As to the some of the negative opinions I'd like to ask how a graduate from a boot camp differs from a college intern? Typical bootcamps run 10+ weeks, in which

As to the some of the negative opinions I'd like to ask how a graduate from a boot camp differs from a college intern? Typical bootcamps run 10+ weeks, in which students basically do nothing but learn programming. Whereas your typical intern comes to you after maybe 2 years of college where they've done at best 7 or 8 programming classes, along with a lot of other liberal arts and gen ed classes. Those other classes can be quite valuable personally but at the end of the day likely affect the quality of the programmer you're getting very little. At my company we hire students from a few schools that require students do mandatory internships to graduate. The quality varies but honestly the breath of experience is probably the same. Except the bootcamp grads are probably somewhat older than the typical 20-22 yo interns we get. I obviously can't say for sure but I'd guess that the sheer number of hours put in by a bootcamp grad probably equals that of a mid year college student. The difference between interns and junior level employees are generally minuscule unless the junior dev has previous work experience anyway so if you're company is hiring interns anyway I don't see any reason why not to kick the tire on a few bootcamp grads.