u/Efficiu wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Please be perfectly aware so you aren’t in for a rude awakening: the “hard parts style” method that everyone loves in the free codesmith workshops is NOT an accurate reflection of the full time immersive itself. In fact there have been several disgruntled reviews for CS regardi
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Can you define "strong presence at FAANG"? I look at HR alumni in LinkedIn and see pages and pages of FAANG employees a few years down the road. I've found maybe two dozen Codesmith alumni at full time FAANG SWE positions.
Regarding salaries, not making this point about Codesmith or HR, but advice generally for those listening. If you want to make more money, your first salary out of bootcamp is very irrelevant in terms of you career income in tech. 90K apprenticeships at FAANG are infinitely better than a 120K job at a 100 person atartup with a team of 10 engineers. You'll be making way more money in just a couple of years. So judging just based on that the immediate salary alone is missing the forest for the trees.
Engineers at Facebook are not ranked by salary, and compensation varies by performance. A new grad with a $130K base salary will make between $140K and $300K based on their performance alone. Getting to that position within a year of doing an apprenticeship is much better than making 120K with no bonus or equity at an agency for example and taking two more job hops to get to FAANG.
The best bootcamp that deeply understood the industry would be the one setting people up for their best career trajectory and not focused on that salary number so much. That salary would only be relevant in choosing between two "3rd tier" companies.