u/michaelnovati replied ·
Your bootcamp credential is basically not being valued as anything :(
Bootcamp grads getting jobs are faking/exaggerating their work experience.
Imagine having your resume except since November 2023 - present you have a Software Engineer role listed on your resume with 5 extensive bullet points that sound like a job and at the very bottom says "Product accelerated by X Labs" to indicate that this isn't a job but something under some organization called X Labs that you google search and find out is a charity that supports open source projects.
Another option is if you work at your bootcamp after and you call it "Senior Software Engineer" work at some made up entity disconnected from the bootcamp so people don't connect the dots.
Even these strategies aren't faired well in 2024 and people need to have this fake experience on there for a year to even get traction for jobs :(
But the bootcamp that does all claims to have 60% placement rate within a year of graduating so of all the options it's still working to some degree.
People who lie their way into a job are signing a deal with the devil and selling their integrity to put food on the plate. You then have to keep the ruse going and not get caught and hustle hard on the job - even harder than the job hunt itself.
If you want to do it the honest way, apprenticeships were the ideal path, but a lot of paused, shrunk, or shut down this year :(