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.

Depends on where. FAANG recruiters probably picked up both a strong network and some of the insider info of how engineering works to have a leg up. If you have a strong natural affinity to coding then you could make the switch. But it might take a very long time.and I would expect a number of steps to get there. The other path would be like recruiting at a hot AI company like OpenAI because there is a lot of room to step up and apply coding and AI tooling to the problem and it might be interesting work nonetheless.