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I regularly interview bootcamp grads. They all come with the same impressive training, skill set and portfolio. I don't know how to differentiate between them.

by human77 11y ago

I regularly interview bootcamp grads. They all come with the same impressive training, skill set and portfolio. I don't know how to differentiate between them. Their performance in coding interviews is uniformly good (feels like they train for it) and they have no career history to judge them on. So on objective measures, they all look the same. Yet, I don't believe all bootcamp grads are equal. Like all junior devs in their first gig, some will excel and some will struggle (and some will completely fall off.) I try to dig into their background and personality to make an educated guess as to how they might do, but I'm guessing.

smt88 11y ago
> (feels like they train for it) They do.
- ubernostrum 11y ago
  It's almost as if the tech-interview process, supposedly designed to prove that someone actually has studied and internalized mystical knowledge about inverting trees, can be gamed with a bit of effort and actually isn't a reliable approach! (that said, bootcamp grads and other people who were self- or unconventionally-taught, in the sense that they don't have CS degree, do seem on average to be better than the people who have CS degrees, probably for the reasons the article gets at)