u/HidingImmortal wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
> NOT EVEN A JUNIOR LEVEL ROLE! Just to be clear, you had the expectation that you would be suited for a senior position after doing a bootcamp and no other experience? Junior level engineers are typically hired from a college. That is to say they did a four year program in C
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Great example here: [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/codesmith-llc\_programmer-coding-codingbootcamp-activity-7303912379589820416-c\_03](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/codesmith-llc_programmer-coding-codingbootcamp-activity-7303912379589820416-c_03)
"From conducting orchestras to software engineering"
1. The person's LinkedIn says they had 11 months of SWE experience prior to Codesmith and then 1.4 years of open source experience "software engineer" experience during Codesmith.
2. Then you read the blog post there and find out the person was an orchestra conductor with no experience prior to Codesmith
3. Then you ask a recruiter at Capital One that says to clear a background check for a "Senior Associate" role (which is not a Senior Software Engineer role there - which requires 4 years of experience), you need to have 2 years of verifiable SWE experience to get hired...
So something doesn't add up.
This person clearly has a stable and good job so maybe the ends justify the means, but this story is missing a lot of details about how it happened...
The blog post is telling you one story, but in reality this person had to fake 2 years of experience to get that job.