u/peppiminti wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
This is a terrible take Michael and you know it lol. Someone can definitely ramp up to become an SWE way faster than a Dentist. 12 weeks is obviously too short, but 2-3 years is definitely possible. People in my bootcamp all coded \~1 - 1.5yrs before bootcamp, \~3 months during
u/michaelnovati replied ·
My commentary is generally at the macro level and on an individual basis there are exceptions. For the 100K plus people who have done SWE bootcamps over 10 years I would guess than a quarter are still SWEs to this day. Half of them probably never got a SWE job to begin with and then many people pivoted out to like TPM or data engineer etc...
If you spray a hose at a hole in the wall, some water gets through but most doesn't.
This is like spraying a hose at a hole then for water getting through travelling another foot and getting through a slightly larger hole.
Someone watching this zoomed out would see someone spraying a wall and the water bouncing off.
In all fairness people getting any job in tech might be a step up form the previous job but it's like a Dentist bootcamp where many people get jobs in the dental field but they paid $22.5K to become a Dentist.