Has anyone heard of a coworker leaving investment banking for a boot camp for coding or product design? What was their experience?

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Haven’t heard from ib specifically but have heard folks in other areas like consulting who’ve gone to do work with the likes of General Assembly and their experience was positive. Most go on to create their own startups / join new startups

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Yes - flatiron school in NYC. Turned their career around

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Typically people get decent jobs in software development, etc.. usually all in between $90-125... Several create their startups with others they met in the boot camp.. most fail as you'd expect, but couple years in a startup allows them to recruit for manager level positions in software/tech for $200-250+ jobs only 2-4 years in startups

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There’s a guy that went from ib to pe to software dev on wso and he was a vp in pe from what I recall

Know someone who quit and did a bootcamp and now is an engineer. The camp is intensive but based on the people I know who have done it, can’t be too hard. Just need to have a passion for coding

What’s the career trajectory on that?

Software engineer, product management at a tech company, basically anything with a coding background requirement

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