u/jhkoenig wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
The general consensus of this sub: NO My direct experience as a hiring manager: NO People exercising confirmation bias: YES YES YES Right now there are thousands of laid off swe folks with BS degrees and solid experience at name companies. Competing against them with only a bo
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Sadly, +1 to this in the current market, you need 2 YOE in general to have a "standard job hunt" pipeline and under that is a bit of unreproducible wild west.
It's one of the reasons I jump on anyone posting a success story right now and framing it like anyone can do it. Anyone CAN IN THEORY do it, but there's no reproducible path to getting through with under 2 YOE right now.
I think really tiny bootcamps with a single cohort under 30 people that all get personalized help might be able to increase the odds of finding your edge case path, but again not scalable, not reproducible, a lot of 1-1 strategizing and a bit of luck.