Me too. It requires a massive leap of faith, and confidence in one’s own abilities to get through it to make it work.
That makes two of us. Both the people teaching the JS course has done it, and spoke highly of the experience (they would as they were now teaching for GA I guess). What’s more, both were employed as a result of it.
@callmenick is doing something similar at Hack Reactor at the moment, or maybe he’s already finished it by now.