The entry level pipelines have always relied on the college recruiting system, which usually starts year 1 with internships and culminates in a big offer the summer before you graduate. Sure a bootcamp is more intense hours wise than school, but those internships are irreplaceable. CS grads without internships are finding it just as hard to get jobs.
But the simple one liner is that it's just impossible to rush education and bootcamp successes have relied on selecting for ambitious people that would do well in any industry. A number of bootcampers did their bootcamps just to make money but don't like programming, and I think those pope are "looked down on".
I work with a number of bootcamps grads later on and they spend way more time on average with us than they do at their bootcamps. It takes months and months to address many of the gaps.
u/Prestig33 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Can you give some examples of those gaps? I'm in a bootcamp now, but obviously want to make sure I address those gaps now versus later on.
u/michaelnovatireplied·· edited
If I were to generalize, which is not true in all cases, bootcamps are a firehouse of information and people whacamole concepts until they think they get it and then move on. I've worked with a number of grads from a top bootcamp that encourages daily algos, and people tend to rush through things and focus on getting an answer that passes LeetCode instead of actually understanding how things work.
Understanding how things work takes time and varies person to person in how that evolves.