Who should and shouldn't go to software engineering bootcamps (in 2025). No matter how good a bootcamp seems - or how much you want to do it, these things are DEAL BREAKERS you have to consider before even thinking about doing one.

A few reasons: \- For flag 7 - when it comes to exaggerating your experience, you'll commonly see things along the lines of. like a hotel marketing manager who ran their website -> "Web Developer". Mechanical Engineer -> "Systems Engineer". Accountant -> "Data Engineer". Account manager -> "Project Manager" For grads at places like Codesmith the vast majority reframe their non-technical experience as experience and it's a key part of the high outcomes in the past and if you can lie like this, you won't be getting those mid level jobs with zero experience that they love to advertise without telling you how it happens. If the job was at a big company and some kind of information-related job, this is a lot easier to do without completely flat out lying. \- If you don't want to lie to that degree and hope for the best, then more generally - there are more transferrable skills in "desk job"s than in hands on jobs. In the past I would say a plumber has to problem solve like crazy and that should be super applicable to SWE! But right now as you can see at places like Codesmith - emphasizing "communication" and the "empathy" if you've had a desk job where you are communicating project plans and working on product teams or running programs, etc... those skills are more directly transferable (and even required) in SWE jobs.