u/genX_rep wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I disagree. It's just supply and demand. Right now in this moment we have excess supply of programmers and decreased demand for programmers. So of course companies will take the cream of the crop instead of bootcamp grads. But it's just supply and demand.. when interest rat
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I mean ultimately it is. When you get to the bottom of the barrel (which is still exceptionally high at the top companies) then companies fan out to 2nd and 3rd tier colleges, bootcamps, more international schools that are costly to recruit from but have good people.
And then they return and build pipelines for the ones that work.
Failure of bootcamp grads to systematically perform well at companies is why no bootcamps has reliable FAANG pipelines... the typical grad hired just didn't perform well.... saw that first hand at Meta.
Which is one of the many reasons I'm here. It's crazy when people talk about the top bootcamps as if they are these ivy league schools, but in reality they are the lowest priority to recruit from.
The inconsistency tells me the industry is broken and hence why I'm here to try to connect the dots for people.