u/michaelnovati replied ·
There are a lot of active people on here from both Hack Reactor and Codemsith who have completed the programs in the past few months so hopefully they will chime in with direct experience. From my observations it's not good for bootcamp grads and new grads.
It's very easy to follow Codemsith OSP projects on LinkedIn and it's loud and clear when new releases come out. Keep in mind, 6 months from graduation is a long time for CIRR and GRAD... you have to look at graduates from June 2022 to get a fair, 6 months window. The hiring market was still okay back then. People who graduated in Nov/Dec have until spring to find a job to count as a placement.
I pulled up one project Svelvet on LinkedIn that has 18 employees listed. Of those, 2 had jobs listed. Now the people who finished in October still have a few months to find a job. Anyone who was a fellow at Codemsith has an extra 3 months on the clock. So even though 2 out of 18 sounds terrible you can't really judge anything until spring to see how it shakes out.
Now from my personal experiences, canonical FAANG is much harder to get interviews at as a zero experience engineer. There are little nooks and crannies here and there but it's hard. There are several top tier companies hiring that are approachable to zero experience, but very competitive. There are a bunch of very strong new grad engineers who had rescinded offers at FAANG or layoffs that are competing for those top jobs. Bootcamp grads can compete, but need to be stronger.
That said non-tech companies are hiring engineers more than ever and there are a lot of winners in bad economies that need engineers. Hedge funds and quant firms are chugging along. Usually after layoffs there is some hiring as well. So it takes more preparation, and understanding of the market to have a chance.
Maybe an analogy is going to a theme park on a super busy day. Most people who don't over prepare show up at busy times, wait forever, wait in the 60 min lines, etc... you might have a good time but you are kind of just doing your thing without a care. Whereas if you want to not wait on a busy day, you have to arrive a bit early, get your fast passes lined up and a route planned to hit the right rides at the right time. It takes a lot of preparation, experience, and trial and error to navigate that park without waiting in as many lines as the masses. But a busy theme park is a busy theme park and you'll probably have to wait a bit no matter what you do.