Coding Boot Camps Attract Tech Companies

Teaching highly specialized skills currently in demand has not traditionally been the mission of universities. In professions like architecture and medicine there is an expectation that new graduates won't have much in the way of practical knowledge about current practices, and so apprenticeships are more or less built in to the transition from student to practitioner.

Is a disinterest in teaching current professional practice really a failing of universities?

It seems more likely that bootcamps are simply a way for software firms to outsource part of the apprenticeship process. Most of the people who go to good bootcamps already have strong university educations and would likely have been able to be hired into junior dev roles anyway without the bootcamp.

You might not be writing idiomatic Swift from the get go but no one is at that point.

Not saying it was a good salary, but not all college graduates start at the ludicrously high salary people keep seeing posted online.

They can perform some procedures, but not all of them, and at some point there might be supervision.

Now to be fair, paralegal and nursing programs take much longer than 12 weeks, are very strict and are regulated occupations that require a license that you can actually lose under certain circumstances.

Their purpose is to provide extra productivity and cost efficiency, but at some point they might require supervision and some procedures might exceed the skills learned during their training.