Question 1

True or false: Coding Dojo’s alumni network includes employees at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Accepted Answer

True. Many Coding Dojo graduates have landed jobs at top tech firms. The school publicly shares placement data, listing companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google among employers.

Question 2

True or false: Coding Dojo was founded by a group of former Google engineers in Silicon Valley.

Accepted Answer

False. Coding Dojo was founded in 2012 by Richard Wang, Michael Choi, and German Gonzalez-Morris. None were former Google engineers; Wang was a data scientist at other firms.

Question 3

True or false: Coding Dojo teaches three full technology stacks in its flagship program, not just one.

Accepted Answer

True. Unlike most bootcamps that focus on one stack, Coding Dojo's curriculum covers Python, MERN, and Java/Spring, aiming to make graduates more versatile.

Question 4

True or false: Coding Dojo was originally inspired by the martial arts practice of iterative learning and repetition.

Accepted Answer

True. The term 'Coding Dojo' was coined by Dave Thomas, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer, drawing from martial arts dojos where students practice katas—repeated drills to master a skill.

Question 5

True or false: Coding Dojo guarantees a job within six months of graduation or your tuition is fully refunded.

Accepted Answer

False. Coding Dojo does not offer a full money-back job guarantee. It has a deferred tuition option but no unconditional refund promise—a common myth fueled by other bootcamps.

Question 6

True or false: Over 90% of Coding Dojo instructors are self-taught programmers with no formal computer science degree.

Accepted Answer

True. Coding Dojo emphasizes practical experience over credentials; many instructors are industry professionals or bootcamp graduates themselves, not traditional CS academics.

Question 7

True or false: Coding Dojo was acquired by a major university and now operates as a nonprofit educational program.

Accepted Answer

False. Coding Dojo remains a for-profit company. It was acquired by Learning Alliance Corporation in 2019, but it still operates as a private coding bootcamp, not a nonprofit.

Question 8

True or false: The first Coding Dojo bootcamp was held entirely online, with no in-person location.

Accepted Answer

False. The first Coding Dojo bootcamp was in-person, held in a rented office space in San Jose, California. Online options came later as the model expanded.

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