AMA: Self-taught Staff SWE in Big Tech

Hi and thanks for sharing! I strongly encourage the apprenticeship @ big tech path and in my opinion it's the "ideal" path for ambitious bootcamp grads from the top bootcamps - because you get the ramp up and training needed to do well at the company - which clearly worked for you :D. But definitely a hard and competitive path and not a slam dunk. There's a bootcamp that pushes hard to create "mid-level and senior" engineers and discourages people from targeting apprenticeships in general. Question: If you were advising a super ambitious and hard working bootcamp grad on a path, how do you feel about apprenticeships vs the more "fake it until you make" strategy of over-marketing yourself to try to get into more experienced roles?