Employment Data | Code Fellows

The primary goal of this employment reporting standard is to report employment data in a way that will be most helpful for a prospective student, to help them understand how likely they’ll get an opportunity to gain employment as a result of participating in our training.

This standard relies on the following terms and definitions:

In-Field: employment that would not likely otherwise be obtained without relevant training offered by the institution.
Graduate: a student who completes the program and successfully gains a certification.
Job Seekers: graduates who have gotten a job or who report they’ve been seeking for at least six months, or students who left prior to graduation and got a job In-Field.

Reporting Period: 1/1/2013 - 6/1/2021
	Count	%
Job Seekers - Graduates	1435	82%
Job Seekers - Non-Graduates	313	18%
Job Seekers - Total	1748	100%

Job Seekers - In-Field	1619	93%
Salaried Employee In-Field	1435	82%
Non-salaried Apprenticeship, Internship, or Contract Position In-Field	103	6%
Freelance, Self Employed or Started a New Company In-Field	60	3%
Employed At Code Fellows In-Field	21	1%
Employed Out-of-Field	88	5%
Unemployed and Seeking a Job	41	2%
Job Seekers - Total	1748	100%

Non-Seeking Graduates	13	1%
Non-Reporting Graduates	39	3%

Median Salary for In-Field, Full-Time Roles	$75,000
Median Weeks To Hire for In-Field, Full-Time Roles	18

Top Ten Most Common Job Titles for In-Field, Full-Time Roles
Software Engineer
Software Development Engineer
Web Developer
Software Developer
Front End Developer
iOS Developer
Senior Software Engineer
Software Development Engineer Apprentice
Full Stack Developer
Developer

Our Methods for Gathering this Data

We believe that prospective students want to know the following:

What is the ratio of people hired In-Field out of all Job Seekers?
- Of those who were hired In-Field, what percentage were hired in salaried, full-time positions?
- Of those who were hired In-Field, what percentage were hired for a non-salaried position (e.g. contract, apprenticeship, internship)?
- Of those who were hired In-Field, what percentage were hired by the reporting institution?
- Of those who were hired In-Field, what percentage reported working as freelance, self-employed or having started a new company?
What is the ratio of people employed Out-of-Field, out of all Job Seekers?
What is the ratio of people unemployed and seeking, out of all Job Seekers?
What is the ratio of people unemployed and not seeking, out of all Graduates?
What is the ratio of people non-responding to employment inquiries, out of all Graduates?
Of those who were hired In-Field in salaried, full-time positions, what's the median starting base salary?
Of those who were hired In-Field in salaried, full-time positions, what's the median time to hire?
Of those who were hired In-Field in salaried, full-time positions, what are the most common job titles?
On what date was this data last collected and published?

Job Seekers are queried on a regular basis, to determine their employment status. To produce reports that answer the above questions, employment documentation records are collected. If there’s evidence that someone was hired In-Field, barring evidence to the contrary, we use it as substantiating documentation and attribute employment status accordingly. We require one or more of the following, to document employment status, prioritized in order of preference:

Written confirmation from the student or employer. This can be in the form of a survey response, email, Slack message, etc. and if applicable a screenshot is captured.
Screenshot capture of LinkedIn profile, in which case the hire date is presumed to be the first day of the month indicated.

The first In-Field employment status is tracked, plus any additional career advancements up until the first full-time salaried position, at which time employment salary and employment start date are updated along with the new employment status. Career changes that are not advancements are not tracked (e.g. new contracts, work terminations, etc); reports reflect opportunities only, not subsequent performance or success. Employment data for any given individual does not necessarily reflect their current employment status; it reflects the highest employment status achieved, up to and including the first full-time, In-Field position obtained.

Those who are hired by the reporting institution are tracked either as hired In-Field at the Reporting Institution, or Out-of-Field, as applicable to the role they’re hired into. Teaching Assistants (“TAs”) are specifically tracked differently. When TAs finish their employment and self-report a new status, their employment is changed to the appropriate category. They must report to have been seeking for six months, either during or after their employment as a TA, to be considered a Job Seeker.

Someone who has been unemployed and seeking for any amount of time, and who finds employment In-Field will then be categorized as having found In-Field employment; there is no cut-off period. Job Seekers can find employment In-Field and have their employment status upgraded at any time; there is no time limit.

Median salary and time-to-hire is reported for full-time, In-Field positions only; we don’t report these figures for Out-of-Field, contract positions, etc. If a program is retaken, employment data is tracked from the most recent graduation date.

It is not easy to graduate from Code Fellows. Success here requires grit, determination and tenacity. Only an estimated 50% of students who enter the program finish successfully and graduate.

This Alumni Employment Report was examined and validated by an independent 3rd party auditing firm; their report can be found here». Note that percentages may not sum to totals due to rounding.

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