From Almost Flunking Out of Bootcamp to $200k: My Journey and Encouragement for New Software Engineers

Well I'm bias because my company works with people later in their careers and I have a ton of opinions on this but you should evaluate them given my bias that people pay my company for mentorship and interview prep to help them level up their jobs. You can do this stuff without paying anyone though, it's just easier when you have dedicated experienced people advising you the whole way. 1. Develop a clear problem solving approach that you apply in real life and in interviews. We have one called "The Engineering Method" and you can develop a similar one. This approach helps you be s better problem solver but more practically, helps you pass coding interviews without doing 2000 Leetcode problems 2. Find the right company for you and the right TEAM at that company. This is probably the most important step. I see bootcamp grads jumping from job to job for increases in pay or because they aren't doing well at their current job, or because they want a higher sounding title. All not good reasons. You want to be in a role where the day to day fits into your life and the work you do leverages things you are good at. Practically you have to make compromises because you don't have 10 years of experience to be choosy, but you should understand the tradeoffs in choosing your next job instead of just taking the highest paying one. If you know those tradeoffs you can better manage your strategy for succeeding at the job. For example if you just don't like what the company is doing if everything else about the food is great, you can try to find a team at the company that aligns best with things you like more that might not be the product they build directly, like a payment operations team or something. You might have to start with a different team and work your way there over a year or two.