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Just bombed a technical interview and I think my bootcamp failed me

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u/Accomplished-Tip7106 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Had my first real technical interview a week ago. It was for a junior frontend role. The interviewer shared a codesandbox and asked me to filter an array of user objects by age and return just the names. Not even a hard problem. I could literally SEE the answer in my head, like I

u/michaelnovati replied ·
I'm curious why you went to the bootcamp to begin with? Like what aspects made you join. I've been saying this for literally years on here but no matter what a bootcamp says about preparing you for interviews I just haven't seen one that actually does at the level needed. Some try really hard and they delusionally think they do, but they just don't. I work with people to prepare them for interviews and it takes months of dedicated practice just to prepare for the interviews alone. A couple of weeks and some mock interviews from recent graduates is laughably incomplete. Just a note that we don't work with people with less than 2 years of work experience post bootcamp now so I'm making a point and not selling anything.