Programming Bootcamp hasn't felt worth it, can I get away with not paying?

You can try negotiating with them. Don't offer zero but offer something reasonable for their time and take some responsibility for choosing to sign originally.

Good question and the short answer is that it depends on the company and the person. I have worked with a number of recent bootcamp grads for example and might suggest THREE different resumes to someone. If applying to a new grad job that accepts non-traditional programs, then I suggest putting the bootcamp loud and clear as Education, and listed course work and any grades in there. And then putting your projects and projects, or Open Source Contributions section for larger OSPs. If you are applying to a job requiring genuinely 2+ years work experience that does not appear to be a new grad job and could potentially be intended for an experienced engineer then I would try to highlight more work experience. For example, if your past career involved technical stuff in some way, working on highlighting that. If you have no relevant experience at all then you might not be qualified for the job, but I would try to highlight relevant project work as much as possible. Again possibly separating large Open Source Contributions from personal projects. If you were a TA or worked at the bootcamp after, I would also highlight that as work experience. This might also involve talking the most about the larger projects and filling out those sections. If you are applying for a more general "junior engineer" or "early career engineer" roles then somewhere in between. Possibly removing the bootcamp to avoid getting flagged as a bootcamp grad and filtered out automatically. I'm not against people optimizing their resumes for the specific job and highlighting different aspects more than others to come across in the best light. All I've been pointing out in my previous discussions on this topic is that one program specifically, Codesmith, in my observations of hundreds of resumes and profiles, tends to have way more people presenting the default case as hiding their bootcamp and exaggerating their 6 week group project as months of experience.