Hey, I'm ex-Meta 2009-2017 and welcome.
My recommendations of things to look into would be:
1. Meta has internal mentorship opportunities of different shapes and sizes. Helping out juniors from non traditional backgrounds and helping out on the Pathways team might be impactful. DM me if you don't know anyone there and I can give some suggestions of people to reach out to.
2. Do public mentorship. There are a number of ways you can mentor people at bootcamps, or 1-1 for free or paid and everything in between, and I have some recommendations there if you are cool telling me more about yourself. I highly recommend working with industry clubs/groups you might identify with.
3. Get involved with ERGs at Meta.
But yeah bootcamps are over for now. A couple are surviving doing their thing at a very small scale and with a small number of staff.
u/coding_for_lyf wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Does this include launch school?
u/michaelnovatireplied·★ FEATURED
Sorry I meant they are over industry trend wise not specific ones.
Launch School is possibly only the least impacted program of all. It's primarily run by the founder and Capstone was always one of the smallest programs so while its enrollment and outcomes have been impacted by the industry collapse it hasn't been on the same scale as others.
For example, they are running cohorts a little smaller than in the past but the same cadence. Whereas Codesmith has 3 upcoming cohorts right now and this time last year had 9 they were enrolling for, and quite frankly 3 is too many.
u/tenchuchoy wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I attended Lambda in 2019 and graduated in early 2020, going through the entire program. My instructors were incredible—they genuinely cared about their students and wanted us to succeed. Ultimately, it’s up to the individual to make the most of it. Coding bootcamps and software
u/michaelnovatireplied·
The problem Lambda School had was scale. Look at this chart when you graduated: [https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/1flwsaz/new\_wsj\_article\_about\_tech\_jobs\_shows\_one\_chart/](https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/1flwsaz/new_wsj_article_about_tech_jobs_shows_one_chart/)
Lambda School then 5X'd right as the market started crashing and their CEO kept marketing as if it was crushing it and everything was going great... eventually the market proved him wrong and the marketing was so far disconnected from reality that it got them into hot water.
Now they are indefinitely paused.
Some other bootcamps have shutdown, some have paused, and some keep telling the a good story like Lambda School did.
But no one can beat the market.