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My last memory of Lambda School was Austin blocking me on Twitter after asking him why every dev bootcamp grad I’ve ever hired is now on my product team.
by NoblePublius 5y ago
My last memory of Lambda School was Austin blocking me on Twitter after asking him why every dev bootcamp grad I’ve ever hired is now on my product team.
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoYou must have a big product team, or hire barely any bootcamp grads.
- NoblePublius 5y agoat the time I had 15 product managers, five of which had come to me as entry level developers out of Flat Iron and some course in Boston I can’t remember the name of. I had a Ruby dev bootcamp grad switch to my finance team as controller (he was also a CPA). He manages timber leases now.
- DangitBobby 5y agoCan you explain this to me?
- malwarebytess 5y agoThe implication being bootcamp grads can't into software engineering?
- NoblePublius 5y agoThe implication is that good developers don’t need bootcamps as much as potential product managers need them for crash courses on development fundamentals. I’ve lived this personally as an actual founder of a non profit dev bootcamp.
- aidaman 5y agoHow do you manage anyone with that level of lack of self awareness? Yea, of course prospective product managers will go to bootcamps to learn the technicals. And why would "good developers" go to a bootcamp? That would defeat the entire purpose. Think smarter. And if you actually think coding bootcamps don't work, just take a fking look at the alumni... https://www.linkedin.com/school/hack-reactor/people/ https://www.linkedin.com/school/hack-reactor/people/