u/svix_ftw wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
The secret is that anyone who gets a job after a bootcamp was good enough to get a job without the bootcamp. I've hired and been hired many times in this industry. Bootcamp on your resume contributes literally nothing to getting a job. If anything HMs are more likely to trash
u/michaelnovati replied ·
This is true to some effect. It was always smoke and mirrors that 12 weeks could teach you any actual skills.
The bootcamps with the best outcomes selected for the best people with low self-confidence in their abilities, gave them self-confidence, and then they got placed.
But during the best times, bootcamps grads were the bottom of the barrel at big tech, a last resort .
Not that the bar is so much higher that's not enough anymore.
The bootcamps that figured this out have pivoted away from SWE bootcamps.