From Codesmith to FAANG

This is one of the reasons why I so adamantly believe that people need to get appropriate first jobs out of a boot camp. what that means is different for each person but getting an entry level FAANG job that pays not as high as potentially some other jobs achieved through exaggerating resumes and pushing really hard, can be the path rapidly accelerating your career. If Codesmith was really the ivy league like grad school for bootcamps they claim to be. they should be striving to place people in incredible entry-level rules that result in them making $600,000 in a few years and instead they are dismissive of those roles and pushing people to these exaggerated mid-level senior looking roles and pushing people to make the highest compensation they possibly can right out of the program. I think they know that this is pretty much impossible because they can't reliably get people these jobs because people without any experience can't just interview for entry level top tier jobs. Even in the boom times, only a handful of people were getting these jobs and it wasn't reproducible for any given graduate then, so this entire narrative is distorted and I'm really concerned about people going down the wrong path for the wrong reasons when they could be otherwise amazing on a more appropriate path. I'm soapboxing here because obviously everyone has their own complex life and circumstances and it's easy to talk on Reddit about this stuff and much harder to know one-on-one what the right thing to do is and what the right path is for you.