{"id":29524,"date":"2021-03-08T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T00:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/?p=29524"},"modified":"2021-10-16T01:49:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T08:49:33","slug":"flatiron-school-2020-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/flatiron-school-2020-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Flatiron School Worth It? A 2020 Job Outcomes Report Deep Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cI graduated in May of 2019 from a coding bootcamp [called] Flatiron School<\/a>. I got my job a week before graduation and I started working in June [as a junior software engineer for biotech company Baylor Genetics]… So, here we are, full picture, a year and a couple of months later\u2026 I bought my dream house,\u201d said Olivia Auzenne in a video<\/a> she recorded at a fully furnished luxury townhouse in Houston, Texas.
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Also documenting his life after the bootcamp is Flatiron School graduate Garrett Halstein<\/a> who secured a full-time software engineering role at IBM immediately after graduation. \u201cI think the main question [that I had] going in was that if I go to Flatiron [School] or if I go to a coding bootcamp, will I get a job? In my case, I did, and it took me a month or two to get one.\u201d
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\u201cAnother question [I had was] am I going to be financially independent? And yes, currently, I don\u2019t have any problems with money,\u201d he said. Yet despite his success, Garrett is quick to caution other aspiring bootcamp learners. \u201cUnderstand [that] this is not everyone\u2019s case.\u201d
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So, what is the case for everyone? We know that skepticism is the first, even proper, response toward reading success stories like Olivia\u2019s and Garrett\u2019s. After all, it is difficult to take a stranger\u2019s words as is. So, we took a look at Flatiron School\u2019s outcomes and are here to share the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raising the Bar Among Coding Bootcamps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Flatiron School was founded in 2012 by venture capitalist Adam Enbar and self-taught programmer Avi Flombaum. Nearly a decade later, the coding bootcamp has established itself as one of the tech industry\u2019s leading education providers. What began in a small, second-floor walk-up in Manhattan has scaled to eight campuses across the United States alongside its online offerings. 
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The vision for the coding bootcamp is simple: to be a viable pathway to a tech career. The school\u2019s co-founder, Avi, best explained this during a Breaking Into Startups podcast interview<\/a> where he shared the meaning behind Flatiron School\u2019s logo represented by two slashes. 
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\u201cIn programming, there\u2019s something called a protocol operator. So, [if you look at the link for Flatiron School], there\u2019s \u2018http,\u2019 a colon, two slashes, and then \u2018flatironschool.com.\u2019 What this operator is saying is that the way to get to the thing on the right is through the thing on the left. In the same way, we wanted to use the slashes to show people that [Flatiron School] is a path. It is a way to get somewhere.\u201d 
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Let\u2019s talk about that somewhere. What career paths can Flatiron School graduates venture into<\/a> after the bootcamp? How exactly have students fared beyond the campus walls? 
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In 2014, Flatiron School produced its first independently-examined jobs report, seeing it as an opportunity to set a standard of transparency and accountability for its students and the industry. 
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Below are the key data points from Flatiron School\u2019s 2020 Jobs Report<\/a>:
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