CS Grads who Also Did Bootcamps? Was it Worth It?

This question has been coming up a lot more often recently. I would suggest looking into interview prep and career accelerators instead of bootcamps. I'm the co-founder of Formation (.dev), which is one option, and other things to look into are Interview Kickstart, Outco, Pathrise, Scalar, Exponent, Coachable....a lot of very different options here! Specifically at Formation, 11% of engineers who got jobs in 2022 were CS grads with no experience, so it's a smaller case for us but a reasonable option. The idea is to work on bringing your fundamental skills to the top tier tech bar through adaptive practice, benchmarking, several sessions a week with senior engineers and tons of feedback, and mock interviews. All of these programs cost the same as a bootcamp but are much more useful IMO than doing a bootcamp. I work with all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds, many who did bootcamps way back when. Codesmith is a bootcamp with a super high entrance bar for both skills, intelligence and communication that claims to have 1/3 of people with a CS degree or related degree. So you can also look into that. I know many people who have gone there and people with CS degrees tend to be the top students and get good jobs, but they find the course material not super valuable, and find the community and environment very valuable.