This isn't super common but an idea might be to get a job TEACHING AT A BOOTCAMP, trying to absorb as much as possible from the projects, or helping review projects. And then after a year or two try to transition to a teaching-engineering type role at a big tech company (they do have these but they are unique company to company) and then within that company try transitioning to SWE after settling in.
Just random ideas I thought of by giving my 2 cents candid reaction.
u/noa_karn wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Wife can’t program. Why would a bootcamp accept her as an instructor? Sounds like she needs to enroll in one
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You might be underestimating. Codesmith is arguably the top bootcamp in the world and every single instructor has no industry work experience and only went to Codesmith itself.
u/cool_core_down wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I didn’t get that impression:
https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/s/ORQAQJtMpc
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You can use the way back machine and see and see all their instructors. Even their chief instructor went to Codemsith (although hides that publicly).