u/b1e wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
For some reason Reddit recommended this subreddit to me. I’m a director at a FAANG adjacent company and spent my time before this as an EM at Netflix, Google, and prior to that was a staff IC. My own route was getting a PhD in a quantitative field but I realize that’s less trad
u/michaelnovati replied ·
\+1 to this, I tell this story all the time but I get pushback often.
Bootcamp grads have been exaggerating experience on paper to get through the funnels or get trained that they have "imposter syndrome" that's blocking them from getting a job, but once you start the job you are **lacking fundamentals** and you can't get those in 12 weeks and you can't hustle your way to make up for it.
If you are the cream of the crop bootcamp grad, you might be able to get by on your job through hustle, but you will eventually be limited by lacking the fundamentals - unless you learn them on your own on the job or on the side.