2022 Bellevue Bootcamps

With a population just under 150,000 Bellevue, Washington is not the most well-known city in the U.S. However, it does have a few claims to fame. The small city houses some of the best public schools in the country, is bordered by two gorgeous lakes, and it is the birthplace of tech giant Amazon!

Back in 1994, in an otherwise unremarkable Bellevue garage, Jeff Bezos began Amazon as an online marketplace for books. Since then, Amazon has grown to be one of the most influential companies in the U.S. and Bellevue has blossomed from a relaxed Seattle suburb into a major center for tech.

Though it’s just a quick drive over a bridge to reach the Seattle skyscrapers, Bellevue also has its own downtown business district. Major institutions in the city include several Amazon outposts, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, the Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue College, and the Bellevue city government. Other top employers are the software company Smartsheet, T-Mobile, Paccar, Expedia, Talbot Financial, the bootcamp provider Coding Dojo, Eddie Bauer, and John L. Scott real estate.

In addition to this cohort of large companies, Bellevue is packed with small and mid-sized tech companies offering all sorts of innovative services and products. The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan area ranks third in most tech jobs per capita across the U.S. with 15% of the entire workforce employed in the tech industry. Start-ups headquartered out of Bellevue include software developer Apptio, authentication service provider Auth0, personal healthcare company Viome, app development platform AppSheet, ed-tech company DreamBox, and so many more that we can’t list them all! Check out the rest of the thriving Bellevue start-up scene on Zippia.

The Bellevue area is also featured in USA Today’s list of Most Innovative Cities. In 2019, Bellevue became one of 3 pilot cities for the Smart Cities Collaborative transit innovation program. It was chosen in part for its booming population, tech jobs growth, affinity of ridesharing, and the uniquely large size of its city blocks. Bellevue was also a first prize winner of Government Technology’s 2020 Digital City Award. Digital features that the city was commended for included the use of AI in analyzing relevant trends and its user-friendly digital resources available to residents during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a study of economic vitality and progress across 200 metropolitan areas in the U.S., the Milken Institute ranked the tri-city area of Seattle-Bellevue-Kent in the best performers of 2021. The mean family income in the city was an astounding $203,998 – more than double the national average.