u/michaelnovati replied ·
Whether you like the criteria or not and whether it's gatekeeping or not, this is what everyone who has significant experience is telling you and I'm yelling loudly over and over **top tier CS schools are the primary path to entry level jobs right now!!** End of sentence.
If you want to career change then that's probably not an option so when you look at the next best thing, it's a massive range of:
1. 4+ years of experience = impossible
2. No job hoppers = you can show that in a previous career if you have tangential professional/technical experience
3. Significant experience at notable startups = maybe you can volunteer at one to get it on your resume?
4. **NO BOOTCAMP GRADS =** don't go to a bootcamp!
5. Fake profiles = if you went to a bootcamp **don't lie about your experience**
And that leaves pretty much no options if you are a career changer with zero experience and this is exaclty why there are no systematic paths for these people to get jobs right now.
Don't get too sad, bootcamp grads can get jobs right now, if you do, you are just going to have a one-off non reproducible path that won't work for everyone else, and you won't find advice on how to do it becasue you have to forge your own path.