Wow, thanks for showing me that. No, these guys are crooks. This is a new mutation of an old bootcamp scam. They've reworked it a little bit so it isn't so obvious they're breaking the law. You'll need some backstory:

These bootcamps emerged as a result of a large number of college students being unable to find work but having to pay back enormous students loans. The scams would offer you "free" training programs for "certifications" that don't come from any kind of accredited institution. This is the brainchild of some swindling recruiters who get bonuses for bringing people into the company if those people last two whole months. The contract you'd sign with these recruiters is that you'd lie your way into the job and "fake it 'til you make it" and if you were discovered as a phony and terminated this would cost your trainer/recruiter his substantial bonus so then he would sue you for the $10k+ cost of his so called training. This scam was being used to extort foreign laborers holding H1-B genius visas as ransom with threats of deportation and fresh-off-the-boat college graduates desperate enough for work that they'd take the $10k gamble on positions they weren't remotely qualified for.

People caught on and the scammers started charging $11k a pop for the so-called "training" up front.

Now they're charging companies $1k up front to hire these so-called "coders".

No, what i'm suggesting is entirely different. If anything training would come from actual universities and we'd be a non-profit so charging the hiring company $1k up front to hire someone would be out of the question and anything funding we would get would be restricted to charity only.