not a bootcamp grad, and I dont know about turing school so my input might not be as helpful here. I know a couple people on here have gone the bootcamp route and found success. I would say if a bootcamp does the following you might find best possible chance of success: - decent job drilling some practical skills that you'd use on the job - some surface level knowledge on necessary theory that would be useful - demo-able projects of course it requires a lot of self study and side projects as well. I would also look into apprenticeship/co-op type programs to start out after a bootcamp. There was a thread here earlier about jp morgan's tech connect program which is almost like an internship that converts into a FT job.