Just spoke with recruiters from four different major companies. They are filtering out bootcampers.

Sorry "trick" might be the wrong word, it's conscious but it's not bad intentioned, and people are repeatedly told not to lie. They are told so many times in so many places not to lie it makes you ask - why do they need to tell people this so much lol. Anyways, look at Codesmith project for example this one (I chose one randomly, I'm not calling our or identifying any individual people here): [https://www.linkedin.com/company/grpseek-app/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grpseek-app/) And look at how people who work on it present themselves on their LinkedIns. All of those people are recent Codesmith grads and gRPSeek was a 3 week long project. Most people present: 1. the project as 3-4 months of experience at a company 2. have their 3 other projects under "open source projects" to misdirect that the highlighted one is NOT an open source project - or else why wouldn't it also be under "open source projects" All of this is just part of 12 weeks of Codesmith and they are 1x 3 week project and 3x 1 week projects.