Pros
you can try it if you're unemployed and have no other offers
Cons
I'm just gonna tell you my story. I had a nice job I really liked. they recruited me to their High touch recruitment team, basically hiring. The money was great and the position interesting. It would have advanced my career so I decided to give them a chance, if there was no bootcamp involved. I spoke to 2 hiring managers and asked if there will be a such a thing for me. What is a bootcamp you ask? it's a 4 weeks intense testing period in which you are required to actively participate for 8 hours. You are not hired, this is not a training. They insist on making that very clear. You are paid, but that doesn't do you any good since you either have to be unemployed or quit your job to be in the bootcamp. So basically, it's a good idea if you don't have a job, otherwise, you're trading your good job, for a chance which is like saying "you need to quit in order for me to give you an interview" . The bootcamp is only an experiment, it is not well structured or thought out at all. Going back to my story., I asked if there will be a bootcamp. 2 hiring managers told me firmly "no", not for this position. I said ok, I quit, started with them. 3 days into it, I get an e-mail telling me I no longer have a job, I'm in bootcamp and maybe they will give me a job after. I am also told this will be very difficult, 10% graduating rate max, because they want the "graduates" to be better than the best people they already have. So I quit my job to interview for a very picky company. No, thank you! I would have never done that if they would have been honest. Now let me break this down for you: the bootcamp was introduced after I was hired with absolutely no consideration for the position I was put in. The company is right now in some bad turmoil because 3 bosses cannot decided what the team I was in, is suppose to do so they just fired 90% of the team. This is how they resolve things: they fire everyone. they have no strategy, only tactics. Instead of the managers to sit down and reach an agreement, they all start bombarding people with contradictory tasks and then blame the people themselves. Everyone in charge takes action before thinking in a frenzy and the employees suffer. They say they want to hire the top 1%, but they treat them like the bottom 1%, replaceable cogs that need to take orders very well and that can be easily replaced when the order wasn't clear because the employee is always at fault. Bottom line: they lured me in with a job and then asked me to interview again in an experiment in which I had to participate from 4PM to 2, 3 in the morning. I had assignments like listening to a presentation for 30 minutes or an hour or more and than take a 3, 4 questions quiz. If 1 answer was wrong, you failed the quiz. If you failed 2 quizzes out of 4, you failed the day. I had to read 170 of a book in 3 hours and write a 250 words essay in which to identify a concept from the portion I had to read and compare that concept to a system they use. I failed because the person grading decided the text structure was bad. I have a masters degree in literature theory, needless to say, he doesn't. He is not qualified to decide if the structure is bad and I think I know better if it is or not, I majored in it. The quizzes have trick questions, that means there are 2 possible correct answers, but they selected only one. You need to guess correctly . The quiz is on company culture, you don't know the company, you just got hired and they aren't honest in the presentation because they're trying to sell it, not to train you. Bottom line: you have absolutely no job security and it has nothing to do with your performance, all the remote work and money in the world do not compensate for it. It's literally a gamble. They change their mind all the time and what happened to me, can happen to you and at this point, they ask you to quit so you can interview with them!If all this seems ok to you, go right ahead.
