Zero to Deployed
in 12 Weeks.
No CS degree. No prior experience. No kidding.
A career-switching bootcamp for people who google "what is a div" on Monday and push production code before their student loan grace period ends.
847 graduates hired
avg. $94,000 first-year salary
You're not stuck because
you're not smart enough.
You're stuck because nobody handed you a structured path with real accountability and actual projects.
The Bartender
"You memorize 200 cocktail recipes and run mental math on tabs all night. You've been "learning to code" for two years but never shipped anything."
The Teacher
"You build curriculum, manage 30 humans, and grade until midnight. You're tired of explaining things and not building things."
The Analyst
"You automated your entire job in Excel. Your manager is impressed. You're bored. You know you should be the one writing the software."
61%
of career-switchers feel trapped by their salary ceiling
4.2yr
average time spent in a job you're overqualified for
$47k
median salary for roles with no clear growth path
92%
of Compile grads report higher job satisfaction within 6 months
Here's what changes that.
12 weeks. Real projects.
Nothing theoretical.
Every week ships something. By week 12 you have 7 deployed projects and a GitHub profile that speaks for itself.
HTML, CSS & the Box Model
Portfolio site — deployed to Netlify
JavaScript Fundamentals
Weather app hitting a live API
React & Component Architecture
Task manager with full CRUD UI
Node.js & REST APIs
Blog API with auth — 12 endpoints
Databases & SQL
E-commerce backend — real product data
Cloud & DevOps Basics
Containerized app — auto-deploy pipeline
Capstone & Job Prep
Solo product — pitched to hiring partners
Want all 48 pages — project specs, grading rubrics, tech stack rationale?
Includes week-by-week breakdowns, project rubrics, and hiring outcomes by cohort.
Before → After.
Real people. Real timelines.
Backend Engineer
Stripe · $112,000
Before
Bartender
After
Backend Engineer
6 years, 4 venues, memorized 300 cocktails
"I ran mental math on tabs every Saturday night. Turns out that's just logic. Compile gave me the vocabulary to call it engineering."
Marcus Webb
Cohort 4 · Hired 14 weeks after graduation
$112,000
first-year salary
Frontend Engineer
Notion · $98,000
Before
High School Teacher
After
Frontend Engineer
8 years, AP Computer Science (never coded)
"I taught kids how computers worked from a textbook. After Compile I built the tools. It's a different feeling entirely."
Priya Nair
Cohort 6 · Hired 11 weeks after graduation
$98,000
first-year salary
Full-Stack Engineer
Linear · $105,000
Before
Junior Analyst
After
Full-Stack Engineer
Automated 80% of his job in Excel, got promoted, still bored
"My manager called me a wizard. I told him wizards don't write Python loops — engineers do. I needed to be one."
Jordan Castillo
Cohort 5 · Hired 9 weeks after graduation
$105,000
first-year salary
Don't take our word for it.
Here's the data.
$94,000
Median First-Year Salary
across all cohorts
78%
Hired Within 90 Days
of graduates
120+
Hiring Partners
actively recruiting
+$47k
Avg Salary Increase
vs. pre-bootcamp role
Graduates hired at
Sit in. Ask anything.
No sales pitch.
Every Thursday at 7pm ET, a Compile instructor runs a live 90-minute session open to anyone. You'll build a working API from scratch. Real code, real questions, real instructors.
Next session: Thursday, Feb 26