<aside> đź’ˇ Written by Aaron Hayslip on April 1, 2022

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In March 2021, Parsity launched as a 100% online code school, offering both Full-time and Part-time Flex programs. Before launching Parsity, I founded and ran an in-person coding bootcamp (Project Shift) for ~3 years.

In a time of global disruption, thanks to the pandemic, the initial mission of Parsity was to produce the same outcomes as Project Shift (near 100% placement for graduates in Software Engineering positions at an average starting salary of ~$67k) but at a fraction of the price - the in-person nature of Project Shift meant that tuition was $24,900 (and TBH, we somehow managed to always lose a bit of money every year).

Parsity costs less than 1/3 of Project Shift at $7,900 ($6,900 with scholarships) but has become even more rigorous in terms of admissions requirements.

As for outcomes, we’re on pace. Technically, 92% of graduates land a Full-time Software Engineering job with a starting salary of $68,750.

I say “technically”, because as everyone knows, you should always question how Coding Bootcamps like ours came up with these numbers. And if you’re familiar with us (or our predecessor, Project Shift) you know how important transparent and unbiased outcomes are to us. To that end, we’ve always been members of CIRR (Council on Integrity in Results Reporting).

If you’re unfamiliar with CIRR, it’s an organization that was founded many years ago with the purpose of providing a reporting standard for Coding Bootcamps. It has ensured that we cannot make up numbers and it even goes so far as to require us to audit our numbers and to back every “placement” with a copy of the students’ official offer letter.

However, if you go to the website here (at the time of this writing) you’ll notice that the last reports available are from 2020, and it’s now 2022. Parsity has a problem with this. We owe it to potential students and partners to be able to publish statistics quickly.

So what’s going on with CIRR? To be honest, I’m not exactly sure. Despite my repeated attempts at communication, I’ve had very little success in getting a response. I do know that CIRR’s recent CEO, Sheree Speakman (who was always amazing to work with), is no longer with the organization. In fact, it appears that the fate of the non-profit organization is in the hands of a small group of volunteer board members.

That being said, this “Annual Report” is an attempt to report our statics in the most transparent way possible, despite not having the support of a third party like CIRR.

To that end, here are a few notes about the statistics below:

Okay, let’s get into it!

The Stats

Aaron’s Key Takeaways