u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Hi, I lived in Regina for four years so stopping by to say hello! I have an engineering degree, went to Facebook in the US out of school in 2009. I know a lot about American bootcamps, not so much about Canadian bootcamps, but I can try to help.
Since you have an CS masters you should be able to get a TN visa status and work anywhere in the US as an individual contributor engineer.
Another route could be working for "FAANG" in Canada first and transferring.
It's a bit of a wonky time to only target FAANG but it's certainly possible to get a FAANG job in the USA with a CS masters if you can get interviews and then pass the interviews (which are hard)
I wouldn't do a bootcamp at this point unless you basically forgot everything from school, I would look at more career accelerators (disclosure: I'm co-founder of Formation.dev which is one such thing) like Outco, Interview Kickstart, Scalar. You might get more out of these if you already have the fundamentals.
If you are comfortable sharing, why have you been unemployed? Is it by choice? and if not, what has been stopping you from getting a job?