Coding Bootcamps Promised Tech Jobs. Did They Deliver?

A twelve-week frontend development bootcamp in Lagos closed its most recent cohort with the usual graduation ceremony, group photos, certificates, a guest speaker from a fintech company praising the students' dedication. Of the thirty-two graduates in that cohort, roughly a third had secured some form of paid tech-related work within six months, another third were still actively job hunting while freelancing intermittently, and the remainder had either returned to their previous careers or pivoted toward a different field entirely, having concluded that the promised tech transition had not materialized for them. These numbers, gathered informally through alumni networks rather than any official tracking the bootcamp itself publishes, roughly match the pattern described by graduates of several other programmes approached for this piece.