u/GetPaid4Sitting wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
There’s always been a recruiter bias for bootcamp graduates. As someone with ~3 years of experience at a well-known company, I’m curious about how I can improve my resume for Meta Recruiting. Should I exclude my bootcamp creds and put instead, more technical bullet points from pr
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Hi 👋,
* 3 years of experience as a SWE should line you up nicely for an E4 Mid Level Meta SWE role. You can also consider their adjacent roles like Partner Engineer and Business Engineer if you get rejected from the normal E4 "Product Engineer", "Infrastructure Engineer" roles.
* There is absolutely a bias against bootcamp grads - I've seen it bluntly from close friends who are recruiters. And the reason is because bootcamp grads OVERALL don't perform as well on the job because they are behind in experience. It's not personal and not about potential.
* So I would probably exclude them and focus on your current job, the most important things are
* **1. SHOW CAREER PROGRESSION (if you got promoted, don't just list you highest title, but show the dates and show you progressed quickly up the later)**
* **2. IDEALY DON'T JOB HOP - staying at the same company and progressing is much better than job hopping a few times**
* So it sounds like you are probably setup to get into Meta pipelines without much effort and just brushing up your resume and applying + ping a recruiter, or getting referred.
* At Meta, if they recruiter talks to you, they are likely already moving you to technicals based on your resume, so the first step is a LeetCodes style technical interview:
* 1. Whiteboard style - practice **without compiling code** and using like a text editor.
* 2. Medium problems - not concepts like Dynamic Programming (which is banned there)
* 3. Focus on the problem solving process and communicating out loud while you practice.
* **No changes yet from AI as of 4/15/2025**