How do I get a better job?

Looking into a career accelerator. I'm the co-founder of Formation.dev, and other ones you should look into are Interview Kickstart, Pathrise, Outco, Scaler, Coachable. All of these programs are very different day-to-day and focus on different things, but they help people with step 2, 3, 4, etc... of your career. If you have a solid year of experience, you probably aren't missing any practical skills for big tech. Big tech expects to train you in their own stacks, which are so complicated even experienced engineers need training. You are probably missing the DS&A fundamentals, interview practice, system design, and behavioral training to talk about your 1 YOE effectively, and these are the things the above work on \^\^\^\^ If you can't stomach another $5 to $15K on a new program, then consider a la carte Interviewing.io sessions. If you are super lost, try to leverage your network, Discords, peers, to try to help figure out what you are missing.

For Formation, we don't typically take people directly after a bootcamp, but sometimes we do. It's a really hard market right now so we don't take people who are struggling to get a job and expect us to hand them a job. On the opposite end, if you graduate and immediately want a FAANG job, it's not an ideal time to join unless you have a very long time. The bootcampers we would consider taking right now are people that have a lot of time, want to fill in fundamental CS gaps that no bootcamp covers, and see the cost of the program as paying for that skill boost, and are aiming for the best job they can get in whatever the market is. We also have different capacity of different experience levels and as it takes longer for these engineers to get jobs, there are fewer slots. We don't have any behind the scenes deals or partnerships to feed you to companies. We have dozens of staff and mentors who work at top tier companies now or did in the past, and have clocked in years of experience there. Referrals often happen through getting to know people, finding an open position that's a great match, and having a person in the network you worked with refer you. We also have staff that talk to top tier companies regularly and in the past, we were always asked to send people over. In the current market, this happens like once a month, and many people sent over don't get calls because of specific things companies are looking for right now. Let me know if you have more questions. Of the above options, if you just graduated a bootcamp and want a job, I don't think any of them standout as the best one to choose in the current market.