I was speaking with a friend of mine who recently graduated med school about this topic. An insightful point he made was that with some careers, you need a lot

I was speaking with a friend of mine who recently graduated med school about this topic. An insightful point he made was that with some careers, you need a lot of education before you can start working, like being a doctor. In other areas you're able to be productive in a workplace with less "education" than you find in a university program. As a former bootcamp instructor, it has been amazing to watch the careers of some of my students. Bootcamps are more about setting up a student's learning trajectory than making them a computer scientist. I think most software developers would say that this is the kind of career which requires continuous improvement and learning, if you give a student the tools to learn and improve then you've set them up on a good path. Can you become a software engineer in 12 weeks? Probably not, but I've seen a good number of my students become fairly successful engineers within 1-2 years of completing the program I worked at.