That would be the whole premise of bootcamps - train someone for 4 months and get them a junior software engineer job. Now, we can argue about how whether thes

That would be the whole premise of bootcamps - train someone for 4 months and get them a junior software engineer job. Now, we can argue about how whether these junior engineers are better or worse than CS grads. And a lot of these programs require you to have spent enough time on your own to be able to like write a fibonacci function. But the large number of people getting hired out of these programs does seem to indicate that switching careers into CS with less than a year of training is not unreasonable and maybe even normalized at this point.