Hi! Can you talk more about being hired in with a senior title? (both the hiring process - what the interview process was like, was levelling openly discussed vs you had to hustle your way through the interview, etc..., and then also on the job - would you advise others do that path?)
You got a job REALLY fast in a REALLY hard time, so also generally curious how that happened. It's an anomaly and probably not reproducible, so more just curious on the story versus like advice for others.
u/BrooklynBillyGoat wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
This whole post seems fishy. Had a good buisiness left it to code and magically with theee months and parent responsibility's got to senior. Ima call bullshit
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Maybe I should have disclosed this, I don't think I need to speak for Callie either, but I know her a tiny bit outside of Reddit and she is very much legit.
u/BrooklynBillyGoat wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
This whole sub is bootcamp ads. This post seems equally fishy to me. It actually makes me more suspicious of OP.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Well I'm all for being more skeptical than not so I don't disagree with having that approach haha
u/person13524 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Hi Michael 👋🏻
Of course! I posted videos of my projects and code every day during my bootcamp to LinkedIn. So, by the end of bootcamp, I had quite a bit of visibility!
I was reached out to by a recruiter for my current company with a general description of the job: new produc
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Thanks for sharing ❤️!
u/dak78 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
First, huge congratulations on your amazing outcome! To get a role let alone a SENIOR role right now is remarkable. Thank you for being generous enough to hold an AMA.
\- As you were essentially headhunted -- would you have applied to senior engineering roles post bootcamp you
u/michaelnovatireplied·· edited
Hey, I just want to clarify (because I'm pretttty sure you are talking about me and if not, appoligies but this clarification still applies haha), but I staunchly believe anyone who comes from a bootcamp **with no prior SWE work experience** is not qualified for **mid level and senior roles at canonical big tech companies.**
I see and encourage many people to go to whatever titles they want at whatever jobs they want. In banking and finance titles are completely different. For example a "Vice President" at Goldman Sachs is an E5 - Senior at canonical big tech.
In Callie's case it sounds like a specific role at non-big tech company that was the perfect match for her, so I wouldn't discourage that at all!