u/michaelnovati replied · · edited
So there's a not so secret secret that bootcamps don't really effectively teach much in 12 weeks. They are intense environments for ambitious people to accelerate their progress from a year or more of self teaching down to 3 months, and to build confidence. People who are successful tend to have at least a few years of "experience" coming in, taking the form of a combination of self teaching; STEM degree; vaguely related work experience.
So for the right person, doing a bootcamp instead of college can work, but it's an edge case and likely someone who has been programming since they are 10 years old and maybe has done a bunch of open source contributions as a teenager. Or they are gifted in algorithms and won programming contests.
Quite honestly the best people I know in the industry didn't go to college or dropped out, but they are in the in the edge case bucket of humans.