Mechanical Engineer Is Bootcamp Worth It?

I'm in your camp on this one. When I interview these people it's apparent in minutes what's going on. There are two strategies: 1. Do this stuff to get the interview but tell the truth in the interview itself and hope the raw technical performance is good enough that they will give you a shot for "potential'. Like a smaller company. 2. Lie and hope to get away with it just one time even if the person typically gets caught. These people aren't getting jobs at good tech companies (it happens but very rarely, a fluke) so pulling one over at an agency in a non tech city where you might only be talking to an engineering manager who doesn't code. I've been studying this for years and at first why mind boggled too. The entry level market is so insane and bootcamp grads look the same on paper so people are doing this just to get noticed. The people who do this aren't bad engineering faking it. They generally have grit and ambition and it's why they are selling their souls to do it. In case it wasn't clear, my personal opinion is that this is super wrong and you shouldn't do it, and even if it does work it just perpetuates the problem. People might have individual reasons for doing this but they are harming all their bootcamp peers on doing so and have to live with that decision.