u/BurnsyMaan wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I would also say really depends on the company. Where I work, we take bootcamp grads all the time. We even partnered with a few boot camps to be feeder programs into our company. We still will obviously take college grads. But we have a rotation program we put the boot campers in
u/michaelnovati replied · DELETED · archived copy ★ FEATURED
That sounds awesome. I've been consistently saying for years that bootcamps are sufficient alone but apprenticeships (or any kind of supported on ramp) is the absolutely ideal job for bootcamp grads.
It takes some investment but its a way to get some really good people without paying $500K for a Stanford grad.
The problem I'm seeing right now is there are fewer bootcamps left and places like Codesmith where grads lie about their experience to sneak into more experienced roles, covering up the fact they went to a bootcamp. It completely breaks the system.
Imagine you hire five boot campers and they go through your rotation program and you unintentionally/unknowingly hire a codesmith grad as a mid-level engineer who is equally experienced as the boot campers, but is now in this weird spot where they're faking it all the time that they have experience. really the ideal would be that they would have been in the boot camp bucket with the others and I don't know why they so adamantly want their graduates to follow that path.