u/_redditouille wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I'd like to think I do. Understanding the workings of React was a good amount of the bootcamp actually. It sounds like you have a bad mindset in terms of bootcamps because perhaps some of them you're aware of don't go super in depth and just teach people high level stuff
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I would love to interview you and see how much of the "workings of React" you absorbed in a bootcamp.
I've interviewed a bunch of people from Codesmith one of the top bootcamps, with a Facebook-level technical behavioral interview, and within 5 mins their technical abilities fell apart, all of them.
What I observed was the people were learning how to appear to understand things for an interview but people didn't actually understand things the way they portrayed they did.
People would have been better off portraying less understanding and actually having that understanding than portraying a deeper understanding that they don't have.
It's nothing against bootcamps, it's just true expertise takes a lot of time, and takes different paths for everyone. A fixed length bootcamp where you absorb as much as you can in the allotted time just isn't an environment conducive to expertise and is instead an environment conducive to building super practical skills.