Hi Harvey! My name is Kiren and I'm a student (and also a software engineer) at Holberton School. Just to be clear, we are NOT a bootcamp - we are a 2-year soft

Hi Harvey! My name is Kiren and I'm a student (and also a software engineer) at Holberton School. Just to be clear, we are NOT a bootcamp - we are a 2-year software engineering school. As downrightmike has said, any career is a marathon. There are a lot of students who come in with no prior experience and do get internships/jobs after the first year, but having had some self-taught experience creating low-fidelity iOS prototypes of an app I was working on before attending Holberton, I know that this won't be the case as we expand into other locations and markets. However, the people with no experience who have gotten jobs after the first year have consistently worked hard for that entire first year building on their basics. In addition, most people who do get jobs after the first year spend months interviewing and focusing on interview prep (algorithms, data structures, system design, etc.). Our application process has been awesome so far at accepting people who are undoubtedly smart and have a lot of grit. Even if we do have students of all ages who come in and get jobs after their first year, we firmly believe that it will take 2 years for students coming out of high school to become full-fledged software engineers. People shouldn't underestimate the work it takes to become a software engineer, and we certainly don't at Holberton. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with me @srinitude on every social media platform (including Github: https://github.com/srinitude https://github.com/srinitude). However, I'm most active on Twitter (https://twitter.com/srinitude https://twitter.com/srinitude).