you’d find this information. My understanding is that App Academy, Hack Reactor, Fullstack and Dev Bootcamp are (part of) the top tier.
As for how much you learn, that’s a whole different question.
I don’t know. That’ s a tough question. Ideally, the invisible hand would do it for you. Firms would start to realize that people with this credential are good, and the market would reach some sort of equilibrium. But in practice, I’m not sure if this would work. I don’t know enough about how things work to really say. However, my suspicion is that although the market may not be perfectly rational, it’s rational enough such that if the credential was a really really strong indicator of quality, it’s value would rise to somewhere in the ballpark of where it should be.