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Are bootcamps still a thing in 2024?

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u/traintocode wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

> So just getting a great job out of a bootcamp isn't the end, but the base of a taller mountain. This has always been the case for everybody entering software engineering. If you treat getting your first SWE job as the end of a process you are set up to fail, it doesn't matter

u/michaelnovati replied ·
I completely agree, I just see bootcamp grads have a harder time than CS grads (specifically through my lends at better tech companies). It's always expected new grads need time (at a loss to the company) to grow into engineers with more impact. At Meta I saw how bootcamp grads took longer - so long that they stopped supporting bootcamps they had experimented with hiring from.