Pros
-It actually is free for you and you get paid your local minimum wage during the training and staging periods. They're essentially a staffing firm and they get paid by their clients. People are their product. -If you've tried to learn coding on your own before, but didn't know where to start or what you needed to learn in what order, Revature's training will give you a crash course that you can build from. -Apparently, they're also about to start a new program where if you're struggling to keep up in your batch, rather than ax you, they'll bump you to another batch in the same or a similar stack that's not as far along. -Clear pay structure for their two-year contract: 1st year = $45-55K/yr and 2nd year = $60-70K/yr depending on how they classify the local cost of living. -If you're struggling to find work in this Sisyphean hellscape of a job market and abysmal economy, Revature has a low bar for entry (bachelor's in anything); is specialized for people with minimal experience (whether in the industry or overall); and has a large base of corporate clients they shop you out to. -As of now (7/'22), there is still a remote program available for training.
Cons
-Because of the program's brevity, you don't really learn the material. To use an analogy, you learn what a hammer and nail are and how to use them to make a chair without learning how it holds two pieces of wood together. -It will absolutely consume all of your time. You get paid for 40 hrs/wk at your local minimum wage, but you'll be working way more than 40 hours. Be prepared for all-nighters and spending all day, every day studying and working on projects. -You'll have to either figure out how to survive on minimum wage or take on debt to make it through the training period. There is no way to work a part-time gig to make ends meet. -Zero transparency in really important things (to be fair, some of which they don't know themselves or have any control over) so it's impossible to plan. My batch was trained for a specific client (another WITCH firm), but we still have no idea what they plan to do with us or if our individual contracts have been purchased by them.
