That includes applicants who have attempted teaching themselves the basics, whether via free or paid online resources or college courses in computer science. And while previous coding experience isn’t required, CEO and co-founder David Phillips explains that Hackbright looks for people who have some sort of demonstrated interest in becoming software engineers. Hackbright’s current class includes 26 students winnowed down from 400-plus applicants. to 6 p.m., in San Francisco’s Financial District. The $12,000 10-week engineering fellowship for women is full-time, with classes taught Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. The average acceptance rate averages below 20% and can go as low as 5%, as is currently the case for Hackbright Academy. Getting into a program can prove a challenge.
Another boot camp co-founder puts it more bluntly: “The promise is the promise of livelihood.” “We’ve had plenty of students who are in their 30s, 40s, and 50s and realized that what ever they were doing wasn’t working for them,” explains Jesse Farmer, co-founder of the nine-week Dev Bootcamp, which taught its first class in early 2012. That, coupled with pent-up demand is why program applicants come from all walks of life, from thirtysomething nannies to fortysomething attorneys and bankers. Such nine- to 12-week accelerated programs, including Dev Bootcamp, Hackbright Academy, and Hack Reactor, arm students with the fundamental skills needed to compete as engineers - no previous coding experience required. MORE: The next Most Powerful Women in techĮnter the Silicon Valley “boot camp,” a nouveau vocational school for the coding-inclined. And filling that void may be easier now more than ever. (Larger companies like Facebook and Apple (FB) aren’t far behind.) While the talent vacuum remains problematic for Bay Area companies, it presents a huge opportunity for candidates.
Indeed, the average annual salary for Google software engineers now hovers around $143,000 and skyrockets to as much as $550,000, according to job site Glassdoor, and that’s before factoring in generous signing bonuses and company perks.
Added Lee: “The kinds of offers they’re giving out are astronomical.” A former Google (GOOG) product manager, Lee now finds her profitable startup vying for talent alongside Facebook (FB) and Twitter. “I think this might be the worst engineering market ever,” Jess Lee, CEO of the style community Polyvore, told Fortune recently.
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