u/SlowestTriathlete wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
On the flip side, I was just in a final-round interview at a local tech company and I've been very up front about my experience. I talked about what we did, our open source project, was able to answer all their questions and talk about the tech. They were impressed - they liked t
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Is it possible that you are awesome and demonstrated both natural talent and a strong connection to the company?
I obviously can't speak to this experience, but I've worked with top bootcamp grads and top CS grads from MIT and Stanford and that statement doesn't apply at all when comparing the two.
A Stanford CS grad has about 300 hours across 6 core CS courses and then another 1000 hours in a dozen or two CS electives, then then have 3 FAANG internships on their resumes and leave with 5+ offers at FAANG companies.
This obviously isn't the typical CS degree and many of them are not like this. But saying the best bootcamp produces grads that are more experienced than a mediocre CS degree is more accurate. I would give Codesmith less of a hard time in this regard if they didn't market themselves as equivalent to an elite grad school and instead marketed themselves as the outcomes of a generic CS degree in 1/8th the time.
And I don't mean this in a cynical way at all, if you can go to a bootcamp for $20K and six months and do just as well as a mediocre school that costs $40K and 4 years, that is one heck of a business model and win win... and that's why I suggest going to Codesmith to many people.