As a hiring manager I've visited with a number of bootcamps in SF and the East Bay. They definitely vary in quality, intensity, and in the topics covered. I've

As a hiring manager I've visited with a number of bootcamps in SF and the East Bay. They definitely vary in quality, intensity, and in the topics covered. I've also made two hires from bootcamps. Neither were completely new to programming (which stood out in the interview process, compared to their classmates) but they'd both honed their skills during the bootcamp. Both are excellent, and while they required a lot of mentoring from senior colleagues initially they both work hard, are highly motivated, and have a strong desire to learn and prove themselves. Are they lacking in CS fundmentals? Yes, a little bit; they couldn't tell me what a good sorting algorithm is, they'd just call array.sort() to get the job done. Which is exactly what I'd do, even though I went through implementing quicksort, bubblesort, etc... in my CS degree. Would I hire them to develop novel algorithms? Probably not (though I wouldn't rule them out), but they can work an ORM pretty good, can reason through workflows, and build fairly complex web applications just fine. I think bootcamps can be a goldmine for hiring. You get to meet dozens of motivated, enthusiastic junior engineers at each hiring day.