u/BudgetSense8077 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I’m going to be 100% honest with you. If you are “a professional dev of 4 years” There’s nothing in a bootcamp that should be “intense” for you. JavaScript, React, React components, how asynchronous functions work with each other…… literally none of that should be “complicated”
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I can say that I had nothing to do with this post, nor did anyone at Formation, have no idea who the OP is and haven't talked to them on Reddit before, but what they say is pretty detailed and aligns with how the day to day is.
The OP didn't say Formation works on those things you mention.... we don't teach anything... we do pretty much as the OP said 'peer and group problem solving sessions'.
The bootcamp market has produced hundreds of thousands of engineers who - firehose style in 10 to 20 weeks - learned basic programming concepts and then have been learning practical skills on the job for a couple years and many hit a wall when trying to level up to top tech jobs because of being rusty, or never properly learning, more fundamental CS concepts.
There are thousands and thousands of people who feel this way and it's not unbelievable or something to shame someone about.