u/dialsoapbox wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Just curious what people are doing while looking for a dev role.
I'm back in school for mechatronics technician stuff while looking for a mechatronics tech (primarily plc/hmi programming - anything more indoors that in a noisy warehouse environment) role and/or a dev role.
u/michaelnovatireplied·★ FEATURED
Well if you become a freelancer or self employed.or go back to your old job, you'll count as a placement for your bootcamp and they'll be happy
Codesmith's 2024 California government data showed that of their placements about 2/3 were non responsive to report their salary and counted as a placement from LinkedIn, and a surge in "self employed" people this year too, and more "hired by school" than last year.
So it's kind of sad but if you get any kind of job the bootcamp is happy and you are kind of left for yourself.
u/dialsoapbox wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I don't understand how people can go into freelance work without any real experience. Especially with security/scaling and insurance.
About a year or so ago there was a guy i knew of from a meetup that ended up getting sued because he didn't have insurance did some kind of fuck
u/michaelnovatireplied·DELETED · archived copy
They say they are doing a 'startup' or 'freelance' on their LinkedIn to try to appear to ahve experience, and then the bootcamp counts it as a placement.
You can check them yourself, it's fucked up imo that the bootcamps count these and then say they have "audited results" where the auditor thinks that that is a placement too.
It's a tangent and I don't want to talk about it much because bringing attention to this gets me harassment, threats, and people going after me.